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Trending Video: Donald Trump Tweets Turned Into Emo Song

  • by: Maarten Schenk
  • (Sun, 12 Feb 2017 22:40:48 Z)

You have to see and hear this. The Super Deluxe entertainment company took a series of Trump tweets and turned them into a 2000's emo song. It works surprisingly well:

The tweet is currently trending, as the Trendolizer graph below shows.

About the author:

Maarten Schenk is our resident expert on fake news and hoax websites. He likes to go beyond just debunking trending fake news stories and is endlessly fascinated by the dazzling variety of psychological and technical tricks used by the people and networks who intentionally spread made-up things on the internet.  He can often be found at conferences and events about fake news, disinformation and fact checking when he is not in his office in Belgium monitoring and tracking the latest fake article to go viral.

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