Balance is everything.

I'm imagining the PR team reading past the headline, heart in throat, and going, "Oh, terrorism? Thank fuck."

I can't believe I read all of the Dorothy Must Die books, including the short story collections, and Amazon never told me about this new series. So much for great and powerful algorithms.

Except that the alternative is to let the lie stand. Unless there's a third option we haven't tried.

I think they mostly just wanted their base to believe that Haitian immigrants are eating pets. Watching the opponent try to fight against the bizarre lie was just a bonus.

Just-world mentality. If the world is fair, then bad things only happen to those who deserve them, and I don't have to feel bad about them, and also the bad thing won't happen to ME.

Maybe? I haven't found it particularly persuasive, in most cases, to present people with the correct facts.