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An organization that produces content farm sites.

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“The crux of the hostile narrative was that Demand⟳ Media was a “content mill.” An article in Wired magazine actually triggered the drama by comparing Demand⟳ Media's system to Henry Ford's production line for cars in the early twentieth century.”

“Think⟳ of the content mill as a modern-day literary sweatshop—writers hunkering down at hot keyboards, plowing away at 3,000 word articles for, literally, pennies. Content mills were born because someone figured out that by targeting popular search⟳ result⟳ terms, they could commission an army of crappy posts catering to these terms and dominate Google's results.”

“One night in early 2019, Magana and Alvarado went to a party at a gaudy, largely unfurnished Los Angeles mansion, the sort⟳ of place⟳ rented by packs of influencers to use⟳ as content mills.”

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