For just over a hundred dollars and in just two days, an American journalist managed to set up a fully automated political disinformation website, capable of publishing dozens of fake news stories a day. His experience sheds light on an issue that could prove particularly problematic during election campaigns.

Jack Brewster is a journalist, currently working at NewsGuard, a startup that provides tools to counter online misinformation. He recently demonstrated that it's possible to quickly and easily create a fully automated political disinformation website using the latest advances in artificial intelligence. He describes his experience in an article published in the Wall Street Journal, titled “How I Built an AI-Powered, Self-Running Propaganda Machine for US$105 (RM503.30)”.