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Bomb and planted victory gardens and put women in factories. you mean to tell me you wont subscribe to the local paper? really? is this too hard? >> it goes to what is the responsibility of the citizen here? >> dont be gullible. dont make room for gullibility any more. >> it is hard to fight it. its repetitive. it is doing things in ways that have never been possible through a newspaper. by the way, nobody is reading newspapers and shouldnt be. this is great to be able to get this information on...

It starts inching in the mainstream and the pundit says, whats this about? then they might have a provocative headline link, he says it in a friendly way and then it makes it to your facebook feed. how do you have accountability for basically dealing with propaganda? >> its hard work. it begins by trying to construct the young conservatives in the annals of jo institutions thats longstanding amongeed no evidence to forward a fact. or they dont believe in certain verified sources, credentialed so...

Aliens have predicted who will be the president this year, and you move past it. maybe some people get a chuc maybe some people believe it, but its the minority of the population. today you cant ignore it because its everywhere. the second you go on one of these platforms, social media in particular, youre confronted by it. >> i hear you in terms of the distrust among conservatives of institutions right about that. i do, however, know a lot of conservatives who are god-fearing people and who rem...

The solution for those of us who consider ourselves journalists. i think one of the issues that i have with the way were fighting back against this is were trying to fight back with information. but journalists are not in the information business. we are in the trust business. trust is an emotion. you compete head-to-head. you connect heart-to-heart and the enragement speaks to the fact people are seeing information that provokes an emotional response. trust is emotional too. like love. you dont...

Embedded now in how one party is communicating with its core people that its a chain that works. i agree with cara. not only can you not break it, but their design, their goal is to get people to say, i dont care. not even necessarily to say i believe this lie. their goal is not necessarily to persuade the unpe ukraine intervened in the 2016 election. thi their goalbout the 2020 election and were talking at the very end of 2019, this is going to be the major driver, really, in politics. when you...

Both of you. marty, first to you, and then dean. i want to put up this poll number. when folks were asked in a cbs poll, where do they go for trusted information, among trump supporters, they cited the president himself. 91% of trump supporters say thats where they go for accurate information. fact checks be damned here. >> well, thats true. and i think thats the way the president would like to have it. he has described us as the opposition party. that goes all the way back to the presidential c...

Human beings. its news organizations or we can put news in quotes here. i want to single out two in particular. rt and sputnik. they seem to be the launching pad for this specific conspiracy. >> thats right. there are four attributes you look for in terms of spreading some sort of propaganda. one, be there first. two, repeat it over and over and over again. the human mind actually cant resist repetition. three, its got to come from a trusted source. these are trusted sources. >> for some people....