That’s funny, I think it reflects the ease of making money with celebrity gossip, which takes very little investment to produce and tends to draw a fair amount of engagement.
Whatever we click on, mixed with what is cheapest to produce, that’s what we get more of.
All that data-driven marketing really bringing the “insights” these days.
Mindless zombies who believe that Martians are hiding everywhere. LOL. I really blame the National Enquirer who Trump must have read religiously and actually believed the insane stories they ran.
Thanks algorithms.
And corporations, who are driven to only make profit, with the easiest way to accomplish that being to take advantage of people’s natural weaknesses. Like a drug dealer would.
It’s weird… the article is paywalled and yet it isn’t just a single line that says, “Republicans have oatmeal for brains.”
Powerful woman smeared in a coordinated manner by a movement bent on subjugating women.
It’s so hard to figure out what’s going on here.
"Conspiracists have often worried about artists being manipulated for political ends. After Anna Akhmatova, a Russian poet, gave a recital in Moscow, Stalin is said to have raged: ‘Who organized the standing ovation?’ In the 1950s America’s paranoid ‘Red Scare’ blighted careers and lives, including Charlie Chaplin’s.”
“As during the cold war, American politics is now especially conducive to suspicion of entertainers. One of them became president, a reality-TV star whose rallies combine the vitriol of a witch-burning with the reassuring formula of a game show. Donald Trump blurred to vanishing the line between politics and showbiz; he also dragged conspiracy theories to the centre of debate. And he exacerbated a prior political trend—America’s extreme polarisation—which encourages conspiratorial thinking.”
Honestly, my first reaction upon understanding their relationship was “well yeah it would be nice to date someone famous and get a huge windfall for doing it”.
The theorists really have a canny way of finding the most mundane piece of skepticism and turning it into something unbelievable.
