You\u2019ve been writing fake news for a while now \u201d\u201d you\u2019re kind of like the OG Facebook news hoaxer. Well, I\u2019d call it hoaxing or fake news. You\u2019d call it parody or satire. How is that scene different now than it was three or five years ago? Why did something like your story about Obama invalidating the election results (almost 250,000 Facebook shares, as of this writing) go so viral?<\/b><\/p>\n
Honestly, people are definitely dumber. They just keep passing stuff around. Nobody fact-checks anything anymore \u201d\u201d I mean, that\u2019s 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\u2019t care because they\u2019d already accepted it. It\u2019s real scary. I\u2019ve never seen anything like it.<\/p>\n