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Trump VP nominee J.D. Vance said it’s OK to use cat memes to get media attention

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J.D. Vance suggested that it was okay to use a false story if it made people pay attention to the suffering of the American people.

The ploy of using false memes to direct mainstream media attention has a storied tradition.

For years , right-wing internet influencers have deliberately aimed to use “shit-posting” to get the mainstream media to cover their favorite topics.

Donald Trump Jr. admitted that he had been added to the “Trump HQ Slack’s Slack.” The trolls played to other aspects of human psychology, such as the fact that “people aren’t rational” a woman treated as a co-conspirator in the trial advised, using the British spelling for rumor. By that logic, a chunk of people will continue to believe that migrants are eating pets.

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42

Informative language

36

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33

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

Offensive language

offensive

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possibly hateful

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detected

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short-lived

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