What no one seems to get about the alt-right is that almost no one actually believes the content of alt-truth “news stories.” Not many people are delusional enough to subscribe to the theory that Hillary Clinton died smuggling millions of George Soros-funded ISIS refugees from the migrant caravan across the Rio Grande so they could vote in the midterm elections.
This drivel is popular because cheerleading nationalist conservative principles has evolved into a fandom. Stories titled “Iowa Farmer Claims Bill Clinton had Sex with Cow during ‘Cocaine Party” are the fanfiction of the alt-right movement, full of massive exaggerations and fantastical plots that most people know don’t literally represent the current canon or reality. Instead, these stories reinforce themes they already believe to be true, or wish were true.
Lies aren’t becoming truth online: they’re becoming the casual entertainment of people who hate progressive values.
‘Nothing on this page is real’: How lies become truth in online America
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