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Upset that were salassous in nature. the new york times said he was briefed on efforts by the russians. and he was informed of potential or alleged efforts by russians. it is interesting. and buzz feed said this is a good excuse to publish for the world to see unsubstanteated allegations which is a wild and editor of the website wrote the anguished note, oh, my gosh, we struggled with this and in the end. >> it is not journalism not to vet something and then put it out there is not journalism. a...

Members of the press themselves as they play a different brand of offense with this administration. >> neil: hes not a fan of the press. hes said that. he was saying kind things about about the press they were not all following the buzz feed and cnn didnt take it to the level buzz feed did. but the signal seemed to be. it seemed like not press conferences as usual. it was rapid fire and what about that fire? >> i think it is refreshing and as kennedy said there is a new sheriff in town. and the ...

Corner say i think this or that. >> you pull out what boxers do. go into the bathroom and psych yourself out in a positive way make sure im in control of myself. im not going to lose my cool. im an adult. its okay if somebody disagrees with me. >> you have been doing this a long time. are there generally more arguments at christmas or thanksgiving or with your family after a democrat won or after a republican won because it seems like, you know, you go on buzz feed or these websites ten things t...

House? i happened to be in the press briefing room and the concerns were -- i had a chance to ask josh earnest about it and here is what he told me. >> i think as an american, i am concerned about that. i do this that this inner action that takes place in here for a daily bases is one thats good for our democracy. it is instrument to hold people in power accountable for their actions and statements and premises. >> we got buzz feed and you got a lot of now outlets and some of them like very much...

Be for that. >> what we need is jobs programs. the reality is. >> oh, come on. >> appointing a ceo. the reality is appoint ago ceo of gold map saks as our financing advisor. >> im taking you seriously and you are repeating dumb liberal social points. be you are not a socialist. you are a lifestyle liberal upset about the same boring rich people topics. look at the economics of it. >> im looking at the economics. i feel like you are trying to get us distracted the key message is that young people...

In detroit. sounds like they might want to. we will continue to mop tore that story as it develops. well, up next, if you read buzz feed, you may have noticed a piece recently why kate arthur. a reporter there. and she wrote it about chip and joanna gains. the couple behind the popular hgtv show. attacked for christian faith against gay marriage. more precisely their church is against same sex marriage. the title of the piece chip and joannas church against same sex marriage. tammy bruce has wri...

Seriously, when it started to come out in early november i thought it was so ludicrous, so disgusting, people trying to link her to a pedophilia ring. i just dismissed it. maybe i shun the have. maybe we should have tried to debunk it more clearly early on. buzz feed did good work on that. there are steps we can take, there are no -- >> thats hard, because you give life to it. >> during the campaign there were some rational people who i thought before -- they started believing these things that ...

Join me. good evening to all of you. you have been talking a lot about fake news during this election. this is a prime example of what can happen when people latch on to these conspiracy theorys. is there a way to keep this fake news from circulating and inspiring these extremist views? >> this is the question i dread this is a hard question, it doesnt have a satisfied answer right now. there are lots of things individuals can do. some things that newsrooms can do. i didnt take pizza gate seriou...

Instagram or to the employees of the restaurant. >> right. >> even to the scared customers that were there when the incident happened. yesterday, if you take a step back and look at it from a 30,000 foot perspective we are talking about affecting the outcome of the presidential election. buzz feed did an analysis that said the 19 most shared stories that were fake leading up to election day in the three months were shared more than the 20 most shared stories coming from real news sources. fake n...

Welsh was arrested and nobody was hurt. the incident calling attention to fake news has on americans. jacob soboroff is joining us now from la with more on this. what do we know of the fake news story of this? >> reporter: it is part of a much larger problem, thomas, the proliferation of fake news has just exploded since that 2016 presidential election, this incident, started on reddit. it was through social media and affected the lives of the owner of this pizzeria and now affe affected them in...