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In June 2016, social media users began spreading a report that a man had came forward and confessed to the news media that responded to a Craigslist ad and was paid $3,500 to protest at a March 2016 Donald Trump political rally in Arizona: There was no truth to this rumor, however. It was just a bit of fiction apparently originating with one of the many malware-spreading, clickbait fake news sites that illegally appropriate the trademarks of legitimate news organizations in order to drive traffic and thereby generate advertising revenues. One such site carries a disclaimer reading:
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