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Potentially awful. and trump seems to be taking us there daily with some of his cabinet picks, with his statements. talking about sewing chaos. we have elected you know, the chaos sewer in chief undermining the validity of intelligence reports, undermining the work of the press, of various government institutions, democratic institutions. so but on the other hand, i feel like weve been reporting on this all along. but a, people dont read us. i remember going out into the country talking to voter...

Disinformation agents like in russia, plus click baiters, plus crazy people are all coming together and creating a global fake news empire. >> and p.j., to come back to you for a second. pew research did a study from january to february and found that 62% of americans get their news on social media. 18 misdo often. two in ten adults get their news from print newspapers. meanwhile, buzzfeed did a poll this past tuesday, an online survey of over 3,000 adults, fake news americans, fool american adu...

Profitable, and hes been very successful with that in dealing with challenging circumstances. its a different question what is someone who has that background and knowledge and skills bring to the job of secretary of state, thats something we have to find out over time. >> kurt volker former u.s. ambassador to nato thanks for joining us today. >> thank you. a new report says russia may not stop with just meddling with u.s. politics, buzzfeed reporting u.s. intelligence officials warned europea...

Europe to a small town called veles, macedonia where buzzfeed traced a hundred domain names to this small town creating fake news. a young man tells us hes made upwards of $60,000 creating bogus news headlines in a town where the annual income is around $4800. we had a word with him. this is what he told us. >> really, he says, the fake news game is pretty straightforward. >> you see what people like and give them. if they like water you give water. if they like wine, give wine. its simple. >> r...

Generally factual and now just being entirely abused. >> 100%. the people who are running the sites that publish 100% fake stuff, they watch what people at real news sites are doing. they pay very close attention to which headlines are trending on facebook and they move towards that and they invent stories that fit within the realm of things that are going on but have that extra tweet to it and present as real. as you said, people are seeing these headlines go by on a facebook news feed where th...

Buzzfeed news survey as the story goes live. most americans who see fake news believe it, new survey says. respondents were shown a random selection of six headlines, three true and three false. 70% of the time they thought fake headlines were somewhat or very accurate. 80% of real headlines to be accurate. thats just the tip of the iceberg. joining me to flesh out the numbers the editor of buzzfeed news and wrote one of the greatest stories of the campaign cycle about the town in macedonia that...

In this story in particular where his own was not only used to perpetuate the fake news story but people came back to attack this gentleman on it and taken private since then. i want to talk about this today. i was scheduled to be there tonight at comet ping-pong before any of this has happened. this is truly a phenomenon, this phenomenon of fake news thats stretched from here in southern california to there in washington, dc and all the way to macedonia where people are making a living off fake...

Focused more broadly on this whole idea, the impact of fake news. you spoke to the owner at comet ping pong not too long back. what is your take, and what does he have to say about this? >> you know, its amazing, peter, because we were scheduled actually to go meet him tonight. we were going to fly out from here in los angeles and talk to him about, at the time, the limited real-life ramifications of this fake news, which were bullying, harassment of himself and his employees through instagram, ...

Things. there are unintended consequences with doing this. oh, by the way, there are two ways to look at the deal. he saved 1,000 jobs or carrier just got tax incentives to outsource 800 jobs to mexico. >> for the parent company which is a major defense contractor with business with the federal government. >> look, its a short-term huge political win. >> who is the governor of indiana. more on that in a moment. lets talk about the bitterness and after effects. you have done this before. i was co...

Votes than the paper ballots. the problem is that is very easily explained by simple geography and demographics. if you look at where the electronic machines are in wisconsin, where the paper votes are in wisconsin, its entirely consistent with that. >> hallie, i read i guess a buzzfeed article or a link to an article this weekend that said -- you dont think i read -- >> i like that youre reading buzzfeed. >> she didnt think i read because i go to alabama. maybe we dont have to be -- anyway, so ...