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Breaking news. were standing by for donald trump to speak. he just landed in des moines, iowa. you are looking at live pictures of that rally. hes officially expected to announceme announcement. >> reporter: president elect donald trump is watching on tv look at his twitter feed. it may be a very good indication. >> another great retweet. >> trump often waited on content, especially when it is about him. saturday night he called the show unwatchable while the show was still on. he has an instant...

Of political audience but market share. new studies are documenting a perverse feedback loop where propaganda sources that reenforce popular lies are rewarded with more popularity and economic incentives online. take a look at these headlines which were all fake. these are some of the most-shared stories on facebook during the general election. sharing a story indicates someone thinks the story is probably true. most of these false stories were pro-trump. take a look at this. all but three were ...

Speaking, hes lying. he is operating in a shifting environment, not just in terms of political audience but market share. new studies are documenting a perverse feedback loop where propaganda sources that reenforce popular lies are rewarded with more popularity and economic incentives online. take a look at these headlines which were all fake. these are some of the most-shared stories on facebook during the general election. sharing a story indicates someone thinks the story is probably true. mo...

And they will grab on to it. and some of the people, his fans will know that its not true, what hes saying. but theyll spread it anyway. right? and then you -- theres a feedback loop where they say it so many times and tweet about it, write about it. talk about it on the radio. where they start to believe its true. and in the meantime theyve spread it so far to people who dont have as much information or arent consuming as much news and they believe it. and sometimes i wonder, we throw around th...

And some of the people, his fans will know that its not true, what hes saying. but theyll spread it anyway. right? and then you -- theres a feedback loop where they say it so many times and tweet about it, write about it. talk about it on the radio. where they start to believe its true. and in the meantime theyve spread it so far to people who dont have as much information or arent consuming as much news and they believe it. and sometimes i wonder, we throw around the term liar a lot, lying. and...

Will know that its not true, what hes saying. but theyll spread it anyway. right? and then you -- theres a feedback loop where they say it so many times and tweet about it, write about it. talk about it on the radio. where they start to believe its true. and in the meantime theyve spread it so far to people who dont have as much information or arent consuming as much news and they believe it. and sometimes i wonder, we throw around the term liar a lot, lying. and theyre saying inaccurate things,...

The problem for the more abrasive candidates, the more you hear about bush, the less the voters like him. the more you hear from -- >> hes not abrasive. the more you hear about bush the less you like because of something else. >> he got snippy in the last debate when he was going after rubio. it was kind of a sourness. it was not what you want to see. you want to see sunny optimism. he calls himself the hopeful turtle or something like that. which doesnt necessarily connect with people. what wev...

Redistricting. but its a very particular problem they have to solve. and on the outsider thing, i think were acting as if the outsiderism in the republican party and in republican parts of the country and in kentucky is basically republican, even though theyve elected republican governors, is happening i cross the whole country. trump and carson are getting about half of the 40% of people who are republicans or republican-leaning independents. thats 20% of the country. big deal. it means somethi...

Republicans. but he also points out the idea of a feedback loop. republicans when in office use those electronics to strengthen their constituencies and weaken those of the opposition. and that seems to be a sort of long-term effect. its not just, we have our guys in this year and not in four year, not in two years. this is a sort of systemic change. and if you look at the legislation thats going through state houses across the country, this is the way in which republicans are truly changing the...

None of those people are in the lead with the voters right now. it seems weve got an interesting fork in the road about the predictive models of endorsements or whether were seeing something new that calls those endorsements into question. >> i like to think about this in terms of timing, as well. so when we talk about endorsements being predictive, we really are talking about a period of time before the process starts tarts becoming a feedback loop. i would say a little bit now on the republica...