started in fox newews and right wing radio. and the general narratives that are picked up by someone, a macedonian teenager who doesn t even live here can pick up and understand it won t get rid. bauause for the past ten years fox x news has been tellin us four basic stories about the world that are now kind of understood deeply. like at a gut level. by the mosos excuse me, msnbc e most watched cable news network in the country. yeah, that s true. that s true. although facebook, the crazy thing is that facebook now has a much bigger audience. and the aununt of traffic they re driving and p particular driving to like fox news is in one category, but like a literal fanta news website run by macedonian teens. you have to think about facecebook didn t teach anybody lili it didn t teacheoplee to be duped by or to want to whaer what fox news is like a
by macedonian teens. you have to think about facebook didn t teach anybody to lie. it didn t teach people to be duped by or to want to whaer what fox news is like a supersoaker, facebook is like a fire hose. so you ve got a cable network and they re spraying disinformation everywhere, then facebook comes along and they dump a reservoir on top of people. i think also a good question is sort of, okay, that s what s been done by mostly kind of right wing independent fake news and blogs. but why aren t progressives doing the same thing? and progressives are. i was just in the interaction today with upworthy, and their stuff is about feeling good. i mean, which is wonderful. but it s just not the same kind of knife fight that is going on on the right. that s part of what s interesting, too, is that the people, for instance, the macedonian teens, they don t care whether they re doing hillary clinton or donald trump stuff. they re just doing what works and the fact is that s w