Digital audiences can mistake fictional personas for real people. [causal]
"Now who's more real": American Dharma, directed by Errol Morris (Utopia, 2018). … "People take on these digital selves": American Dharma. … "I want Dave in Accounting to be Ajax": Jennifer Senior, “American Rasputin,” The Atlantic, June 6, 2022.
XREF: Connects to Errol Morris's American Dharma and the 'Ajax in Accounting' quote about Bannon's self-mythologizing performance.
Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, loc. 1231