People Are Generating a Flood of Fake News About Trump That Does No Reputational Damage Whatsoever
President Donald Trump regularly posts some of the most bizarre content on the internet, from images of himself as Jesus Christ to AI videos of diarrhea being dumped on liberal protesters. But there’s been a weird trend over the past year: social media users take Trump’s strange fake photos and make them only slightly weirder. Fake image of President Donald Trump, Mahatma Gandhi, President John F.
- ▪President Donald Trump regularly posts some of the most bizarre content on the internet, from images of himself as Jesus Christ to AI videos of diarrhea being dumped on liberal protesters.
- ▪But there’s been a weird trend over the past year: social media users take Trump’s strange fake photos and make them only slightly weirder.
- ▪Fake image of President Donald Trump, Mahatma Gandhi, President John F.
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President Donald Trump regularly posts some of the most bizarre content on the internet, from images of himself as Jesus Christ to AI videos of diarrhea being dumped on liberal protesters. But there’s been a weird trend over the past year: social media users take Trump’s strange fake photos and make them only slightly weirder. And then those fakes go viral, with most people never realizing they’re looking at something Trump never actually…
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