Did you know the Clinton campaign bought the flat below Donald Trump's in order to secretly record him? You shouldn't, because Stephen Colbert just made it up. This is the conspiracy theory campaign, where anything about the candidates (but, let's be honest, mostly about Hillary Clinton) gains traction. Colbert had some fun with that last night:
As Colbert rightly pointed out, our information ecosystem has devolved to a level that has become dangerous to democracy. At a time when media literacy seems to be at an all time low—people can't tell what outlets are trustworthy, nor do they care to verify information—we're drowning in more sources than ever and Facebook turns it all into a swamp. While it used to be a job for the evening news, Americans are now curating their own information feeds to constantly reinforce their own viewpoint and prevent dissenting evidence from getting in.
That's how, if you happen to be a fan of Alex Jones and Breitbart, for instance, you might believe "real" American unemployment is close to 10 percent (it's 5, but that's better than Trump's number of 42 [!]) and Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are demons sent from Hell who smell like sulfur.
It's really time we did something about this. But what?
