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Talk to your kids about the apps that they use. keep a conversation going about it. i know it's like not the most fun thing to do but you have got to have that conversation. then always, always, always. use security protection on all your family's devices even phones and tablets that your kids are using. >> steve: scary thing to a parent about this is it is the people who are responding are within five miles. it's like they are really close. it's not like somebody is, you know, typing in from canada or something. they could be just down the street. >> well, the problem with it is it is anonymo...

There's another one in colorado is falling for this. how are they so gullible? >> it says a lot about how people process information in a very hyper partisan world, right? i mean, like, one of the things that's the hardest thing about combating this information, or disinformation, is just how strongly people want to believe it when it confirms a prior worldview that they have, and it confirms an us versus them mentality. and then you compound that with the simple fact that everybody has a supercomputer in their pocket where they can communicate with everybody instantly -- and shred that, and t...

In tears and always the end of a career in failure. janet daley, was this one written in the stars from long ago? or was it genuinely a surprise in the end, how... it wasn't a surprise to anybody — except for boris johnson, apparently. it was remarkable for one thing, in that it was not to do with policy, it was to do with personality. and the removal of him was being demanded, not because he had made some horrendous mistake in the way he had handled government or dealt with legislation, but because he was considered to be dishonourable, and that puts this in a very different category. and t...

He referred to this herd mentality that pushed him out, obviously, he felt unjustly, even at the end, he did not have enough self—knowledge to understand that it was his character. in fact, when he was abroad and interviewed about this, he said, "if you're expecting me to reconstruct my personality or my character, that's not going to happen." and that's absolutely right, that's not going to happen. and he was caught out in a series of what have to be assumed to be deliberate lies and obfuscations. he refused, even to the end, after three or four interviewers asked him whether he had made th...

It was remarkable for one thing, in that it was not to do with policy, it was to do with personality. and the removal of him was being demanded, not because he had made some horrendous mistake in the way he had handled government or dealt with legislation, but because he was considered to be dishonorable, and that puts this in a very different category. and the tragedy is, i suppose, if you would call it — comic tragedy — is that even at the end, as you said, he referred to this herd mentality that pushed him out, obviously, he felt unjustly, even at the end, he did not have enough self—...