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Franken said, “Basically, we have this country, people self-sort and get their information from different sources that confirm their own bias. There are a lot of Americans getting their news from those kinds of sources — Rush Limbaugh, Fox News.”
Discussing Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, Franken said,”What happened in the election—and by the way, the intelligence committees should be, and the Justice Department which isn’t doing this evidently—should be working on how to prevent this from happening again. So what happened was they hacked the DNC, they hacked Podesta, and then they had a 1,000 trolls.”
He continued, “They had all these trolls sending out fake stories that got picked up by people’s Facebook. And Trump voters preferred fake news that was being put up by the Soviets—I’m sorry, the Russians—and by other people. And that’s part of what this coordination and we’re going to be looking into— whether that was coordinated. And so you put out this narrative about how corrupt Hillary was and people bought into that. And they sent it to each other. That was part of what the Russians did. That was a big part of what their effort was.”
how nice. Since it was only because of "fake news" that Hillary lost I say she should run again in 2020. Al Franken can be her running mate.
how nice. Since it was only because of "fake news" that Hillary lost I say she should run again in 2020. Al Franken can be her running mate.
First, your post is another Trump misrepresentation. Nowhere does he say "only." That's your own fabrication. But, second, he's quite right that for all the less-educated voters, they were easy prey for fabricated or slanted news, whether from Russia, the GOP, or anyone else.
First, your post is another Trump misrepresentation. Nowhere does he say "only." That's your own fabrication. But, second, he's quite right that for all the less-educated voters, they were easy prey for fabricated or slanted news, whether from Russia, the GOP, or anyone else.
No Hillary lost because she is that bad.
Hillary had the media on her side. Right down to CNN giving her the debate questions ahead of time.
Hillary lost because she was a lousy choice. So was Trump. She was just a hair worse.
Oh, please - all the stories portraying her in the worst possible light, the stories implying she was "crooked" - this in the face of Trump having the worst records of illicit acts of any candidate in history, the stories implying she was suffering some kind of horrible illness. There aren't any particular stories - it's all cumulative.
But here's one horrifying example of a guy who created fake news just for fun:
Oh, please - all the stories portraying her in the worst possible light, the stories implying she was "crooked" - this in the face of Trump having the worst records of illicit acts of any candidate in history, the stories implying she was suffering some kind of horrible illness. There aren't any particular stories - it's all cumulative.
But here's one horrifying example of a guy who created fake news just for fun:
First, your post is another Trump misrepresentation. Nowhere does he say "only." That's your own fabrication. But, second, he's quite right that for all the less-educated voters, they were easy prey for fabricated or slanted news, whether from Russia, the GOP, or anyone else.
The Dems rely on their under educated base who believe every promise they make, only to break. The irony of the self anointed "smart left" again.
Now they're coming up with every excuse for why they lost, but never considering themselves as the reason.
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which fake news stories caused Hillary to lose?
The real stories caused her to lose, not the fake ones. Her own arrogance was her worst enemy. The minute she called 1/2 the country deplorable and irredeemable, it was done.
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