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Zuckerberg pushed back saying many of her claims didn't make sense. but haugen gave new momentum to governments that want to rein in social media. anti-social media was a through line for the entire year. bringing us to the number one media story of 2021. the vaccine disinformation divide. reliable info about covid-19 vaccines helped people get vaxxed and protected. but anti-vax lies and distortions went viral from facebook to fox in ways that worsened the pandemic's terrible toll. the right wing media machine took conspiracy theories from the fringes and moved them to the mainstream. >> radic...

Slashers, arsonists, a columbia student murdered, anti-asian hate crimes. this guy is going to supercharge with going to be happening when his policies are implemented and he is going to be the face of the crime wave. he seems confused as to why there is this blowback. you can't hide as a public official in new york city. you can be a train conductor who pads his overtime to juice his pension and you will get your face plastered all over. reporters will show up to your doorstep and blow your career up. this guy is not just a low-level guy. you have "the new york post," daily news, the local ch...

Media. there's been a platforming of more than flirting with anti-semitism on broadcast networks with some of the right's biggest stars. >> look, so, first of all, jonathan's absolutely right that anti-semitism was with us before donald trump. racism, islamaphobia, all forms of hate predated it and we were seeing a rise in it, highest levels, though, recently, since 2008. and we have to do education to combat it. but look, you know, your point, i think, is really important, nicole, which is there has been a concerted media machine that has said and paired a people who have viewpoints on civil ...

We have significantly lower vaccination rates, significantly more infections and deaths and our peer countries. and we have a right-wing media machine that has been driving before for spent a lot of that. steven marsh is a canadian journalist, author of the next civil war. dispatches from the american future, and he joins me now. are you surprised, stephen, to see fox news take up this canadian right wing cause? >> well, not really, because i think one of the things that's very clear to us here is that this is a kind of a spillover to american, political toxicity. and that one we are in fact s...

>> spanning across canada from vancouver to ottawa. >> thousands of truckers assemble to vancouver this weekend to protest, and formed the freedom convoy. >> massive, freedom convoy. >> that massive trucker demonstration. >> canada's freedom convoy. >> freedom convoy. >> freedom convoy. >> freedom convoy. >> could there be an american version of this trucker convoy? >> one of this comes here, seriously, think about what the truckers strike would mean? >> it's not just about canada now. >> bringing the freedom convoy to the u.s. today. >> and i think recently about the idea of conceptual-ism, p...