is worth over $100 million as of his last filing. we are talking about a way to become an incredibly wealthy person by giving people false information. max fisher and sheera frenk frenkel great reporting, both of you. really appreciate it. thanks. thank you. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now with ali velshi in for rachel. good evening, chris. another great show. thank you. have yourself an excellent evening and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it s a big news day again today. against all odds, a landmark bipartisan infrastructure package has advanced tonight in the united states senate. we will be talking to senator john tester, one of the senators who helped negotiate that deal, in just a moment. and hopefully, he can walk us through exactly what is in the bill. but first, we have got breaking news, right off the top. here is the brand new headline tonight at the washington post. quote, as trump pushed for probes
his last filing. we are talking about a way to become an incredibly wealthy person by giving people false information. max fisher and sheera frenk frenkel great reporting, both of you. really appreciate it. thanks. thank you. that is all in for this evening. the rachel maddow show starts right now with ali velshi in for rachel. good evening, chris. another great show. thank you. have yourself an excellent evening and thanks to you at home for joining us this hour. it s a big news day again today. against all odds, a landmark bipartisan infrastructure package has advanced tonight in the united states senate. we will be talking to senator john tester, one of the senators who helped negotiate that deal, in just a moment. and hopefully, he can walk us through exactly what is in the bill. but first, we have got breaking news, right off the top. here is the brand new headline tonight at the washington post. quote, as trump pushed for probes of 2020 election, he called actin
administration, msnbc, cnn. they were much more likely to be vaccinated. that s the line in green. and only single digits, line red, say they would not get vaccinated. the people who watch fox news, on the other hand, only 64% were vaccinated. 19% would not get the shot so a big difference there. it gets even worse, when people got their covid news from facebook. 20% not getting the vaccine while a third news max viewers do not plan on getting vaccinate. thing is, a lot of people peddling disinformation on sources like facebook are making a lot of money off doing it. i want to bring in two new york times reporters who have been covering this growth. max fisher, who wrote about the booming shadow disinformation business. and sheera frenkel, also, author co-author of an ugly truth inside facebook s battle for domination which is out. good to have you both on the program.
sheera, let me start with you because i found a lot of discussion about disinformation has felt a little abstract. the numbers feel hard to get your head around. i think slightly distrustful of them just because it s never clear to me anyone really knows what anyone is seeing. so your piece was like, nicely concretizing. so just describe who this individual is, and what what his reach is. you know, we wanted to profile one person. the most influential person in the anti-vaccination world for exactly that reason. it can feel really obscure and it can really unclear when we are talking about people who are anti-vaccine activists. he has found this gray area between social-media sites where he can promote anti-vaccine ideology. and still, have over a million followers on just one of his facebook pages. i will note, we found, actually, 17 facebook pages that he was running. and through those, he is able to really seed and spread this idea that covid vaccines aren t safe, and that peopl