Donald Trump Won Because of Facebook

I think he won indirectly because of Facebook. The real powers behind the meme magic on Facebook were /pol/ and /r/The_Donald. This is evidenced by the amazing growth rate of /r/The_Donald and the huge traffic to and support from /pol/.

And I don't think misinformation won Donald the presidency. The main theme pushed by the two forums I mentioned was that Hillary and the DNC were extremely corrupt. Every new WikiLeaks release was scoured by /pol/; there were daily /cfg/ (Clinton Foundation general) threads on /pol/ in which tons of anons investigated the corruption of the Clinton Foundation and then made memes and organized social media movements about their findings.

It wasn't misinformation that won Donald he presidency, it was the organized effort of people trying to expose corruption. Whether the corruption was over-exaggerated is another story.

On the Left, we used to make fun of Republicans for living in the Fox News bubble (Jon Stewart memorably dubbed it "Bullshit Mountain"), and how easily they were fooled by the constant stream of fake scandals (Death Panels! ACORN!). But this time we fell into our own bubble, hard. I'm sure conservatives in this thread will say we were in one the whole time, and maybe they're right. This election isn't Facebook's fault as much as humans' desire to believe what they want to believe.

He won because the election was fair. Get over it. The election was democratic and that's that.