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This shows what it looks like in other countries.
This article is really interesting. So, essentially each of the "top publishers" are some sort of SEO ring with different websites, linking each other I guess, or at least writing the same thing, to make Google's scraper believe it is high quality content? Or something similar.
I don't understand the details really, but I have suspected something similar a long time.
Yeah here's a very detailed report on what's been going on written by a friend of mine.