the state of our politics at this moment. even though some republican leaders have condemned the attack, news has been flooded with a what about and conspiracy theories and disinformation from a whole host of right-winged media figures. all of this happening while he s still in intensive care. and while an active investigation is underway, a little more than an hour ago, federal prosecutors filed two charges, attempting to challenge a federal official. federal officials allege the attacker broke into the home intending to kidnap and hurt speaker pelosi and he came armed with a hammer and brought a rope, white tape, and zip ties. he told paul pelosi, he wanted to speaker to, quote, tell the truth. political reports that the attacker had, quote, inhabited a vifd and resentment-fueled world of conspiracy while living a fringed existence, even by the standards of the san francisco bay area, that he appears to embrace falsehoods about the without outcome of the 2020 election. the
As the nuance i mentioned, they say their policy on hateful content has not changed at this time and they attribute the rise in hate speech to a small number of accounts that they say are, quote, inauthentic. so that s some of the perspective and the nuance. now let s bring in george salim, senior vice president for the anti-defamation league, which fights hate, anti-semitism and other types of bigotry. and molly young fast, a contributing writer at the atlantic and host of the politics podcast. welcome to both of you. george, i tried to show some of the examples without fanning it. i tried to be very fair to what twitter is publicly asserting or claiming. they claim they haven t made any change on the back end. so that this is more about what we might call a reaction to elon expectations or culture and not the tech itself. with all that said, what do you think is important about what we re seeing? thanks, ari. this is an important issue to bring up in the here and now. but what s