I’d bet if you caught most of these right wing media talking heads in a candid moment you would find them to be normal people.
Like Alex Jones testifying in court that his persona on the show is a fraud and he’s just playing a character. Or Glenn Beck pitching conspiracy theories to old people on his show, but in a normal interview he’s an extremely level-headed and thoughtful guy. Did you know his net worth is $250 million dollars?
I recently visited my parents for Christmas, and you should have seen some of these sites that they actually pay for. I’m a web developer and most of these sites they frequent look like they were made by amateurs. The “content”, if you can even call it that, was the most disgusting trash you can imagine...no research to any of it, no journalistic integrity, and much of it was just stolen off other alt-news sites or laughably just social media posts by random people.
It got me thinking of how easily exploitable this space is. I could build a professional site that hosts the same trash under the hood, but at least the site would look like a safe place where your credit card won’t be sold on the dark web.
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