Page 8 - Information Bubble News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Level of denial and delusion that has defined the modern republican party. this didn't happen overnight, as you alluded to earlier. a lot of this had to do with the conservative media and this information bubble where bad news didn't intrude. in one of my conversations with trump, he took pride in this. he took pride in the fact that he had helped hurt fox news by attacking them when they called the race for biden and said he would win arizona. turns out a lot of people don't like to hear negativity toward me and this idea that false information as long as it was positive is fundamental to ele...

Triangulate. the real problem is what is happening within russia, as we've been discussing throughout this hour. what has happened is that russians no longer have, or actually, they have very limited access to real information going on outside their country. now, that has been choked off even to a greater extent. so a colleague of mine described this as a digital iron curtain, to use another old cold war term. and and that is what happened. basically, putin is hell-bent on the information bubble. and essentially is keeping his people in the dark. over a long period of time, we've seen this bef...

While. >> yeah. well, that speaks to, again, how the world has evolved. we talk about the dark and light parts of a connected and internet enabled world, but as you say, that may puncture some of the propaganda. on the other hand there's extensive reporting, front page of the times today about people in russia not believing their own family members in ukraine because unlike some of the folks that you cited they are just relying on state media. they don't believe and understand the reality. that dwoez to the information bubble that putin may be also operating in, reading are from a "washington ...

And please stay safe. we wish you the best. we want to turn now to russia. the united states, canada, and eu nations announcing select russian banks will in fact officially be expelled from s.w.i.f.t. saying in a joint statement that the move is designed to ensure that putin's war on ukraine is, quote, a strategic failure. nbc's raphe sanchez is in moscow for us. raphe, it is good to talk to you once again. listen, putin has made sure that the russian public is in an information bubble regarding ukraine, shutting down social media left and right, making sure they only see what the russian go...

This. so how much do they know? how much support do they give vladimir putin? >> it's unfortunate. i don't have friends lift in russia. people that march with me on the russian streets peaceful protesting putin, they're in jail or killed. so we can get some information out of the situation on the ground but its dire. putin closed almost every hole that could be used to bring true picture of what is happening in ukraine. now by new laws by parliament in russia, if you protest the war, you go to jail. if you're trying to tell the truth, you can earn 50 years behind bars. so russia is closed in t...