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The main point is that the promise of cashing in on this partisan gravy train was enough to stop most people from speaking out, until they were compelled to do it. so bill stepien testified that he separated from trump after the election because his actions were not honest or professional. but stepien still pockets 10k a month from the save america pac and 12 of his 15 federal candidates this cycle are vocal backers of the big lie. that's one high profile example, right? the big lie is self-reinforcing. it has been sold to the base, which controls most partisan primaries, and so candidates and...

Chris murphy said a deal could be done by the end of the week. but nbc news learned that the group is now hung up on the issue of background checks for 18, 19 and 20-year-olds who want to buy guns. even if there is a deal, and that's still a big if, it is going to be pretty where are we right now? punch bowl news puts it like this, in the long struggle over guns and gun control, there is finally a window open for compromise, albeit a small window, with room for only a narrow accord. why? because for the first time in a decade the political incentive structure has shifted, democrats are working...

Murphy working on, this apparently senator cornyn, i hope he's acting in good faith, also trying to find a way forward. but the stat that you just gave on the 88% of americans agreeing that we need to do something, and then our democracy not being responsive to that means that there is something broken in the system. there's something broken in the incentive structure. if we can't find ten republicans to join us in trying to do that. because when you see numbers like that, you and i both know that, it is unheard of it, is not normal for americans to agree that much and that overwhelmingly on a...

Profits from it. if you click on a white nationalist like richard spencer and then you are served other white nationalists to follow, if an algorithm of a platform is not transparent but then researchers, of whistleblowers, tell us so much that we need to know, when we find out that all sorts of systems have been put into place. we see contents that makes us angry. it mixes attack one another more than we see content from our friends and family. these are business choices that the company is making. incentive structure that has to be dealt with. the lack of transparency from a silicon valley, ...

>> we are in an epidemic of hate, and it's fuelled by a whole set of things that we as a country can actually deal with. it is fuelled by an incentive structure and profit structure inside of social media platforms which remain immune to consequences for all the ways in which they amplify and profit off this. it's fuel bid some of what we see on cable news and the ways in which that is incentivize in terms of some of the replacement theory and the other language we see coming out of fox news and tucker carlson and the ways in which major carrier providers of cable companies pay fox news more m...