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Going to be okay. >> emily: and even with efforts of public officials to keep the threshold, with impunity, thieves are rubbing more than that as well. >> guy: people respond to incentives, including criminals. when you look at san francisco were a lot of crime has been decriminalized effectively by this district attorney and thus less drink i out here, criminals have gotten the memo and shoplifting and events like thi. i saw that d.a., who, as committee pointed out is up against the recall effo...

Users, right? who take advantage of the core problem of facebook which isnt actually lies. its, you know, i hate to use the word, but size. facebook is too big to monitor its own platform and the incentive structure is all messed up. so folks who want to spread a political message or want you to buy their vitamins or just maybe like chewbacca mom, everyone is looking for this virality and everybody is looking to grow big, grow rich and tell lies through this incentive structure. so you know, we ...

Then we will talk about tucker carlsons new program. this is tucker and laura ingraham. >> potentially every single case there were fbi agents really in the capitol on january 6th. no reason person thinks what happened at january 6th was the worst attack on the capitol since the civil war. when are they going to admit there was no insurrection? never. >> again, i dont -- i dont know whats going through their heads. i dont totally understand the incentive structure for smearing law enforcement. i...

You know, facebook especially changed the incentive structure and particularly for smaller news outlets no choice but to essentially follow the facebook algorithm to maintain traffic, which created this death spiral of news consumption. >> yeah, i think one of the interesting things is that a lot of tech people are like you are mad at us because you ruined our business. were like, you ruined everything. you decimated it. >> by the way, i dont mind our business being ruined, kara. ruin my busines...

Beyond this platforms are incentivized to extract our personal data often times that her consent, turned around and select advertisers. this number of legislative interventions of pieces of policy and they are likely to be implemented before the end of the year and that starts with protecting her kids. there is a level of bipartisanship that we see on this issue that we, when comes to protecting our kids, that takes us a level above politics and its very likely that we see updates of the top of ...

To be rocky. >> it felt like there used to be a sense of shame that existed to a degree about these sorts of mistruths or lies or disinformation that -- maybe im being naive. maybe im nostalgic. >> you are naive, tapper. >> maybe i am. maybe i am. it did feel like there was a time where if somebodys rhetoric -- like donald trumps rhetoric going after journalists or democratic politicians or whatever, created somebody who was literally sending pipe bombs to news organizations, to politicians, tha...

Whatever, created somebody who was literally sending pipe bombs to news organizations, to politicians, that that would create a sense of shame and responsibility, and that politician would tone it down. we are way beyond that. nobody cares anymore. theres no incentive structure thats built -- other than if -- if shame doesnt exist. >> the consequence is loss of power. its always been that way. violence is part of our national heritage. we had a civil war, for god sakes. when the rhetoric gets to...

Going unup. theres an incentive structure. thats why we say the business model is the problem. of engagement at all costs means that the things people have searched, thats what goes viral and viralty is not safe for our country. >> that term viralty, it sounds so cold and clinical. let me ask you, lets look at the cover of time magazine. delete facebook. is what is being asked of people. there in that prompt over the face of mark zuckerberg. why do you think just to push back a little bit, i sup...

About dumbing down in education. all those people that have grown up and gotten into power. it is, you know, our discourse in this country is dumber, meaner, crueling but lets focus on the dumb right now. its like were too exhausted to even try to come up with co-her -- cohaerent arguments. part of the problem is nobody feels the need to have facts and logic or try to persuade anyone of anything so all you do is you come up with these sort of mad lib word salads or these little memes that you th...

Republicans. i wonder what you think about these events overnight. >> well, i think, i mean, it is good, obviously, were as a nation avoiding economic calamity and, you know, seriously harming our fellow americans in the near term, but were going to probably have to be at the same point at the end of november, beginning of december. the larger issue here is that our government spends much more money than it takes in. and this has been a bipartisan affliction, bipartisan problem forever. there wa...