But what was their motive . And better than beyonce . . Okay ladies . The surprising Instagram Account ranked in Rolling Stones top five. Even lining up in formation ahead of queen bey. Wait till you see the pictures. First the nightline 5. That cough doesnt sound so good. I think you sound great, move over. Ease, booger man. Mucinex will take care of your co one pill lasts 12 hours, so. Looks like im good all night. David, please, listen still not coughing . Not fair, you guys. Waffles are my favorite some cough medicines only last four hours. One mucinex lasts 12 hours. Start the relief, ditch the miz misery, lets end this. Good evening. Thanks for joining us. Tonight we take you to surprising sources of fake news stories which spread faster than real ones during the month leading up to the election. The maxim says, a lie has no legs. But on social media, a lie can often have wings. With the help of users eager to share articles confirming their political views. So just how damaging are these behind them . We track down the truth behind the lies. What was your reaction when you saw bucket of losers trending . I freaked out. Reporter it would have been the scoop of a lifetime. A secret transcript of a Hillary Clinton speech made inside a Goldman Sachs board room. She called sanders voters or whatever a bucket of losers, a play on the basket of deplorables. Reporter the story went bucket of losers she refers to. She called sanders supporters a bucket of losers. The bucket of losers document, its strangelooking. Reporter strangelooking because the whole thing was totally made up. By this man. Marco jacon. My hands were shaking. Like, this is ridiculous. I was thinking that it had gone way too far. That was apparently a doctored quote and not real. We apologize for that error. Reporter his site, realtruene news headlines. In one of the most contentious elections in modern history, sensationalized and at times flatout fake news amplifying partisan rancor across the country. Pope francis shocks the world, endorses donald trump for president fake. Fbi agents suspected in hillarys em mail leak found dead from apparent murder suicide from the denver established media brands are built on accuracy. Some rogue websites masquerading as legitimate are reporting misinformation and its spreading like wildlife online. President obama urged common sense. If we cant discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems. Reporter buzzfeeds craig sil silverman has been tracking fake news on the internet for these websites when did it go big . This year. 2016, incomparable to any other years. One of the big factors you cant ignore is donald trump. He generated a huge amount of online excitement. A lot of engagement on facebook. Reporter buzzfeed uncovered an unlikely breeding ground for some of the fake news sites. More than 100 websites in one small town in central macedonia. Reporter thats right, depressed city of 45,000, the rust belt of the former yugoslavia. Used to have an industrial economy, that has gone away, and theres a lot of young people there. Its a by for them to earn extra money, a way for them to find something to do. Reporter we decided to go to macedonia to see for ourselves. Some of the websites creators are speaking out in shadow for the first time on television. People found politics is a great field by accident. I have like 7. There is no protection from news, like theyll find a way to spread. Reporter most are not political, their only allegiance is to making money. Each click of an ad on their site means cash in their pocket. Basically the past three months i made my parents whole life salary. Reporter at first they blogged about cars, liberal online. Until they struck internet gold. You write trump, the whole people are trying to read something that hillary make like some bad things, like email scandal, wikileaks. You start writing and people start opening the posts and read about it. Start resharing. People from the states are watching your website, clicking on the banners, and youre making the money. It was like overnight. Is it overstating it to say all this fake news and the echo chamber that supported it had an impact on the election . I think its impossible to know what the impact is of this stuff. But theres no question that when, for example, we looked at the top 20 fake news stories about the election and compared them to the top 20 election stories from 19 major media outlets, the fake news ones got more engagement on facebook. Reporter two days after trumps victory, facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg social network had an impact. The idea that fake news influenced the election in any way i think is a pretty crazy idea. Reporter but a recent pew poll found 62 of American Adults get news on social media, with facebook leading the pack by far. Nearly twothirds of its users getting news from the site. Its a fact these young entrepreneurs were banking on. See how many people are opening the posts, like six facebook, social traffic, like 90 of the traffic is from facebook. Facebook drives the traffic that helps them make money. Reporter the guys in macedonia are quick to argue that their sites are not fake news. First, i dont agree that the sites are fake. Maybe some of them have fake stories. But not a lot. Reporter but some go further. Everything in sight. You need to have a good headline for your story to be successful. A headline you made yourself . Yeah. Can you show us a headline . Boom, rush reveals michelles perverted past after she dumps on trump. This is the headline. What was the original headline . Rush reveals michelles past. Reporter but those sites theyre lifting from, not exactly pulitzer prizewinning. This is the site we take the western journalism . Yes. Conservative tribute, this is the federal paper. Its really easy to make something up. The amount of effort, actually, to create something that gets a huge amount of attention on facebook and can earn thousands and thousands of dollars, is minimal. Reporter but after scoffing at the notion that fake news on facebook had an impact, zuckerberg now seems to recognize there might be a problem writing, the bottom line seriously, we take this responsibility seriously. Weve made significant progress but there is more work to be done. Facebook is the platform where this stuff is taking off and going viral. And if facebook simply walks away and washes its hands of the whole thing, its only going to get worse. Reporter but the biggest game changer could lie in eliminating the profit motive. Basically, i have my bank account connected to my Google Adsense account. And the payments are sent to my bank account. So in a way we are working for google. O said google would take 70 , hed get 30 . Google is making money off fake news, a huge network adsense, you can put adsense ads on any website. Google is the 800pound gorilla when it comes to online advertising. Reporter in a statement google telling us as of early last week, they now prohibit google ads from being placed on misrepresentative content, adding, moving forward we will conceal information. While many of those sites were a sweet spot for cash, marco chicon says for him it was never about money. The number of hits in terms of advertising, i may have had 200 on the site. What were you thinking when you posted some of these articles . The only way i could think of to have conversation with these people was to say, if you got a piece of crazy fake news, i got one too. And its even crazier, its absurd. Reporter absurd pieces. Like dr. Ben carsons call for r or obama ordering isis to take out trump. All, of course, false. Why put what could potentially be misconstrued as true out there . Because lot of people would say you poisoned the well. They might say that. This is a parody. Theres real news, abc. Co that looks like abc, designed to look real. Yet people ate it up as if it like abc news. Its run by a guy in arizona named paul horner, who considers himself i think a hoax artist. The crazy thing about this particular site is one of Donald Trumps kids and his campaign manager, kellyanne conway, both shared at least one story from this fake site during the campaign. Reporter he showed me some of his stories online. This is a madeup conversation. Its meant to be funny. The byline here is max insider. Reporter separating fact mistrust of Mainstream Media is at an alltime high. When the president elect will say the only reason Hillary Clinton has won the popular vote is because of millions voting illegally, which is completely not true, i think that gives license to folks to be loose with the truth and for people to make things up. Reporter when our social media feed, designed to mirror our own opinions, only confirming our biases. So when you give a customer what they want . They end up drowning in to the exclusion of anything else. A mother reported an ducted and missing for weeks, found alive. The hunt for her captors. From leaving me at a higher risk of stroke. Thatd be devastating. I took warfarin for over 15 years until i learned more about oncedaily xarelto. A latest generation blood thinner. Then i made the switch. Xarelto . Significantly lowers the risk of stroke in people with afib not caused by a heart valve problem. Warfarin interferes with vitamin k and at least six blood clotting factors. Xarelto . 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She could have been assaulted, hit by her abductors. Reporter the Shasta CountySheriffs Office is leading the investigation and delving into her past. Do you believe mrs. Papinis story . Absolutely. Reporter tonight were learning authorities will interview her again to see if she can offer any more clues to help them close the case. We do want her to feel at peace and being able to provide us with additional information. As less traumatized and as comfortable as possible. Because this is not an interrogation. This is really sort of a therapeutic interview to get to a lot of details that could potentially help them solve this case. Reporter it was dark just like this when Sherry Papini told authorities her captors dropped her off there behind me, 150 miles from her home on thanksgiving day. Authorities say she was bound with restraints but was able to flag down a passing driver. Other drivers nowhere. Frantically waving what looked like a shirt up and down. Reporter Alison Sutton was driving down this dark yolo county road when she says she passed papini and called 911. She pretty much just came out of nowhere. It startled me. But i figured, you know, if somebody was desperate enough for help that they were willing to be so close to traffic that they might get hit, that they didnt know who the woman was. I do feel like i got to be a witness to a small miracle. Reporter papini was treated and released from a local hospital and reunited with husband keith. Its unknown if shes seen her children yet. Authorities say when they first interviewed her, papin. Was terrified and offered few details about her captors. Two women apparently dropped her off. But its unclear what their role might be. Reporter papine, vanished november 2nd after going out for a run. Her husband keith called 911 when he came home from work to an empty house. Im coming, honey. Im trying. Im doing everything i can. And i love you. Reporter pleading for his wifes safe return. Bring her home. Bring her home. Just bring her home. Reporter keith instantly he located sherris cell phone on the side of the road. Strands of her hear tangled in her earbuds. Keith passing a polygraph test, ruling him out early as a suspect. It wasnt a feeling like of relief. I just want my wife back. Reporter authorities examining all angles including if papini had left on her own, some asking could this be playing out like a scene from the movie gone girl . To fake aon a 50,000 reward for any information. Investigators are analyzing papinis restraints and clothing for dna evidence and sifting through Surveillance Data including camera footage and cell phone records. The Shasta CountySheriffs Office is looking into papinis past, her former marriage and divorce, and her online activity. Have you spoken with her exhusband . I have not. But my investigators have. What of this they learned investigating, i cant share that information. Reporter this alleged abduction comes after two prominent cases of women who were found dead this summer while out running alone. 27yearold vanessa marcot in princeton, massachusetts. A week prior, Karina Vetrano of queens, new york. If youre a woman, just dont go run alone. You need to run in pairs or more than two. It can all be women but run in a group. Reporter after three weeks missing, is papini will get back to her normal life. It takes a long time, typically, for people who have been traumatized to this extent, and its not going to happen overnight. Reporter for nightline, im Kayna Whitworth in redding, california. Next, why the tsa Instagram Account ranked higher than beyonces. The answer may take your shoes. here it is. . . Hey dad . Wishes do come true. The lincoln wish list sales event is on. Get exceptional offers on the lincoln family of luxury vehicles. Sign and drive off in a new 2017 lincoln mkc with zero down and a complimentary first months payment. 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Beyonce may have more than 89 million instagram followers. But according to Rolling Stone magazine theres a hot new instagram that already has Users Falling into formation. Tsa ranked number four on Rolling Stones list of 100 best Instagram Accounts between queen bey and rihanna. Tsa advising passengers with witty posts on what you can and cannot bring on board. From a knife tucked in an enchilada, to a set of spears made famouspy the teenage mutant ninja turtles, making it clear even action figure weapons wont fly. Jimmy kimmel if you have a battery, leave it at home with your mother. Reporter tsa inviting travelers to ask if their sometimes unusual items are safe that began of gefilte fish . A serious agency finding a little humor goes a long way. Especially when youre waiting in endless lines. Of course, some things are worth the wait. Thanks for watching abc news. As always, were online at abcnews. Com and our Nightline Facebook page. Good night, america. Tom a daycare now under investigation after a child wanders off. Where the threeyearold was found. The death of a berlin toddler ruled a homicide. With the Attorney Generals Office is saying about the a wintry mix moves in. How it could impact the morning commute. It is a great christmas. Answer our prayers. Tom a Community Comes together for a family in windham. The special get a receipt for christmas. No one covers New Hampshire like we do. Now, wmur news 9 tonight. Tom 11 00 on this monday we begin with weather tonight. , after a beautiful day, tomorrow mornings commute could be slick with the chance of a wintry mix possible. Good evening. Im tom griffith. So when is it expected to start . Lets go right to chief meteorologist mike haddad the timeline. Mike and it is a tricky timeline. Like precipitation in the form of freezing rain and pockets of what snow to the north will