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Fake News Writer: Trump Won ‘Because of Me’

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Posted On: 11/17/2016 1:05:07 PM
Posted By: Bhawks
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Fake News Writer: Trump Won ‘Because of Me’

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters

Paul Horner, an individual who creates hoaxes and fake news on Facebook, said he believes he is the reason why Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election.

“Honestly, people are definitely dumber,” Horner said in an interview with The Washington Post. “They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore—I mean, that’s how Trump got elected.”

He added: “I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything—they’ll post everything, believe anything.” When asked why he wouldn’t stop, Horner said he didn’t think Trump could ever actually win the presidency.

Recently, Google said it would scrub fake news from its ad platforms, which worries Horner because he makes $10,000 per month from advertisements that run with his work.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-inter...?tid=sm_tw

Speaking of Clinton — did you target fake news at her supporters? Or Gary Johnson’s, for that matter? (Horner’s Facebook picture shows him at a rally for Johnson.)

No. I hate Trump.

Is that it? You posted on Facebook a couple weeks ago that you had a lot of ideas for satirizing Clinton and other figures, but that “no joke . . . in doing this for six years, the people who clicked ads the most, like it’s the cure for cancer, is right-wing Republicans.”

That makes it sound like you’ve found targeting conservatives is more profitable.

Yeah, it is. They don’t fact-check.



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