that s where you have a problem. - one of the challenges has been this tendency to both sides everything. there s always this desire to say, let me try to understand what the other side is saying, and that is a noble, lofty goal. but does that mean you give equal time in trying to understand both arguments? - it takes so much power out of the hands of citizens when they don t know what to believe. - there s so much active misinformation, and it s packaged very well, and it looks the same when you see it on a facebook page. - disinformation is nothing new. what s different now is technology allows it to go much faster, and it takes on very, very different shapes. - you can t escape it. in fact, if you click on it, there s algorithms that are gonna make it even harder for you to escape. - your news? do you get it online? telegram? - no, i just saw on tiktok. - social media changed everything.
and i would not say that we rose to the challenge all that well. - some important developments in our war against the chinese virus. - hate crimes against asians have been on the rise across the country, lately. - 7% of their accounts involve victims who are over 60 years old. - obviously, all kinds of faulty information, fears, and fever dreams course through social media. - it s important to never forget how we got here. this pandemic came out of china, and it came out of china for a reason. - i remember very vividly when vaccine misinformation spread over facebook created a protest movement that shut down one of the largest vaccine sites in the united states. - anti-mask protestors temporarily forced the closure of the dodger vaccination site. - and i remember thinking, wow. this has a tangible impact that is not ignorable. it s not just about people deciding not to have vaccines.
people in the 2010 election cycle was sarah palin. - palin really reemerged attacking obamacare. they really tried to focus on the idea that healthcare would be rationed. would be limited. sarah palin talked about death panels, as if people would have to stand in front of this little group of undoubtedly far-left physicians and healthcare people who would decide, you know, no. sorry. you have to die. - those two words will not be found in any of those thousands of pages of different variations of the healthcare bill. no, death panel isn t there, but he s incorrect, and he is disingenuous. - sarah palin was really a pioneer in that she was really the first politician to spread disinformation like death panels on facebook. you could skirt the established media, go to facebook, go to the internet, and get your message out that way.
and when media becomes part of the cheerleading squad, that s where you have a problem. - one of the challenges has been this tendency to both sides everything. there s always this desire to say, let me try to understand what the other side is saying, and that is a noble, lofty goal. but does that mean you give equal time in trying to understand both arguments? - it takes so much power out of the hands of citizens when they don t know what to believe. - there s so much active misinformation, and it s packaged very well, and it looks the same when you see it on a facebook page. - disinformation is nothing new. what s different now is technology allows it to go much faster, and it takes on very, very different shapes. - you can t escape it. in fact, if you click on it, there s algorithms that are gonna make it even harder for you to escape. - your news? do you get it online? telegram? - no, i just saw on tiktok. - social media changed everything.
one of the most visible and influential people in the 2010 election cycle was sarah palin. - palin really reemerged attacking obamacare. they really tried to focus on the idea that healthcare would be rationed. would be limited. sarah palin talked about death panels, as if people would have to stand in front of this little group of undoubtedly far-left physicians and healthcare people who would decide, you know, no. sorry. you have to die. - those two words will not be found in any of those thousands of pages of different variations of the healthcare bill. no, death panel isn t there, but he s incorrect, and he is disingenuous. - sarah palin was really a pioneer in that she was really the first politician to spread disinformation like death panels on facebook. you could skirt the established media, go to facebook, go to the internet, and get your message out that way.