Taylor Swift is now the focus of partisan memes and fake news after she endorsed a Democratic candidate in Tennessee through an Instagram post, in which she also encouraged her fans to register to vote.
Her post has caused partisan news sites and Facebook groups, and at least one fake news creator, to start trying to generate engagement and revenue through posts and memes, reports Buzzfeed News.
One of the most shared partisan posts about Swift comes from Occupy Democrats on Facebook, which is a left-wing page. It invited fans to share the post as a thank you to the singer.
Anti-Swift memes were created by a well-known fake news publisher and shared on a page called America’s Last Line of Defense, which is run by Christopher Blair. He goes by Busta Troll and labels himself as a liberal satirist. He runs a network of Facebook pages and websites that spread hoaxes, reports Buzzfeed, which he says are aimed at fooling conservatives.
Meanwhile, right-wing Facebook pages have also been targeting the singer. The website Patriotic Express called for a Taylor Swift boycott. It generated more than 18,000 engagements, writes Buzzfeed.
Other headlines, which Buzzfeed says received thousands of engagements, claimed, without evidence, that the singer “DESTROYED her career” or “immediately regrets it.”
Taylor Swift Breaks Political Silence As Hardcore Leftist, Immediately Regrets It https://t.co/QZ191m4QWB
— PatriotMountainMan (@CuddleTalk) October 9, 2018
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