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
wouldn t have taken the job. the sympathetic view, to you, is that the disinformation board was the victim of disinformation. is that how you feel? it absolutely was the victim of disinformation. all of these narratives, that the disinformation governance board was going to be this ministry of truth and all of the harassment and disinformation that was directed against me, was based on that falsehood. based on that falsehood that was knowingly peddled by many people in the conservative media ecosystem and on capitol hill. that is true, if that is true, what the heck was the homeland security department doing? why didn t they defend you? why didn t the government explain what the heck it was doing? yeah, i have a lot of misgivings about the way things went down and i think the first thing to point out, brian, is that there was a disproportionate focus on me, given my level of power within the department. i was not allowed to speak on my own behalf, and frankly, all the communica
all of this flows downhill from the distrust problem. a lack of trust in all institutions including the media, we can talk about disinformation without talking about trust, a lack of trust. i think the statement about marjorie taylor greene, has multiple campaigns on someone who is trying to so distrust, picking up on what donald trump did, i think that is important sometimes. lauren, you are up after the break. we have brandy reporting about elon musk and twitter. what is going on with that deal. plus the scoop about a me too moment for world wrestling entertainment. what will be revealed, next? boost® high protein also has key nutrients fofor immune support. boost® high protein.
you know, i was just sharing information about a presidential election as it was happening, as millions of other americans were doing, using their right to freedom of speech, that wasn t disinformation, it was sharing news. other people honed in on tweets that completely were stripped of context. the one that conservatives love to amplify was a tweet that they claimed that made me seem like i was calling the hunter biden laptop disinformation when in fact i was just live tweeting a debate. saying the exact words that then candidate biden and president trump were saying during a debate. totally stripped of context. people didn t want to look further into the context. so then, what . i have researched . you believe you were the right hire, the government screwed up with this thing, now the question is now what, was the new york times writes that this was an unresolvable problem, there is nothing washington can do because republicans can not even agree with what disinformation is?
didn t report a violent threat, something like we re coming for you and your family, you and your family should be sent to russia to be killed, end encouraged me to commit suicide. howard: well, i m sorry that nina jankowicz was subjected to these kinds of comments and threats which is, unfortunately, quite common, but since when does the biden administration take any if action just because conservative commentators don t like it? this one might be a first if it were true. let s count the ways in which this is sodly nonsensical. first of all, it would seem to me if you had a disinformation governance board, it might be at least showing some competency in doing away with, i don t know, disinformation. so i guess it was a purpose for this board if it was shut down birdies information, if i simply take her at her word. they couldn t combat the first instance they encountered. second, it wasn t disinformation, it was everybody telling the truth about this board, and your job might be to