Why do we even have "news" stories about someone on Twitter or Facebook complaining about stuff? Why would anyone possibly care about such things, much less care enough to write a "news" story?
Probably because for the last several years, this kind of thing ends up getting repeated by tons of DP conservatives. And if other DP conservatives can't bring themselves to sharply criticize their fellows, they instead just pop into the thread to attack liberals.
More specifically, this isn't just "someone on Twitter". It starts that way. Then it's bounced around amongst Trump supporters. And then it's normalized. And then just about all DP conservatives end up saying it here. Happens all the time. So the bottom line is, it starts out as "someone on Twitter", then because it isn't bashed down by people the "someone on Twitter" does not already consider a political enemy, it because common "fake news" knowledge for a whole bunch of conservatives.
I've already seen a few people start slagging her because she danced, right in accordance with that "someone on Twitter"'s wishes.
If it gets picked up on political discussion forums and other sources of internet entertainment then so be it. However, when the BBC, or FOX or MSNBC or ABC picks this stuff up it reeks of yellow journalism.
No, it doesn't reek. It's sad that we actually need it to happen, but we DO need it happen because if normal journalism just ignores it, it becomes never-questioned truth. And when people act on it for that reason, its
function is of truth, even though it is false.
It gets worse. Not only does the first thing happen, but a secondary thing happens where "OMG, the news media won't speak about this! Conspiracy" becomes truthful in function. And then that also becomes part of the national discourse, whether on DP or Facebook or elsewhere.
Something that does not and should not matter becomes something that
does matter because the morons who think it matter vote. For the same reason, it matters if X million people like passing around memes and "fake news" on media. That is, not something that doesn't matter like dancing but actually happened, but instead literally fake 'news'.
A main justification for having robust free speech is that bad ideas lose out in the marketplace of ideas. They don't lose out if a growing number of people believe them, but nobody is slapping them down. Then, they become common ideas in the same way a lie can become truth in its function.
In a perfect world, we wouldn't need a news article about how some morons are passing around a video of a politician dancing in college and using it to attack her, then high-five each other on their anti-left tribalism, because there would be too few of those morons to reach a level of significance.
But it's far from a perfect world. It's better to at least make less moronic people aware of what the large number of morons are doing, so it can be countered in one way or another. Sad, but necessary.