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Chris Mills
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There's a bunch of different theories about what caused Donald Trump to win. Was Hillary a bad candidate, do people really love his trade policies, or is there actually a pact with the devil involving a Cubs World Series?
All of those are about as plausible as each other, but one particularly enduring theory is the rise of "fake news." Among a mainstream media that failed to call the election and is suffering industry-wide layoffs, blaming fake news (and, by extension, the people dumb enough to believe it) is blissfully cathartic. And, rather surprisingly, the authors peddling the fake news agree.
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