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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsA Writer of Pro-Trump Fake News Just Told All In Eye-Opening Interview
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http://occupydemocrats.com/2016/11/17/pro-trump-fake-news-writer-just-told-eye-opening-interview/This past election was defined by the electorates engagement with social media and a rejection of mainstream news sources. The traditional sources of information were replaced by social-media based blogs, many of which offered news that was either vastly misleading or entirely false.Those fake news websites ended up having a significant effect on the public perception of the election, and one of the primary culprits has admitted that his hoaxes may have helped give President-elect Trump his shocking electoral college victory.
Paul Horner, the founder of the fake website abcnews.com.co, spoke to the Washington Post about the role his website played in misleading a gullible electorate and how Donald Trump supporters truly will believe anything.
Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore I mean, thats how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didnt care because theyd already accepted it. Its real scary. Ive never seen anything like it.
My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers dont fact-check anything theyll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist.
Why? I mean why would you even write that?
Just cause his supporters were under the belief that people were getting paid to protest at their rallies, and thats just insane. Ive gone to Trump protests trust me, no one needs to get paid to protest Trump. I just wanted to make fun of that insane belief, but it took off. They actually believed it.
I thought theyd fact-check it, and itd make them look worse. I mean thats how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out its false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now hes in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels bad.
My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers dont fact-check anything theyll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist.
Why? I mean why would you even write that?
Just cause his supporters were under the belief that people were getting paid to protest at their rallies, and thats just insane. Ive gone to Trump protests trust me, no one needs to get paid to protest Trump. I just wanted to make fun of that insane belief, but it took off. They actually believed it.
I thought theyd fact-check it, and itd make them look worse. I mean thats how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out its false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now hes in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels bad.
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A Writer of Pro-Trump Fake News Just Told All In Eye-Opening Interview (Original Post)
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
OP
you are misreading the title (they wrote it awkwardly) he was a writer of fake "pro Trump" news
Grey Lemercier
Nov 2016
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trotsky
(49,533 posts)1. And the GOP did a pre-emptive strike on fact checking sites long ago.
Several years ago I tried to correct a right-wing acquaintance by providing a link to Snopes. He responded by saying you can't trust anything on that site, it's run by liberals and funded by George Soros. WTF? No acknowledgment of facts. Willful ignorance with no way to counter it. I'm not sure what we can do.
tblue37
(65,342 posts)2. That writer is not pro-Trump. Even the excerpt you posted makes his opposition
to Trump clear.
Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)3. you are misreading the title (they wrote it awkwardly) he was a writer of fake "pro Trump" news
He hates Trump.
tblue37
(65,342 posts)4. The rule of modifiers is to guard against ambiguity. The positioning of the modifier "pro-Trump"
Causes it to modify "fake news writer. The subject line needs to be rewritten.
Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)5. I thought we couldn't alter titles?
tblue37
(65,342 posts)6. Only in LBN. nt
Grey Lemercier
(1,429 posts)7. ok, I will correct it
Roland99
(53,342 posts)8. I saw several people on FB post links to abcnews.com.co
I tried pointing out to them that it was a fake news site. Just look at the domain name!
They'd have nothing of it.
insanity.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)9. trump was another dumbass who believed the "fake news" was true. That's why he hates the real press.
never faces real reporters with real live questions in his entire life.