Fake News on Facebook? In Foreign Elections, That’s Not New
I think &quot;Fake News&quot; is a boogey-man rationalization for what happened.<p>&quot;Half of the country voted for someone else. Not someone I liked. I am baffled. What happened? Because they read about lizard people or how Obama was born in Africa&quot; or, the officially sanctioned response: &quot;Because of those pesky KGB agents hiding in the bushes&quot;. That is the easiest rationalization and one which leads to least cognitive dissonance and one in which the other side is completely demonized or idioticized.<p>All those working men and women from PA and MI who before voted for the &quot;right party&quot; almost religiously for years, all of the sudden have been brainwashed by sneaky foreigners to believe in lizard people, they are all now white supremacists and like Hitler (nevermind they voted for Obama just a few years ago), and will also use gays for target practice.