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Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me’; "Honestly, people are definitely dumber."
Topic Started: Nov 17 2016, 01:17 PM (130 Views)
BuckFan

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/facebook-fake-news-writer-%E2%80%98i-think-donald-trump-is-in-the-white-house-because-of-me%E2%80%99/ar-AAkprvV

What do the Amish lobby, gay wedding vans and the ban of the national anthem have in common? For starters, they’re all make-believe — and invented by the same man.

Paul Horner, the 38-year-old impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire, has made his living off viral news hoaxes for several years. He has twice convinced the Internet that he’s British graffiti artist Banksy; he also published the very viral, very fake news of a Yelp vs. “South Park” lawsuit last year.

But in recent months, Horner has found the fake-news ecosystem growing more crowded, more political and vastly more influential: In March, Donald Trump’s son Eric and his then-campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, even tweeted links to one of Horner’s faux-articles. His stories have also appeared as news on Google.
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Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s 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 didn’t care because they’d already accepted it. It’s real scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.
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BuckFan
Nov 17 2016, 01:17 PM
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Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s 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 didn’t care because they’d already accepted it. It’s real scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.
The "real" media was rendered I'motenf to correct it. Cry me a river
Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary.
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The essence of politics is to tell people what you think they want to hear............. :)
Jesus can raise the dead, but he can't fix stupid
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Harambe4Trump
Nov 17 2016, 01:20 PM
BuckFan
Nov 17 2016, 01:17 PM
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Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s 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 didn’t care because they’d already accepted it. It’s real scary. I’ve never seen anything like it.
The "real" media was rendered I'motenf to correct it. Cry me a river
You are one of the people that this guy makes his money off of and it talking about.
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