Trump is your dangerously gullible uncle on Facebook [View all]
Trump spreads conspiracy theories all the time. But last night, he went too far even for Laura Ingraham.
He claimed shadowy figures are controlling Joe Biden and sending black-clad Antifa on planes to wreak havoc. When pressed for details, he said it's "under investigation."
The fake story was born on Facebook, which has become the go-to venue for terrified suburban boomers pushing conspiracy theories.
Donald Trump famously, proudly, does not like to read. He does, however, "hear" things all the time.
He frequently hears "a lot of people saying" ridiculous, incendiary, and patently false things, many of which can be traced to far-right message boards.
From there, such conspiratorial lies often migrate to the cursed social media website which replaced the paranoid chain email for terrified suburban boomers: Facebook. At that point, it's only a matter of time before they reach America's conspiracy-theorist-in-chief, Trump.
In an interview in his Fox News safe space with superfan Laura Ingraham Monday night, the president appeared to parrot a particularly stupid Facebook-driven story, one so wild that even Ingraham warned him that it sounded like a "conspiracy theory.
https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-dangerously-gullible-uncle-facebook-antifa-conspiracy-theory-2020-9
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