A FEW WEEKS AGO THERE WAS A DRAMATIC AND POTENTIALLY
DISASTROUS STORY INVOLVING A 28-YEAR-OLD MAN NAMED EDGAR WHO
WENT INTO A PIZZERIA AND NORTH CAROLINA WITH A GUN AND
ATTEMPTED TO MAKE INDIVIDUALS PAY CONSEQUENCES FOR AN ALLEGED
PEDOPHILIA RING THAT WAS RUN OUT OF THAT PIZZERIA.
THAT WAS A
CONSPIRACY THEORY THAT WAS DEBUNKED.
WELCH EVEN SAID HE
PROBABLY SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT.
AFTER THAT GIGANTIC STORY
WHERE AGAIN THE CONSPIRACY WAS DEBUNKED, IT TURNS OUT A RECENT
POLL FINDS THAT NEARLY HALF OF TRUMP SUPPORTERS, VOTERS, STILL
BELIEVE HILLARY CLINTON WAS RUNNING A PEDOPHILIA RING OUT OF
THAT PIZZERIA.
IT IS INSANE.
TO START ON 4-CHAN AND READ IT AND SPREAD ONLINE, IT IS A
LITTLE UNBELIEVABLE TO ME HOW WELL IT WORKED TO GET THE
WORD OUT.
YOU AND I HAVE DISAGREED ABOUT THE IMPACT OF FAKE NEWS AND
THESE CONSPIRACY THEORIES ON THE SELECTION.
I AM ON FACEBOOK A
LOT, SO I SAW A LOT OF AND NOTICED HOW PREVALENT IT WAS.
IS
A BIG DEAL BECAUSE IF PEOPLE DESPISE A CANDIDATE AND THEY
REALLY WANT THEIR PERSON TO WIN, THEY WILL SHARE IT.
A LOT OF
PEOPLE LACK MEDIA LITERACY.
THERE ARE A LOT OF SITES OUT
THERE MADE TO LOOK LIKE REAL NEWS, IN REALITY THEY HAVE A
POLITICAL AGENDA AND MAY HAVE INCENTIVES ON PUSHING OUT FAKE
NEWS STORIES.
I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT BIASED NEWS STORIES, I'M
TALKING ABOUT COMPLETELY FALSE INFORMATION THAT IS MADE UP
ENTIRELY.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT.
IT WENT VIRAL BECAUSE
THINGS THAT ARE OUTRAGEOUS GO VIRAL ON THE INTERNET.
I'M NOT SAYING FAKE NEWS WAS THE ONLY REASON HILLARY CLINTON
LOST – BUT OBVIOUSLY IT HAD A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT.
THE DAILY
NEWS THAT IS COVERING THIS IS WRONG.
THEY CALLED REDDIT AN
OBSCURE WEBSITE.
REDDIT IS NOT OBSCURE, IT IS GIANT.
I CAN'T
BELIEVE IT SPREAD THAT MUCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
BUT THESE GUYS
DON'T GET IT AT ALL IN THE OLD PRESS.
THEY ARE LIKE WHAT IS
THIS THING CALLED REDDIT?
BUT NOT ONLY DID IT SPREAD TO ENOUGH
TRUMP VOTERS FOR THEM TO KNOW ABOUT IT, BUT NOW 46% OF THEM
BELIEVE THAT HILLARY CLINTON RAN A CHILD SEX RING!
THAT IS
UNBELIEVABLE!
AND A GUY GOES IN THERE TO INVESTIGATE WITH
A
RIFLE.
BECAUSE I SAW IN THE EMAILS CODED WORDS, LIKE PIZZA.
OR MAYBE THEY LITERALLY HAD PIZZA BECAUSE PIZZA PARTIES
HAPPEN ALL THE TIME.
IF YOU CONNECTED IT TO SOMETHING EVEN
PLAUSIBLE.
FOR EXAMPLE JEFFREY EPSTEIN, BILLIONAIRE WHO IS
CHARGED WITH HAVING SEX WITH UNDER AGED GIRLS, AND OTHER
PROSTITUTES AND SERVED TIME FOR IT.
BILL CLINTON AND DONALD
TRUMP HAVE BEEN CONNECTED TO EPSTEIN.
THEY USED A PARTY WITH
THEM.
TO WHAT DEGREE THEY DID ANYTHING ELSE, NO ONE KNOWS.
DON'T START SPECULATING.
IF YOU WANT WITH THAT STORY THERE IS AT
LEAST SOME PLAUSIBILITY TO IT.
BUT IT WAS NOT THEM, IT WAS
HILLARY CLINTON.
WHAT THE HELL IS SHE DOING IN A CHILD SEX RING
AND WHY THE HELL WOULD SHE DO THAT?
HAVE YOU NO RATIONALITY AT ALL?
NO, THEY DON'T.
THEY WANT TO BELIEVE WHAT THEY WANT.
THAT IS
WHY WE GET INTO THESE DEBATES ON WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE HOPE FOR
THE COUNTRY.
I AM PESSIMISTIC BECAUSE AFTER SOMETHING LIKE
THIS GETS DEBUNKED, PEOPLE STILL DECIDE THEY WANT TO BELIEVE IT.
BECAUSE IT GOES TOWARDS THEIR NARRATIVES AND REINFORCES
THIS NOTION THAT HILLARY IS THIS CRAZY MANIAC WHO IS OUT
THERE RUNNING PEDOPHILIA RINGS.
BY THE WAY, A SATANIC CULT THAT RUNS A PEDOPHILIA RING.
HOW
CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?
IT IS UNBELIEVABLE!
IS NOT JUST
RIGHT-WINGERS, IT IS PROGRESSIVES THAT HATE HILLARY
TOO.
YOU GUYS ARE INSANE.
BY THE WAY, THE AUTHORITIES – THEY DID LOOK INTO IT AND THEY
SAID OF COURSE THEY ARE NOT RUNNING A SEX RING OUT OF A
PIZZA SHOP.
THIS IS LIKE AN EPISODE OF BLACK MIRROR.
IT IS ALL FUN AND
GAMES WHEN SOMEONE GOES INTO A PIZZA SHOP WITH A RIFLE AND
LUCKILY DOESN'T DO ANY HARM.
BUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE DOES
OPEN FIRE AND INNOCENT PEOPLE DIE BECAUSE STUPID NONSENSE
INDIVIDUALS ARE SPREADING FAKE NEWS IN AN EFFORT TO SMEAR A
CANDIDATE THEY DON'T LIKE?
I DON'T KNOW WHY INFO WARS DELETED
ALL OF THESE ARTICLES REGARDING PIZZA GATE?
WHAT ARE YOU TRYING
TO DO?
COVER UP THE FACT THAT YOU ALSO HAD A LOT TO DO WITH
THIS?
VERY INTERESTING.
IT SOUNDS LIKE A CONSPIRACY TO ME.
YOU SHOULD BE PROUD.
WHAT
DO WE ALWAYS TELL YOU HALF OF THE TRUMP VOTERS ARE THE DUMBEST
PEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY.
INFO WARS, YOU ON THOSE GUYS, BE
PROUD.
YOU ARE THE CHANNEL FOR UTTER MORONS WHO BELIEVE
ANYTHING.
OWN IT.
YOU SHOULD BE REALLY PROUD OF THAT.
OTHER DUMB
THINGS THAT TRUMP VOTERS CLAIM.
A WHOPPING 80% OF TRUMP VOTERS
CLAIM THAT THE INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY'S CONCLUSION ABOUT
RUSSIA HACKING INTO PODESTA'S EMAILS IS NOT TRUE.
HOW DO YOU
KNOW?
YOU CAN QUESTION THAT FACT.
BUT 80% ARE POSITIVE THAT
IT IS NOT TRUE?
HOW THEY HAVE THAT EVIDENCE I AM NOT SURE.
PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO DOCUMENTS AND WHO GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO
HIDE FROM THE GOVERNMENT BECAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO GET DEPORTED
WENT TO THE POLLS AND VOTED?
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE.
NO EVIDENCE WHATSOEVER.
YOU ARE WRONG, FACTUALLY INCORRECT.
BUT THEY DON'T WANT EVIDENCE.
THEY JUST WANT WHATEVER
REINFORCES WHAT THEY BELIEVE.
GOING BACK TO PIZZA GATE, ONLY
29% OF HIS VOTERS ARE SURE IT IS NOT TRUE.
ANOTHER ONE THAT
DRIVES ME INSANE, HALF OF HIS VOTERS THINK IT IS AT LEAST
POSSIBLE OR POSSIBLY TRUE THAT PRES.
OBAMA WAS BORN IN KENYA.
AT LEAST PROBABLY TRUE.
EVEN TRUMP HIMSELF, A NUMBER THAT
STUPID NEWS CONFERENCE HE HELD SAID HE WAS BORN HERE.
OH YEAH,
HE SAID THAT BUT HE DIDN'T MEAN IT.
I DON'T CARE.
I AM A MORON
AND I WILL BELIEVE WHATEVER THE HELL PROPAGANDA I AM GIVEN.
THIS
IS WHAT CONSERVATIVES THINK.
LIBERALS ALSO SOMETIMES BELIEVE
THINGS THAT ARE NOT TRUE.
STUDY SHOW THERE IS A HUMAN TRAIT.
ALL
THE SHOWS THAT CONSERVATIVES BELIEVE THINGS THAT ARE UNTRUE
AT MUCH HIGHER RATES.
ONE PARTY IS NOT AS SMART AS THE OTHER
PARTY.
ONE PARTY CARES ABOUT FACTS, AND THE OTHER ONE
DOESN'T.
IF YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE NONSCIENTIFIC,
NONFACTUAL, NON-LOGICAL PARTY OF THE REPUBLICANS, HAVE AT IT.
FROM
NOW WANTS WHEN WE CALL THE PUBLIC AND STUPID AND FACTUALLY
WRONG THERE IS DATA TO BACK IT UP.