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Normal. its what we saw last night. at least one trump was in 16 in entering his presidency, there was a back and forth. sometimes you couldnt tell who was leading who. right now fox is an organ of trump. so there is no more confusion about which direction its being polled, who is steering the ship. its totally now a full appendage of trump. whats scary about that is that trump is increasingly organizing power on the extremes and what would be considered the fringes. fox news will become an acce...

Organizing power on the extremes and what would be considered the fringes. fox news will become an accelerant for normalizing all kinds of extreme ideas that even they havent been willing to touch for a while. that dynamic you played out is only going to intensify and get worse. we saw the real first played last night. they didnt just give him the town hall. they called the program and gave it to him during prime time. simply because thats what trump wanted. >> in an interview on fox is brett ba...

>> bret: here is the sound bite you reference evidence from this weekend about social media. >> do you think that social media may have made your depression worse at the time? >> oh, yeah, anybody. its an accelerant, absolutely. i would just warn anybody that social media -- i have never noticed anyone believe their mental health has been supported by spending any kind of time on social media. >> bret: thats really important as we think about tiktok and other venues that have been singled out he...

Apparently he was struggling with that idea himself with the stroke. he points out social media on the interview this weekend points out that social media was an accelerant. the volume of negativity affected his children, made them frightened and confused, made him more depressed. downhill spiral. we saw a recent warning from the surgeon general of the united states about the role social media is playing in depression. then goes into the hospital and his kids visit him and he gets some courage b...

And as far as i can tell, its almost as effective. >> yeah. the thing that is changed, i think, is the iterative nature of the media. your ability to talk back in a social environment. what that does is i think it can work as an accelerant. right? somebody says a lie to you, you repeat the lie back to them. okay, heres a bigger lie. you repeat that to them -- it helps those messages be targeted better, i think. but i mean, yeah, theres a very, very famous celebrity pilot in her day. pilots used ...

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