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CNN Report: Trump’s Instagram Mostly Echos Fox News Account

August 23, 2018 By Tammy Haddad

A post shared by President Donald J. Trump (@realdonaldtrump) on Aug 11, 2018 at 3:01pm PDT

Omarosa Manigault’s new book Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House says that Fox News managers send talking points to President Trump every day. Now a new report, by Hunter Schwartz from CNN’s Coverline, reveals from May 22nd to August 22nd President Donald Trump’s Instagram account has reposted 85 photos or videos from either Fox News, Fox Business, or “Fox & Friends,”. That’s about 24% of Trump’s 358-total posts in that time frame.

The pattern appears to be: Trump tweets, then Fox News turns the tweet into a graphic, sometime later the graphic ends up back on President Trump’s accounts, creating a type of social media feedback loop.

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