Hi, I'm Melissa Malano. And this is Sorry Not Sorry. So, It's hard to believe that when President Obama was elected we barely had social media. Wild. And in less than two decades, giant

tech companies have completely changed how we interact with one another and in

doing so have fundamentally changed our perception of reality.

In his new book, The Death of Truth, best-selling author Stephen Brill, the co-founder and co-ceeo of Newsgarde

examines how this happened and how we have to recover from it.

Is it the truth or is it fake news?

It is a tiny law that's had a huge impact on the internet as we know it.

Section 230 of the

communications decency act. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle want to change the

way the law works affecting how content is moderated online. With AI technology

developing at breakneck speed experts are warning of an

explosion of deep fake online videos. Many people are falling victim and

their identities being used without consent to create digital content.

Ex owner, Elon Musk, is now blaming a liberal watchdog group for a huge loss in advertising on the site.

IBM Comcast and other companies have pulled their ads from X after a report by media

matters that showed advertisements being featured next to anti-Semitic posts.

Hi, I'm Stephen Brill, I have a new book out called The Death of Truth, which chronicles my work trying to clean up the cesspool that is the internet and that the social media platforms have created which has destabilized the world

and makes it so that no one believes in anything anymore.

Sorry, not sorry. Steve Brill, welcome to Sorry Not Sorry.

We have so much to talk about today.

I would love for you to just start with telling our listeners a little about

about who you are in the work you do.

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