The Shill

There's a chap called Ron Howells who posts items from The Euro Weekly News on various Facebook pages. While Ron lives, according to his profile, in Málaga, he often posts on sites based in other parts of Spain - either (if one is kind) in an effort to inform readers, or otherwise (if one is not) to promote the slightly absurd English-language expat free newspaper and its worried clutch of advertisers. 

While these sites are welcome to carry his promotions for the EWN, they may not be aware of the scope of Ron's endeavours. He is currently 'liking' 498 sites according to his profile. While we don't know how many Facebook pages based in expat Spain he is a member of, we can be certain that  they are all regularly assaulted with EWN posts from Ron, often with subject-matter which has nothing to do with this country. Indeed, looking at his page, it seems clear that he rarely posts anything else.

This might suggest that he is in the pay of the EWN and that his job is to promote their business, and - who knows - even anonymously write their copy. 

I wonder, are there others like him out there in cyberspace?

Later: well, I've found one - he's called Ian Platt and he posts articles from the highly peculiar Global247News in a number of expat Facebook pages. Unlike Ron, above, Ian lives in Benidorm, and drops 'items' in (at least) several sites based in Andalucía.