Complex sentence: Fraudulent articles grew popular through social media sharing sites during the 2016 presidential election in the United States, and a significant amount of the deceptive pieces were written by teenagers operating out of a small town in the country of Macedonia.
Split into simpler sentences: Fraudulent articles grew popular through social media sharing sites during the 2016 presidential election in the United States. A significant amount of the deceptive pieces were written by teenagers operating out of a small town in the country of Macedonia.