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Paulie did say he listens to a liberal radio host, but that part was sort of garbled, so we cut that out. this is an original. people are in their own echo chambers and get their own information. coming up on the show, were actually going to have people who did the voter fraud study. were going back to the original primary source for you to tell you what they found in terms of whether there was any actual voter fraud in this election. >> we didnt have the time on the show, but on youtube yesterd...

From north carolina to washington, d.c. to this restaurant. conspiracy theories themselves are nothing new, but the internet makes them more powerful, makes them more pernicious. the worlds greatest invention for truth ever, access to every fact ever, also allows people to wall themselves off into these digital echo chambers and were seeing that very vividly on days like today. >> brian, stay with us. i want to bring in the panel. david chalian, its not just that were seeing these more and more,...

With pizzagate is lying. >> brian joins us now. i mean, you can look at this and say this is another example that were in this post-truth world that so many people talked about during the campaign. >> indeed. and i dont think all of us are in that world, anderson, but many of us. its hard to have precise data about this. you know, millions of people saw this pizzagate conspiracy theory idea online. most people dismissed it, but some clearly believed it. at least one man enough to drive from nort...

Thing, suddenly the claim has to be -- even if debunked, it takes on an authority. >> yes. and it has consequences. >> that has consequences. >> for our allies, for our adversaries, for the other branches of government and, of course, let us not forget the citizens of the united states of america. he either doesnt grasp that or doesnt care. and this is all happening, chris, at a time in our technological history when we are living in, you know, as americans, 330 million individual echo chambers ...

Chris, at a time in our technological history when we are living in, you know, as americans, 330 million individual echo chambers and those echo chambers are served and guaranteed by social media which just feed us more and more and more of what we have expressed interest of in the past. one of the problems with media coverage of trumps lies is that it hardly matters. >> right. >> because the people who get it and we at the mainstream media get the straight dope but half the media is getting the...

>> by the way, did any of you see those debates? well, i stood next to donald trump for four-and-a-half hours proving conclusively i have the stamina to be president and commander-in-chief. >> brian stelter, in terms of the campaign over the past five or six days, 70,000 tv ads played, 92% negative, only 8% with any kind of positive, 8% to 10% had a positive message. today is about voting, brian stelter, about tomorrow it will be about what kind of tone is left in this country still, isnt it? >>...

Anyway. so why did he even ask? >> religiocity had no bearing on anything here. it was about command, conquest and kill. i know some were allegedly shot in the legs and only injured by this person but this is all about a power trip, all about his 15-minutes of fame which, of course, had took him 15 rounds of ammo, at the very minimum, to accomplish his point. the rules have changed and this is how people go about these things, these people who live in the echo chambers of their own mind and have...

Never do a pretaped interview. im not going to talk about that issue anymore, because every time i gain momentum the liberal press says lets talk about gay rights. and im just not going to fall for that anymore. >> so some context here. the interview was taped. but wasnt chomd. asked about, all was aired on tv. being gay is a choice significant, some of the media echo chambers as conspiracy theories about 9/11 do and theories about the presidents religion do. a gay rights activist most prominent...

Theory seems appealing. the other thing i think is contributing to what you describe, i think youre right on on that, is social media, which are on balance a terrific thing for freedom and for information getting out there. if you have isolated networks, they can be kind of echo chambers and if theyre politically polarized and full of anger or distrust, then they can start believing something thats baseless or ridiculous. >> when we talk about conspiracy theories, we tend to speak about them in ...

What the series of events were, theres still going to be a lot of people who arent convinced by that, who still want to believe their own version of what took place. >> well, thats right. just remember the jfk conspiracy theories. there are still many people -- possibly the majority of americans -- who disbelieve the warren report, who disbelieve the formal informational authorities or the formal even media authorities and possess a great deal of distrust in whatever information is given to them...