Fault Lines

Welcome back to Fault Lines with Nixon and Schranahan.

I am producer Eric Ladney filling in today for Lee Strannahan,

and we are joined now by James Corbett, founder of the Corbett Report. James, how are you doing today?

I am doing excellent. Thank you for having me on.

James, it's 920, so it's early. You haven't been banned from YouTube yet today, have you?

Oh, it's late over here. It's 10.20 p.m. in Japan, so I made it another day, I guess.

Oh, good. Hey, he's ahead of us there, huh?

James, you had a couple great videos out recently, one that I watched here the other day

entitled Pricking the Filter Bubble. So if you just want to kind of give our audience a brief

overview of what that video was about. Right. So people have probably heard about this concept

of the filter bubble by now, but if not, it's basically this idea that our, our perception of the

world is increasingly being shaped by these big, giant tech companies and specifically the

algorithms that they're using to tailor recommended videos or news feeds or you should click this next.

And in ways that we can barely even comprehend, and I was in that episode that you're talking about,

I was talking about some of the ways that my life has been changed, some in, you know,

who cares, you know, what music I'm going to listen to or that kind of thing. But some very profoundly important things, including really the starting of the corporate report

website was because back in 2006 I was getting these recommended videos, these conspiracy videos

on YouTube, and I was clicking on them kind of with my eyes rolling, oh, you know, what's

this about?

And some of the videos were actually really compelling,

and it started me down this whole path that ultimately led to the corporate report. So our lives

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