I think especially in politics a lot of people don’t really want to know what’s true but latch onto whatever “fact” that feels good to them. When the whole birther issue came up I had several discussions with my right wing neighbor who even after all evidence pointing towards this being nonsense still thought that Obama was born in Kenya. When you look at the stock market or unemployment there was continuous improvement since 2008 but plenty of people hold the idea that the country was in bad shape either before or after trump’s election. No fact or chart can convince them otherwise.

That’s why a lot of people fall for fake news because they don’t really want to know the real (and often very complicated) facts.