What I find interesting about this is that no matter how fake something like this may be it still serves the purpose of suggesting a thought or feeling to someone; it plants a seed. There’s definitely a certain segment of the population more prone to believing fiction (always has been, ie National Enquirer) but the vast majority of us will file things we want to be true into our subconscious where they slowly become non-fiction in our minds. This is how product advertising has always worked. This is how religion works. I mean, everything has the potential to start as something fictitious and become real in our minds. Have you ever told a story about something that happened to you only to realize, or have someone tell you, that it was the plot of a sitcom?
Trump and politics aside, it’s an interesting neurological phenomenon. These are the things we should be studying and teaching to evolve as a species. Though, governments and our corporate overlords would never allow us to actually think for ourselves.