WILL SOCIAL MEDIA LET THE FAR RIGHT GET AWAY WITH MURDER?
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Facebook is the largest source of news in the US. That news has a right-wing tilt. How has this happened and why is there so much fake news and why does Facebook allow people to get away with that? Founder of Popular dot Info, Judd Legum joins Thom to explain why social media needs to be viewed carefully.
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| 0:49.1 | You know, Facebook is now the largest purveyor of news in the United States. |
| 0:54.0 | More Americans get their news from Facebook than any other source, NBC's claims, notwithstanding. |
| 1:00.7 | And increasingly, I kind of laugh when I say increasingly because this has been going on for decades now, |
| 1:09.3 | but in particular over the last decade, that news has had a right-wing tilt to it, |
| 1:15.6 | the information that people are getting out of Facebook has had a right-wing tilt to it. |
| 1:19.2 | So how is that happening? |
| 1:21.0 | What's going on? Why and how are social media dominating or being dominated by right-wing, |
| 1:27.8 | in many cases, diss or misinformation sources? |
| 1:31.8 | Judd Lagum is the journalist and founder of popular.info, popular.info. |
| 1:37.2 | The website, of course, his Twitter handle is Judd Lagum, J-U-D-D-L-E-G-U-M, |
| 1:42.5 | and he's on the line with us right now. Judd, your report today on popular.info, |
| 1:47.4 | I subscribe to it, and I'll put it right up front. I think everybody should. |
| 1:50.6 | It's just a great newsletter over on Substick. And it just blew my mind. |
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