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All right. so we often use the terms misinformation and disinformation interchangeably. but there is a real difference between the two. misinformation, quite frankly, has always been around. but it is a challenge that we are now always dealing with as a result of social media and 24-hour information streams where the connected world make its so easy to circulate incorrected information that gets floated and shared. disinformation, on the other hand, is when people deliberately put incorrect or f...

Out? >> hi. thanks for having me. this ongoing damage by some of these people that continue to spread misinformation and disinformation on covid and this ongoing pandemic has been going on for almost two years now. and its incredibly dangerous. the divisiveness that remains in our country stemmed from day one of this pandemic, and it continues today. and these conspiracy theories that especially are spread by people in office right now, elected leaders, elected officials especially, those with d...

Community for you all to learn the lesson that covid is here, its not going away, and the less people continue to protect themselves and the less people get vaccinated and the more you spread conspiracy theories about the vaccine and all these other things about mask mandates, the more youre hurting the people that elected you to protect them. >> yeah, and youre seeing this play out unfortunately pretty much across party lines, because, as we showed earlier, you have 60% of republicans who are u...

Information. >> i think those are great examples of things that are obviously not true and that are kind of political propaganda that are lies, that are very old kinds of falsehoods. i think theres a big spectrum of stuff that is not that clear and that we like to apply this kind of simple framework of misinformation, too. like, through the trump years, progressives believed a lot of things that turned out not to have been true about trump about russia for instance. was that misinformation? was ...

With you. i think you bring up a really good point because i immediately think of 2003 when the governor, the bush administration manipulated the media by leaking claims that there were weapons of mass destruction, which we knew to be false, only then to turn around and cite the actual media reports as evidence that there are other sources out there saying that iraq has weapons of mass destruction. so i agree that there has always been this kind of symbiotic relationship where the government tri...

Whats true and whats false and i think that gets lost. >> when you showed this earlier in the show when you have a big part of society that consumes right-wing media channel like fox and other sources of information, they are not getting vaccinated because they believe that the vaccine is harmful or that the vaccine, as fox was saying, part of a global conspiracy to help democrats, and as ronny jackson said as part of a midterm election variant to stoke those fears, what are you saying the role ...

Ending the week with a briefing. just three days ago, secretary tillerson was fired by president trump and his replacement is seat to be the now former cia director, mike pompeo. he will most certainly get confirmed. sarah sanders saying theres no more personnel announcements to announce. and that the chief of staff, john kelly, talked to his staff about that today. she also had no additional information on a meeting with north korea, though that that discussion is ongoing and monday, the presid...

That will determine why this bridge collapsed. we could note some information from the ntsb in about a weeks team, dana. >> dana: steve, theres records that the bridge was undergoing a stress test when it collapsed. how can you have a stress test when theres people there? >> would be baffling if a stress test did occur while traffic was going on underneath that bridge. keep in mind, these are unconfirmed reports, including one from the mayor of miami-dade. could be that the politicians are ahead...

Process. >> youll brief the committee about whatever they want to know about her tenure? >> im sorry? >> the white house will be fulfilling as about running the black site in thailand? >> well be as cooperative as we can. we want to make sure people have an accurate reflection. rand paul made comments on incorrected information. we want to make sure that they have accurate information, particularly before they go out and speak on behalf of their constituents. as a member of the united states sen...

With uae or seychelles or anywhere else. >> dana: i do want to ask you about george nader. he had cooperated with mueller. he had done some work for ben zayed. hes cooperating. you see the records that he might be an unreliable witness, accused of sexually abusing minors and sentenced to a one-year prison term in may 2003 in prague for crimes that occurred between 1999 and 2002. is this the most reliable witness? >> yeah, thats a stacked question. he is probably the very definition of an unusabl...