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Conspiracy theories and hoaxes, and some end up doing awful things. i think our information environment is polluted in many ways. so how does a free society grapple with that knowing how many benefits come from the internet, how valuable free expression is free speech rights are. how do we grapple with this? let's talk about it with oliver darcy and gq correspondent julia. the company is known as being like a free speech oasis. you can post whatever you want. in reality that means a lot of hate groups, a lot of bigots use the site to spread hate and lies. how are they reacting this weekend? >>...

This deep anti-semitism that you swirl hill, pittsburgh. see on the social media footprint. we know the fbi is leading the >> several of the messages that he was posting was against a investigation. they are treating this and investigating this as a hate jewish refugee resettlement crime. we also know that the suspect agency. that was his point that one of was wounded after he was shot by the points he was making is that this agency is bringing people police. the authorities have not said in, jews in, and he said, whether or not he is saying anything to them yet. machining many other things, t...

Saying something -- >> we'll come back to that point in a second. i hear a disembodied voice. it belongs to bakari sellers. go. >> first of all, trump's not transparent with all due respect. donald trump's a liar and i think we need to be extremely clear about this. the dangerous part about this -- and you're correct in the second part -- is to tie this and go back full circle with the polling, he tries to just alter reality, and he still gets 30% to 35% to 40% of the american public who stand by him. that is what's mind-boggling. that is what's dangerous. but we have to be very clear in our l...

That is what's dangerous. but we have to be very clear in our language. i don't think -- >> let me explain. what i was saying is when he lies, it's very transparent what he is trying to do, what he fears, how he's trying to change the information environment. that's what i mean. >> now that you two have made peace. >> you're right. he's an unabashed liar. there we go. i got it. >> you have no argument from me on that. >> i do want to bring michael caputo in and tie it back to the polls here because one of the things in the abc news poll, which i know you don't like, is that support for the mue...

Trust that because they are leaders and we are trusting them to do that. bigger picture here is that donald trump lies repeatedly as he does because he wants to disorient the american people so that they can't ascertain what the truth is. they can't tell. and if he can do that and he has done that for his base, then it is impossible to hold them accountable. if you don't know what he is doing, what he isn't, what the facts are, what facts are not, you can't hold him accountable. and so what do we have to do, we have to try extra hard and not give up and lot of people tell me look, i can't tell...