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We can't know whether fake news tilted the election towards Trump. There is no experiment or analysis that can conclusively dis/prove that hypothesis. NYT and others should be humble here. Sure, fake news is stupid, but so is claiming that it "helped elect Trump"

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Here's the narrative- "This outcome is so out of whack that either you guys are just the stupidest, most gullible people, or you are normal people, who would have voted for us, had you not been fooled by malevolent and manipulative forces."

It's an easy way to console your butthurt when you lost- just claiming that had everyone been better informed, they'd have done the 'right' thing.

So is NYT fake news, their own echo chamber with no facts or research.

They just pull a popular headline and write what if... So what's the difference between these Macedonian boys making more money money with adsense? -- none. I give the latter more respect for succeeding.

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