How fake stories about IRS stimulus checks took over the internet

Web domains are being retooled for the sole purpose of spreading questionable news about government handouts, lately ending up as trending searches on Google.

Sketchy news websites are flooding the internet with bogus stories about stimulus checks and other government handouts in a growing scheme that has catapulted blatant misinformation to the top of Google’s trending search topics at least three times in the past two weeks.