Reply #18: You may have a point there... [View All]

I also keep an eye on birthers for entertainment, and the famous "fake Kenyan birth certificate" kept them busy for a while there.

But that seemed to be less "disinfo" than someone having a good time.

"The story structure also argues for parody or caricature."

That's highly subjective. Scientology strikes me as among the most successful "jokes that got out of hand" in history, but with L. Ron Hubbard dead, it's not clear to me if anyone in that organization understands it was a joke.

People do sincerely believe a number of things that strike other people as "Surely, you have to be kidding."

There is a prolific member of this forum whom I've thought to be kidding sometimes, but I'm coming around to believing he is serious.