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yallerdawg

(16,104 posts)
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 09:13 AM Jun 2018

Trump, Fox News, and Twitter have created a dangerous conspiracy theory loop

The president tweeted literal “fake news” about the so-called “Spygate” controversy. The story behind the tweet is revealing — and scary.

Source: Vox, by Zack Beauchamp

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“Strzok-Page, the incompetent & corrupt FBI lovers, have texts referring to a counter-intelligence operation into the Trump Campaign dating way back to December, 2015,” the president wrote. “SPYGATE is in full force!”

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The problem is that, as far as we know, none of those texts mentioned anything about there being a counterintelligence operation against the Trump campaign as early as December 2015. So where the hell did the president come up with that idea?

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So what happened, it seems, is that a conspiratorial interpretation of texts between two FBI employees, one entirely unfounded in the actual evidence, got laundered from the fringe right-wing media to the right-wing mainstream through Fox News personalities — and eventually reached up to a member of Congress and the president of the United States.

This says something profound about the way the country is broken today — about how Trump and the conservative media have combined forces to warp the way millions of Americans understand the world around them.

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Read it all and much more at: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/6/17433876/trump-spygate-fox-twitter


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Trump, Fox News, and Twitter have created a dangerous conspiracy theory loop (Original Post) yallerdawg Jun 2018 OP
all this bullshit noise feeds the trump supporters and really no one else beachbum bob Jun 2018 #1
 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
1. all this bullshit noise feeds the trump supporters and really no one else
Thu Jun 7, 2018, 09:23 AM
Jun 2018

keeps verifying that trump hates america as we know it and why we must take our country back

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