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formerly president and would be the largest story in the political universe if it were about anyone else who has fewer legal problems. that is my factual introduction to the ongoing civil defamation and sexual assault/rape trial for donald trump. e. jean carroll alleges donald trump raped her in the 1990s. today is the sixth day of the trial and we are learning a lot as we are right in the heart of it. the jury also heard in a way from trump himself, but not live. instead, this jury, w...

Designed to have a politically useful effect on audiences, we realized that was part of what russia did in their attack on us. it wasnt the biggest part of what they did, but it was alarming that they radically upscaled over the course of 2015 and 2016 this sort of counterfeiting of the news process. so that became part of our national discussion about what russia had done, what russia harnessed to try to interfere in our election in order to benefit donald trump. and the term that was most easi...

Enhance divisions among democrats or make democrats feel like it wasnt worth it to vote. these made-up stories were also just sort of brutalizing made-up outraged stories about terrible bar barrism to make you feel like we were at the end of the line in terms of human beings being able to live alongside one another. when we came to understand what russia did in the 2016 election, those made-up false stories designed to have a politically useful effect on audiences, we realized that was part of w...

Fake news process and then kick it into over drive. nbc news jacob ward is joining me now. i want to talk about the implications of this. obviously if artificial intelligence is made to be like human intelligence or emphasize the things that human brains can do but faster. it is important to understand, it is a non-profit organization, trying to create some sort of standard and free work and governing the responsible development of artificial intelligence in the future. they looked at many probl...

Reason to be concerned? >> well i think there is legitimate reason to be concerned because you are seeing the text messages that -- that do show a buy as but we have to remember that peter strzok get losts in the news process, that he also said bad things about hillary clinton and about bernie sanders. so it wasnt just isolated to donald trump. we also have to keep in mind that peter strzok wanted to testify to clear his name. hes been under assault from the gop and from the far right for the pa...

How it was that russia seemingly knew where to place fake news during the election cycle. adam schiff and others have been asking, is it possible that the trump campaign shared information with russia or conversely received information from russia that could have helped that fake news process along. its interesting and important that theyre finally going to get to talk to brad parscale who is in the best position to explain how the data operation worked. >> shepard: along the same lines, there w...

Murdered i would go check it out. i read news stories before. you know, if they write about your town, you go no, that is calculated a baritone, journalists are lazy, if were going to start sensor them all for being buffoons, then rolling stones is going to be censors for the story they wrote badly. and we had a woman who lied about her veil being ripped off. and that horrible story, i was on the train. totally made up. >> are you sure about that? >> well, there is no evidence to support it. its...

Murdered i would go check it out. i read news stories before. you know, if they write about your town, you go no, that is calculated a baritone, journalists are lazy, if were going to start sensor them all for being buffoons, then rolling stones is going to be censors for the story they wrote badly. and we had a woman who lied about her veil being ripped off. and that horrible story, i was on the train. totally made up. >> are you sure about that? >> well, there is no evidence to support it. its...

Craft those moments of sort of these intangible esoteric things and put them together into something that connection people. we try to do the same thing but with a more political, social avenue. if you were to look at our process, hes much more our process than the news is. >> very similar to the way i put my show together. >> i really need to change. >> we have to have the logistics and mechanics of one but the process the material goes through is not a news process. >> its fact checking. >> it...

>> even though you identify yourself as fake news and having -- built with a fake news process -- >> we dont say fake. fake is wrong. that is a misnomer that we use and its not news anything. were commenting on the news. >> i think that you think of it differently but i think a lot of people who watch your show and cable news think of what we do as not being that different which sucks for me because i used to be the mildly amusing person talking like using humor to tell the story of the wasteful...