Nobody would fault you for not realizing that Donald Trump’s “expertise” firm, Trump Media and Expertise Group, has a streaming service. However now that you simply do know that, aren’t you curious what’s on it? Fortunate for you, a latest report from Speaking Factors Memo dug into the content material over on Fact+ and it’s each bit as batshit as you had been in all probability imaging.
Fact+ seems to be massive on two issues: faith and conspiracy theories. That looks as if it’s proper in keeping with the MAGA crowd’s hobbies, however these conspiracies appear to be much less of the “Trump had the election stolen from him” selection and extra of the “Jesus Christ was a secret alien” sort. No, actually.
Per TPM, one of many movies on the platform known as “Conspiracy Chronicles,” and it throws some unimaginable claims on the market, together with the likelihood that Jesus, Buddha, and Krishna had been all from a unique planet. It additionally apparently claims that the Moon is “hollowed out” and serves as a base for aliens. Are they the identical aliens sending us our most revered spiritual figures? Exhausting to say. What is obvious, per the movie, is that the US authorities has been masking all of this up. Fortunately, the man who runs the streaming service spewing these theories now has the facility to debrief all that info! Certainly he’ll, proper?
It’s solely certainly one of many movies on the platform which can be all in on out-there claims. One other, titled “Lizard Folks: Rulers of Time and Area,” claims that there’s a race of lizard-like aliens who created people and developed spiritual techniques to manage them. Frankly, it’s kinda wild how shut this stuff get to acknowledging some type of actuality (organized faith getting used as a technique of management, as an example) solely to swerve and blame it on aliens as a substitute of like, individuals who want energy and wealth. There are precise explanations for this stuff, however the one method for them to be digestible to a sure crowd is for these explanations to have some type of otherworldiness sprinkled on prime.
Now, it will be truthful to say that each streaming service has its fair proportion of bonkers titles that find yourself obtainable by wide-reaching rights offers, and nobody is definitely watching them. And there are seemingly only a few folks watching Fact+ generally. However those that do are apparently consuming up these conspiracies. TPM reported that the “Lizard Folks” film was within the prime 10 on the platform this week.
That programming doesn’t precisely appear in keeping with the “information, Christian content material, and family-friendly programming that’s uncancellable by Huge Tech” that Trump’s firm promised when it launched the streaming platform final yr. However possibly the Bible had extra to say about serpents than simply that snake within the Backyard of Eden.
