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Closely, the further you get how people follow news the more trump has a gap. i am not saying normally who's right or who's wrong about that. that's the way the information environment is working right now. it does seem to me that we're also in a place where like, the media itself is so delicate and vulnerable. >> from someone from the washington post. >> yes, exactly. the fundamental issue is people believe that there's a way to get accurate information to the public. we're increasingly finding that a we're dealing with people who don't believe that and that people don't want to actually fina...

Msnbc or cnn. those are many many things that people are getting wrong of what's going on around the world depending on where they get their news. i've been thinking a lot about this topic. what's sort of your basic view of the way the information environment is structuring the news that americans have. >> i think we are getting into whether watching fox news or conservative media. >> the causal mechanism here, all things being equal i watch fox news and i think this. i just think it because i watch fox news. >> although it is evidence, showing that people who were actually paid not to watch f...

It goes to show that the information environment is so broken and people are living in a space online that is absent objective reality. why wouldn't all manner of people come in and try to exploit that? i think the starker message is why can't israel feel they can make these arguments directly to members of congress about what they are doing in gaza? if you think you're winning the argument, if you're confident in what you are doing, you don't need to create a bunch of thoughts to try to pressure. >> once you are using bots it says a lot about the merits of your arguments. ben rhodes, thank yo...

United states. issues around anything in which americans are arguing with each other online. they come in and pour gasoline on the fire or they try to put their thumb on the scale. they create a volume that makes people think that these divisions are sharper than they appear or they try to bias in the direction of one side of the argument. it shows our information environment is so broken and people are living in a space online that is absent objective reality. why wouldn't all manner of people and interest including foreign ones come in and try to exploit that? the starker message here is why...

>> i think what we see from a lot of governments, and this one i think it's not just israel and russia, i think a lot of foreign governments, forinterests do this is they look for areas where there are divisions already in the united states, right? issues around the black lives matters movement, issues around the war in gaza, issues around anything in which americans are arguing with each other online, and they kind of come in and they either pour gasoline on that fire as the russians often do or they try to put their thumb on the scale. they create a volume that kind of makes people think tha...