5/12/26: Bibi Blames Social Media For Anti-Israel Criticism, Derek Thompson On Billionaire AI Takeover
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar
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🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Saagar and Emily discuss Bibi blames social media for anti-Israel sentiment in the US, Derek Thompson joins on billionaire AI takeover.
Derek Thompson: https://www.derekthompson.org/
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| 0:38.0 | Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his splashy 60 Minutes interview on Sunday night, |
| 0:43.2 | which Crystal and I covered yesterday, also made some comments in regard to what he sees as |
| 0:48.4 | rising anti-Semitism. And he has a theory of why this is apparently happening. |
| 0:54.4 | It is related to, you guessed it, social media. |
| 0:57.9 | Let's take a listen to this first stop. |
| 0:59.4 | We have seen the deterioration of support for Israel in the United States almost, I would say |
| 1:07.8 | it correlates almost 100% with the geometric rise of social media. |
| 1:14.7 | And that by itself is not what caused it. |
| 1:16.8 | And I don't believe in censoring them or anything. |
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