With the calamitous outcome of last year’s presidential election still haunting their every dream, many mainstream media folks have seemingly suffered an existential crisis. How could so many people be so stupid as to vote for Donald Trump, they wondered. In the scramble for answers, an old concept was brought forth, dressed in the novel language of a simpleton — fake news. Yes, these media sages concluded, American voters were duped into casting their votes for the villainous Trump because of the insidious and pervasive power of fake news. Oh, the humanity!
With its newly coined buzz word, the Leftmedia is now obsessed with what to do to stop this pandemic of propaganda. Social media sites like Facebook took up the cause by devising new filtering systems. But did these phony stories actually persuade enough Americans to change their minds so as to alter the electoral outcome? Not according to a recently released study by Stanford University, which concluded that fake news had little impact on the election results.
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