The study focused on Trump’s use of Twitter and how it was used to create a reality that didn’t rely on empirical evidence. But it went beyond that, looking at how Trump used the platform as a storyteller to launch his rise to the highest office in the land. — AFP
CLEVELAND, Ohio: Russia never meddled. Coronavirus is a hoax. The sound from windmills causes cancer. The election was stolen.
All of the above are lies uttered by Republican President Donald Trump. All of them provably so. Yet most people in the United States know somebody – maybe a friend or acquaintance – who believes the narrative Trump pushed over the past five years.
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