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Maybe uninformed voters are. he sees it as almost some kind of meta performance piece. arguably he's been effective in that. maybe too effective. >> yeah, because i don't know if it came from paul horner, but general mike flynn, the man that trump wants to name as his national security adviser, this tweet remains on his twitter account today. let's put it on the screen so we can take a look. this is his tweet. it came from something called true pundit.com. you decide, nypd blows whistle on new hillary e-mails, money laundering, sex crimes with children, et cetera, must read. so you look at tha...

"fortune" and kate lynn dewy, "the washington post" reporter. welcome to both of you. kate lynn, you interviewed paul horner. what did you take away from that? when i read your article, i didn't know what to make of paul horner, frankly. >> you know, even after speaking with him, i'm not sure i know what to make of him either, to be quite frank. i think he is grappling with an issue that a lot of us are grappling with at this time which is we have this sudden understanding that there is a flood of fake news on facebook, but we don't know exactly what sort of impact that had. even as a writer o...

Let's face it. balancing reality versus fact this election has been exhausting and at times disturbing. fake news headlines skyrocketed this campaign season, blitzing social media as donald trump and his team fielded deep distrust in mainstream media. did the blatantly false stories really matter when it came to electing mr. trump? self-proclaimed post writer and founder of a facebook fake news empire, paul horner, is now speaking out. he talked with "the washington post" and here's some of what he said. he said quote, i think trump is in the white house because of me. his campaign manager pos...

>> right. i think it's important to remember that people don't share things on facebook because they are true. for most people, they just don't care. they share things because they make them feel a certain way, because they confirm biases they already have and i think we saw that phenomenon on facebook during this election. they effectively weaponized human nature, our desire to share something because it triggers some strong emotion, and not spend the time to fact-check. >> so i would feel terrible posting something that i knew was untrue. i would feel horrible about doing that. so why doesn'...