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RoyGBivCap on April 13, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Meme group on Discord is focus of uproar over leak...

>“It Came from Something Awful: How a Toxic Troll Army Accidentally Memed Donald Trump into Office.”

CNN and reddit arguably did more than 4chan to get trump elected. They couldn't shut up about him and they have way more reach than 4chan.

misssocrates on April 13, 2023 [–]

The news media gave him $2 billion in free media coverage during his first campaign alone. Does 4chan come anywhere close to that?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_coverage_of_the_2016_Uni...

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