The Pentagon wants to recruit Taylor Swift to influence public opinion so that Joe Biden gets re-elected. The singer declared in 2018 that she flatly rejected Donald Trump and spoke out for Joe Biden during the 2020 election campaign.
"They're afraid of her," says Marc Pitzke, SPIEGEL's long-time US correspondent in New York. How do not only the radical media like Fox News but also the Republicans make money from such campaigns? How uncritically do Donald Trump's supporters now follow such stories? And why is it not just the right that is susceptible to fake news?