2. If you hovered your mouse over her name, up popped a story claiming that Kelly had been “kicked out” of Fox News “for backing Hillary.” The story was from a site called EndingTheFed.com — and it’s false.

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EndingTheFed.com was EndingTheFed.com was anonymously registered by its current owner in March of this year. The site has grown quickly thanks to a strategy of publishing aggressively pro-Trump, right wing stories. Even more notable is that the majority of its recent stories are simply taken word-for-word from other right-wing sites.

That means Facebook, the largest social network on the planet, actively promoted a fake story from a website that basically exists to republish other, often dubious, posts from fringe sites on the conservative web.

It’s unclear whether Ending The Fed has permission to republish content from other sites, or if it’s committing mass plagiarism. BuzzFeed News contacted the site but has not heard back. Facebook declined to comment on the record about how the story made it to the Trending Topics list.