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I don't know anything.

Hello everyone, welcome to Factually.

I'm Adam Conover, and, uh, it's been a hell of a week in America.

As this episode airs on January 13th, it's been exactly a week since the insurrection, the

riots, the whatever you want to call it, at the United States Capitol.

And, you know, that puts me in a bit of an awkward spot as a commentator.

Uh-huh, we had an episode that just came out that Wednesday regardless of the facts on the ground.

And, you know, now my next episode, it's a week later.

There's already been thousands of people writing about what they think about this you've read article after article I assume

So you know I don't have that big of a statement to make, but let me say a couple words.

Okay, can I just say this?

It is painfully clear that the state of our information ecosystem, the

machine that brings facts, knowledge, and opinions to the people of this country

is in an absolutely terrible state.

I mean, if that wasn't obvious already, I think it is quite

obvious now. And you know, I think there's a tendency, an unfortunate tendency, to

treat the people who are purveying misinformation and conspiracy in this country as clowns, you know, like, oh,

Alex Jones, you know, that guy's got his shirt off, he, he yells about frogs or whatever, that guy's funny.

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