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Paul Horner, makes a great deal of money operating a network of viral fake-news sites. He fears his satirical news pieces might have helped get Trump elected, and it saddens him knowing the severe damage Trump and the Republican controlled will cause the U.S. and its people.
Horner believes that fake news has reached a whole new level during the rise of Trump, and said in an interview, "It's real scary, I've never seen anything like it."
Horner went on to explain, "My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don't fact-check anything — they'll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist."
Horner is indeed correct, Trump’s followers have proven they will post, as fact, every lie, rumor, accusation, etc. they find that justifies their blind support of The Donald. At the same time they will refuse to accept anything that contradicts or refutes the lies they hear on FOX Noise, etc., see on social media, or read on right wing blogs.
Research by Buzzfeed in early November found that “top fake-news stories on Facebook outperformed legitimate news stories shared by some of the most popular media companies.” Meaning, the Trump-bots much preferred the rumors, lies, and tall-tales they read in social media to that of sources that fact-check stories and weed out inaccuracies.
The GOP spent decades cultivating this gullible behavior by their voting base and has depended on their willing ignorance for years. Republican leaders were dumbfounded when Trump discovered, and then exploited, the right-wingers’ idiocy to a level even the top men in the GOP thought was impossible.
Since November 8, people in the rest of the western world are continuing to express their amazement and disgust at the stupidity of the United States’ conservatives, Donald Trump, the members of his transition team, and his proposed cabinet.
Fake-news writer claims he helped get Donald Trump elected
.
Paul Horner, makes a great deal of money operating a network of viral fake-news sites. He fears his satirical news pieces might have helped get Trump elected, and it saddens him knowing the severe damage Trump and the Republican controlled will cause the U.S. and its people.
Horner believes that fake news has reached a whole new level during the rise of Trump, and said in an interview, "It's real scary, I've never seen anything like it."
Horner went on to explain, "My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don't fact-check anything — they'll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist."
Horner is indeed correct, Trump’s followers have proven they will post, as fact, every lie, rumor, accusation, etc. they find that justifies their blind support of The Donald. At the same time they will refuse to accept anything that contradicts or refutes the lies they hear on FOX Noise, etc., see on social media, or read on right wing blogs.
Research by Buzzfeed in early November found that “top fake-news stories on Facebook outperformed legitimate news stories shared by some of the most popular media companies.” Meaning, the Trump-bots much preferred the rumors, lies, and tall-tales they read in social media to that of sources that fact-check stories and weed out inaccuracies.
The GOP spent decades cultivating this gullible behavior by their voting base and has depended on their willing ignorance for years. Republican leaders were dumbfounded when Trump discovered, and then exploited, the right-wingers’ idiocy to a level even the top men in the GOP thought was impossible.
Since November 8, people in the rest of the western world are continuing to express their amazement and disgust at the stupidity of the United States’ conservatives, Donald Trump, the members of his transition team, and his proposed cabinet.
Fake-news writer claims he helped get Donald Trump elected
.