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Almost no one actually believes Fake News. So what's the problem?
The statistics are shocking. A Russian troll farm created false anti-Clinton stories and distributed them on platforms like Facebook and Twitter. As many as 126 million Facebook users may have encountered at least one piece of Russian propaganda; Russian tweets received as many as 288 million views. The Russians, just like Trump's campaign itself, leveraged the adtech infrastructure developed by social media companies like Facebook, Google, and Twitter to identify and target those most receptive to their lies and provocations.
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The people running the show tell lies all the time that they want you to believe. The "problem" is twofold; they don't want you to believe someone else's lies, and they most certainly don't want you to hear uncomfortable truths that expose their own lies.