“I thought [Trump supporters] would fact-check it, and it’d make them look worse. I mean that’s how this always works: Someone posts something I write, then they find out it’s false, then they look like idiots. But Trump supporters — they just keep running with it! They never fact-check anything! Now…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald Trump, Facebook, Social Media
“My sites were picked up by Trump supporters all the time. I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything — they’ll post everything, believe anything. His campaign manager posted my story about a protester getting paid $3,500 as fact. Like, I made that up.…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald Trump, Facebook, Social Media
“Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore — I mean, that’s how Trump got elected. He just said whatever he wanted, and people believed everything, and when the things he said turned out not to be true, people didn’t care because…”— Paul Horner, washingtonpost.comTagged: Election 2016, Donald Trump, Facebook, Social Media