There was a black minivan in the driveway and a large prominent American flag. His home had an unwatered lawn - probably the result of California's ongoing drought.
Coler lived in a middle-class neighborhood of pastel-colored one-story beach bungalows. On a warm, sunny afternoon I set out with a producer for a suburb of Los Angeles. And, using his name, we found a home address. Coler's LinkedIn profile said he once sold magazine subscriptions, worked as a database administrator and as a freelance writer for among others, International Yachtsman magazine. Online, Coler was listed as the founder and CEO of a company called Disinfomedia. Jansen found an email address on one of those sites and was able to link that address to a name: Jestin Coler. That meant they were all very likely owned by the same company.
All the addresses linked to a single rented server inside Amazon Web Services. "I was able to track that through to a bunch of other sites which are where that handle is also present." "That was sort of the thread that started to unravel everything," Jansen says. Jestin Coler, publisher of fake news sites
The whole idea from the start was to build a site that could kind of infiltrate the echo chambers of the alt-right, publish blatantly or fictional stories and then be able to publicly denounce those stories and point out the fact that they were fiction.
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