The Real Story Behind a Fake Conservative News Site
The Daily Beast interviews creator RealTrueNews' Marco Chacon on the joke that became all too real.
Perhaps in an earlier time, just the name RealTrueNews would have given some pause. But the name, and style, of Marco Chacon‘s fake conservative news site sounded so similar to thing it’s meant to parody–conservative sites with a tenuous connection to reality–that its intended audience believed the joke.
And this isn’t the case of a liberal trying to get a laugh out of suckering conservatives. Chacon, as Ben Collins describes in his piece in The Daily Beast, is a moderate Republican, as well as “a 47-year-old veteran infantryman, father, bank executive,” who “saw it all over his Facebook feed, and he was sick of it.”
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