The Trump disinformation bubble: A new study shows how toxic right-wing media narratives
The Trump “disinformation” bubble: A new study shows how toxic right-wing media narratives sway coverage
A pipeline of lies and propaganda runs directly into the Oval Office, presenting difficult challenges for the media
Simon Maloy Tuesday, Mar 7, 2017 04:00 AM CST
Sean Hannity had a busy weekend on Twitter. The Fox News host and “street martial arts” practitioner had a fire lit underneath him upon hearing that President Donald Trump had accused Barack Obama of ordering wiretaps at Trump Tower during the 2016 presidential campaign. As any good journalist would, Hannity took Trump’s statement at face value and immediately set about trying to get answers.
That quest involved spending all of Saturday rage-tweeting variations of “What did Obama know and when did he know it” at former Obama staffers. Shortly after midnight on Sunday morning, Hannity put the final touch on this journalistic achievement by tweeting out a Breitbart article about how he’d “grilled” the former president and his aides over the issue.
The problem with all this is that Trump seems to have made the whole thing up.
http://www.salon.com/2017/03/07/the-trump-disinformation-bubble-a-new-study-shows-how-toxic-right-wing-media-narratives-sway-coverage/
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