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^ From the above article.
Q: You mentioned Trump, and you’ve probably heard the argument, or the concern, that fake news somehow helped him get elected. What do you make of that?
A: 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. Like, I made that up. I posted a fake ad on Craigslist.
Q: Why? I mean — why would you even write that?
A: Just ’cause his supporters were under the belief that people were getting paid to protest at their rallies, and that’s just insane. I’ve 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 they’d fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now he’s in the White House. Looking back, instead of hurting the campaign, I think I helped it. And that feels [bad].
So basically, because the vast majority of Trump supporters are borderline mentally handicapped and operate at a subnormal mental capacity, they believed everything written on Facebook and it helped vote Trump in. I think 99% of us believe that to be true and I believe we all know who (omg) will post some meme or response saying it isn't.
- "and that feels bad"
what.a.cunt.Bluejam - the idea of sharing an article as news, revealing some untold story makes the consumer feel important and has more value than the actual story is true or not.********
- I heard that lots of Trump supporters thought the fact-checking of the debates was just an attempt to deliberately make him look bad. A liberal conspiracy.Fax_Benson
- don't know if that's true but it sounds good.Fax_Benson
- everyone is looking so hard to find a reason for trumps win aside from the obvious failure of the left too get there shit together.Gnash
- keep believing that trump won because they're all stupid and you'll be stuck with him for 8 years.Gnash
- (ugh THEIR*)Gnash
- you had it right the first timemonospaced
- (my first post, Their instead of There)Gnash
- "and that feels bad"