administrations that he runs. in his business career for dpam example. if you look at bannon and priebus, i wouldn t be surprised if you ended up with flynn as national security adviser and someone more moderate and establishment focused, the secretary of state competing for influence. that in itself creates a dynamic of uncertainty. the dynamic of competition within the trump inner circle. live for us from london. thank you for your insight. we ll stay in touch with you. this is a real challenge for journalists covering this story and many stories. we vet our facts and make sure they re accurate before we share them with viewers. there are many organizations that don t really have to do that, i guess. the challenge for many people. what do you do when you can t tell fact from fiction? how fact news has impacted the u.s. presidential candidates. that s next. derek van dam joins us to
made up, false stories are on time lines and twitter streams. this cesspool of nonsense. it s horrible. reporter: and getting worse. president obama is raising the alarm. if we are not serious about facts and what s true and what s not, then we have problems. reporter: these problems are not brand-new. they are becoming a lot more prevalent. here is an example. a story claiming a protester was paid $3500 to make trouble at a trump rally. this went viral during the campaign. it looked like an abc news story. the url reveals it s a fake registered to a domain in columbia. it was a hoax, which tricked trump s campaign manager and his son, eric, who shared it on twitter. we have an epidemic of false information racing around using social networks as the excel ray tor. reporter: the pope endorsing
triage centers. although the syrian regime s bunker busters designed to pierce through bomb shelters mean nowhere is safe. each in war-torn east a lep open, many say they ve never experienced bombing like this. hundreds of air strikes and thousands of artillery rounds fired on saturday alone. at one destroyed building, rescuers drill and dig frantically trying to save a little girl trapped underneath what used to be her home. they find her silent, clutching her blanket, in shock. seconds after pulling her out, they must run for cover. the planes and the bochls are coming back. will ripley, cnn, istanbul. follow the story live this hour, cnn live from amman,
about it. did the spread of fake news on the web help elect donald trump? we may never know for sure. reeve searchers are are asking the question because it s polluting the time lines and twitter streams. this cesspool of nonsense. bogus stories. getting worse. even president obama is raising the alarm. if we are not serious about facts and what s true and what s not, then we have problems. these problems are not brand new, but they re becoming more prevalent. here s an example. a story claiming a protester was paid $3500 to make trouble at a trump rally. this went viral during the campaign. it looked like an abc news story. the url reveals it s a fake registered to a domain in columbia. it was a hoax which tricked
jordan. thanks for being with us. talking about the story that will just reported and the details you ve been following. we ve been talking for days about hospitals, schools that have been targeted an now another hospital with patients marked for death. it is unimaginable, george. these hospitals that we have seen targeted over and over again with this renewed bombardment of eastern is aleppo that began last tuesday. at least four hospitals were hit, two surgical hospitals an the only specialized children s hospital in eastern aleppo. if you look at the figures from the past few days, unimaginable, staggering figures when you re talking about nearly a thousands people wuned. some if various serious conditions. this is not app isolated incident. according to watchdog groups over the past yeerks we believe