Palin’s role in exploiting America’s divisions (including on social media) and paving the way for the rise of President Donald Trump is explored as part of America’s Great Divide - a two-night, four-hour special premiering Jan.
Schmidt and Palin have clashed in the years after the campaign ended, each accusing the other of mischaracterizations. “And this obliteration of fact from fiction, of truth from lie, has become now endemic in American politics. “She would say things that are simply not true, or things that were picked up from the Internet,” the former GOP operative, who had also worked as a campaign adviser to President George W. She was, and there’s no polite way to say it, but a serial liar,” Steve Schmidt, who helped lead John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign and pushed him to choose Palin as his running mate, tells FRONTLINE in the documentary America’s Great Divide: From Obama to Trump. “She is the first of a generation of politicians who live in a post-truth environment. Continued blurring of the line between fact and fiction has helped to define the political era that has followed.īut a new FRONTLINE documentary traces the use of online misinformation at high levels of the American political conversation back years further: to Sarah Palin, a former Alaska mayor and the 2008 Republican vice presidential candidate. The rise of online misinformation, shared on social media and designed to stoke fear and inflame divisions, gained major national attention in connection with the 2016 presidential election.
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