School here in the audience. I hope you enjoy that and continue to participate in the event. We have an exciting panel today. Lets get started with some questions. Many of the questions were prepared in advance. Lets start with questions about news in the current year. Its only been a year since the president ial election. It is hard to remember when fake facebook wasnt part of fake news. no matter how bad it was for their candidate or how bad it was it allowed them to assume it was coming from a biased point of view and therefore they ignored it it has not been typical of american campaigns have a slightly different view. We focus on the elections and it figures a letter that moore versus the cost and my background in psychology in a lot of the research that incentives of how people believe what they want to believe and really smart people have access to all the news they should know Better Believe what they want to believe. People will believe what they want to believe. Certainly soc
On synonymous with fake news. Whats your take on fake news and its impact on the outcome of the 2016 election . I think the microphone microphone. I think the impact of fake news was to allow primarily the trump voters to discount what was going on in the mainstream media, no matter how bad it was for their candidate or how bad it was factually. They just it allowed them to assume that it was coming from a biased point of view, and that, therefore, they ignored it. That has not been typical of american campaigns in the past. So, i have a slightly different view on fake news in the sense that i think we focus a lot on the fact that, you know, this news might have, you know, changed the results of the election, and i think of fake news more of a symptom versus a cause, so i think its a symptom of the polarization thats in this country. So my backgrounds in psychology, and a lot of the research that gets done is about how people believe what they want to believe, and really smart people w
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Washington journal continues. Host are there policy areas or think reas that you democrats and republican consist Work Together and come together on . Hat is the question we want to ask you for remaining time together. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. Independents, you can give us your thoughts, too, 2027488002. Want to join the they ion on twitter can Work Together, one of the other areas being highlighted in he papers this morning, especially on front page of u. S. A. Today, potential shut ofn when it comes to matters the budget, members of the house nd senate apropriations ommittee plan to have a deal ready the week of april 24. About a dozen days before the 28th. Ne, april President Trump complicated the work by sending over emergency billion for 30 defense programs and 3 billion for Border Security and that 1. 5 billion for offset cost with domestic programs, tradeoff that democrats and some republicans oppose. Lets hear first up on the idea and eas where demo