Deciphering the lingo of pro-Trump trolls
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In the run-up to the US presidential election, Cristina Lopez came across language online that she didn't understand - terms like "meme magic," "red-pilled" and "nimble navigator." They kept popping up in Reddit and 4chan where Donald Trump supporters posted. Lopez and her colleagues at nonprofit Media Matters for America have spent many hours lurking on these message boards, deciphering what she calls the pro-Trump troll dialect. This week on the podcast, Lopez explains some of the dialect.