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"This ‘Conservative News Site’ Trended on Facebook, Showed Up on Fox News—and Duped the World"
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/10/28/the-man-who-duped-trumpkins-fox-news.htmlThis ‘Conservative News Site’ Trended on Facebook, Showed Up on Fox News—and Duped the World
BEN COLLINS
10.28.16 12:15 AM ET
Marco Chacon had only spent about $20 on his conservative news website, RealTrueNews, when he heard his words in prime time on Fox News’ The Kelly File.
“Yeah,” Chacon said. “That was an accident.”
Just as he’d done for the last few months, Chacon had read the latest explosive conservative news—this time it was Hillary Clinton’s leaked speeches to Wall Street banks—and typed up an imagined transcript of his own.
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"Taking official-looking documents at face value isn’t just burgeoning among alt-right media.
It’s a tactic now endorsed by the Republican candidate for president."
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