Confused Americans thought Amazon's fake radio station was real and started fighting on Twitter
Remember 1938, when Orson Welles went on the radio and broadcasted "War of the Worlds," accidentally convincing a surprising number of Americans that aliens had successfully invaded the United States?
Well it's 2017, aliens have yet to invade the country (unless you count Ben Carson) and Americans are just as susceptible to fake news as ever. A fictional Internet radio broadcast called "Resistance Radio," part of a marketing campaign for Amazon's Man in the High Castle, confused some Trump supporters and anti-Trumpers alike over the weekend, inciting anger and chaos on Twitter.
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