Vestal: How Breitbart trashed Twin Falls

It’s a perfect model for how to sell a false story.

Exaggerate wildly. Manipulate statistics egregiously. Double down on lies. Apply grotesque, racist stereotypes. When people who know the facts tell you you’re wrong, accuse them of being part of a globalist conspiracy. Bonus points if you can get an alternative-universe lawmaker or two, like Idaho’s Heather Scott, to spread your tale.

That was the pattern of propaganda peddled by the alt-right echo chamber Breitbart News last year in its “coverage” of a ginned-up “Muslim refugee crisis” in Twin Falls, Idaho. Breitbart co-founder and former chairman Steve Bannon is perhaps the most influential aide to President Donald Trump right now, and the Breitbart coverage of Twin Falls is an object lesson in the kind of broad-brush thinking now operating in the West Wing: Muslims are dirty criminals, even their children are terrorists, and they’re being imported by Obama to take away jobs from Americans.

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