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Early Addition: Fake News Impresario Says He Got Trump Elected
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Early Addition: Fake News Impresario Says He Got Trump Elected


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Ben Yakas

Published Nov 17, 2016

Modified Nov 17, 2016


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  • The New Yorker is extremely disturbed by what we’ve seen from Trump in his first week as President-elect.
  • Speaking of disturbing, The Washington Post has an interview with the impresario of a Facebook fake-news empire who can't believe people are dumb enough to believe what he writes: "I think Trump is in the White House because of me. His followers don’t fact-check anything."
  • The Steve Bannon image rehab campaign has already begun.
  • Metallica, The Roots and Jimmy Fallon perform "Enter Sandman" with toy instruments.
  • Piers Morgan is a bad writer and dumb person.
  • Edward Snowden may not be a "fucking idiot," but he is wrong on this one.
  • The Mid-Manhattan Library is finally getting a renovation.
  • Stop trying to make "Gentrilennials" happen.
  • Ryan Gosling has mixed feelings about becoming a meme.
  • Ted Cruz is a very good boy who is very eager to work with the man who spent months batting him around like a piñata.
  • The FBI was prepared to carry on their petty rivalry with the CIA even if the Soviet Union conquered America.
  • And finally, push the sadness aside for a moment and watch a polar bear serenely pet a dog:

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