Confessions of a Disinformer

Source: Unpopular Front
by John Ganz

“Last Friday evening, unable to watch the Mets game due to a broadcasting blackout, I tweeted, ‘Trump is Dead. He died on Wednesday.’ Why? Well, he hadn’t been seen for a couple of days, and it seemed sort of funny to me. I didn’t really have any intent while doing this. It was, in the parlance of our times, a shitpost. And not even that, because that implies a desire to troll or disconcert. I didn’t have any developed motive; I had an impulse. I noticed that some of my funnier friends seemed to think it was funny and were liking it. (Some likes are better than others.) A success! I went to bed. The next morning, I woke to discover it had received hundreds of thousands of likes and thousands of retweets.” (09/02/25)

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