Scary
“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.”
—Paul
Horner, professional Facebook hoaxer and fake news producer, in Caitlin Dewey,
“Facebook fake-news writer: ‘I think Donald Trump is in the White House because of me,’” The Washington Post, Nov.
17, 2016.
• Editorial Comment: Fact-check. It ain’t rocket science.
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