BuzzFeed Now Looking to Institutional Dems to Police a Phantom Surge of Lefty Fake News https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/02/06/buzzfeed-now-looking-to-institutional-dems-to-combat-a-phantom-surge-of-lefty-fake-news/ …
Thanks. I'm not actually concerned whether @RoguePOTUSStaff is real or not. It's not substantively different than other fakes.
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I think people follow for same reason people followed Mayor Emanuel account. Or fake Merkel or fake Theresa May.
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I think before all these alt-federal agency accounts I would have agreed, but this seems different
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This one especially is super tempting to want to buy into
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Yes. Humans like to buy into narratives. That's what makes us human.
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Assuming your arg is true, is the running commentary on the WH not a way to follow it?
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Do you think it's less accurate that journos being forced to work with pathological liars as spox?
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See the entire fake news scare is based off unbelievably ahistoric notions of what "news" is. It's a sham.
End of conversation
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It's the only "rogue" acct that I still wonder about ... did you ever look at their website? I found this entry interesting... http://www.potusstaff.com/don-jr-meeting-birth-of-collusion.html …
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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