Human nature hasn't changed.

Human nature produced investigative journalists in a curious public

and people's willingness to associate and to want to know the truth.

I do think that the truth is out there in an economy that helps us pursue and produce the truth, or at least

produce some accounting of what the truth really is, whatever that is. I think we can build

that again, but I do think that requires some proactive engagement on our part to create the

ability for journalists to succeed, to create the ability for content creators to make money

off the work that they do for like the

really good quality stuff and to feature the stuff that is really morally upright and accurate

and serves the public.

Hello and welcome to Why Is This Happening with me your host Chris Hayes.

You know, there's a saying people used to use about back when the site X was called

Twitter.

I still tend to call it Twitter just stubbornly.

I'm like, you can't rename the site you bought.

It has a real name.

People would say Twitter is not real life.

And the thing that they were getting at is that sometimes little small and unrepresentative ideological bubbles would form on Twitter of people talking to each other, all of whom, in the broad bell curve

of American political opinion,

were like to one side or the other,

you know, very, very, very small,

unrepresentative sample of folks

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