counter offensive. the comments come after attacks on dnipro and the wagner group claiming it fully captured the city of bakhmut. the battle there for control has been the longest of the war. the head of russia s wagner mercenary group has announced that its forces have started withdrawing from the ukrainian city. ukraine denies this. now, one of the country s most senior security officials says ukraine is ready to launch its long expected counter offensive against russian forces. oleksiy danilov has been speaking exclusively, to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. this is what s left of bakhmut in eastern ukraine. images filmed by russian forces of the ruins they now largely control. mercenaries from the wagner group claim they re withdrawing, being replaced by regular russian troops. but ukraine insists its forces are still engaged on the ground and the outskirts, as the country s most senior security official told us. translation: we controljust a small i part of
giant. plus, weeks after the supreme court s ruling on abortion, is it still a top story in key states? we will speak with top editors in texas and georgia about that anymore and later, what is the fine line between informing and overwhelming you? we will talk about that with melissa, coming up, but first, how to decipher debates about disinformation. one of the dominant stories of our time, is a dramatic drift toward a choose your own reality , people are swimming or perhaps drowning in a sea of information, some of it straight up disinformation. meaning something that is made up, on purpose, designed to deceive you. disinformation is a real thing. a real problem. but it is almost impossible to have a conversation about it. this quote from the ap explains why, as trust breaks down polarization and anxiety increases, creating opportunities for people pushing their own alternative facts. in the case of disinformation, the term, the real throwing the real thing, that term has
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i will tell you what he said in private to his fellow moguls. on friday night he tried to back out of his deal to buy twitter. he has been laying the groundwork for doing so, for many weeks. he has been complaining about the proliferation of bots and spam accounts, on the platform that he said he wanted to buy. remember, he agreed, in writing, to go with that twitter take over but now as of friday night, he is trying to back out. well, he was at sun valley, this hush-hush conference on friday and saturday, and he spoke on stage at a session that was treated as off the record, but i am told by a source who was in the room, he did talk more about the bots problem, apparently according to the source, musk doubled down on his claims about bots all across twitter, he said nobody believed, this is paraphrasing but he said nobody believes twitter s claim, that bots are under 5% of the total usage on twitter. so, he apparently went on about the deal, there are some headlines that you will see
subject but i am told he did talk about twitter, he dribbled down on his decision to try to back out of the deal and he is claiming it is about bots. let s analyze that and more. there accidents and claire atkinson back with me. just remind us how this started, because musk originally said he was going to fix the bots problem, the same problem he now says is stopping him from doing the deal. there was an interesting series of events, where at the same time the tech market dropped off the cliff and that includes the value of tesla which is his main source of wealth. all of a sudden, he got really concerned about the bots, and implied maybe that would be a reason why he might want to back out of the deal. he would kind of throw daggers out there, and then walk away and we never quite knew what his intention was. the official launch to where we got to on friday was his lawyer sent twitter a letter and said we think you are withholding information that we need to close the deal. that s