gillette. . >>> a form of psychosis, that's what info wars founder alex jones is saying caused him toieve events like the sandy hook massacre were staged. during a recent sworn deposition as part of a defamation lawsuit against him, jones said that the trauma of the media and corporations lying made him believe that everything was a conspiracy. >> and i, myself, i almost feel like a form of psychosis in the past where i thought everything was staged. now i'm learning some things aren't staged so i think as a pundit and someone giving opinion that you know my opinions have been wrong, but they were never wrong consciously or to hurt people. >> you remember in the past, jones' divorce lawyer tried to sell the fact that his on air persona was just and act. according to jones, he was really trying to get at the truth. >> well, what i'm getting at is, this stuff we are looking at today, kids going if circles, schools closed, e-mails, emts not in the building, port joe, potties, these are journal zblichl this is punditry, i where a satire hat, reading news, just being a news reader, i do th

has been kicked off youtube and yet you can still find a lot of alex jones videos youtube and yet you lot of conspiracy theorists on youtube, because they are not really taking this seriously. they are paying a lot of lip service to the need to get this stuff off of these platforms, but they are not doing anything about it because they see it as free speech. when in fact with this ideology is about is destroying free speech. they would argue the are trying to do stuff about this. what do you say they should be doing more? well, they should be much more aggressive in getting rid of conspiracy is him and racism and white nationalist ideology on these platforms. it is simply a lot of these characters that are still on these characters that are still on these platforms. they don't take it seriously. 0ne these platforms. they don't take it seriously. one of the things that happens on the social media platforms is that they have actually hired moderators to try to weed to some of this stuff out. what they have been finding is that the moderators are themselves falling down the rabbit holes

sometimes don't go far enough to censor it like when platforms banned info wars conspiracy theorist alex jones you tube facebook and apple all announcing their own moving his content from their platforms they only actually took action after weeks of media pressure after jones' popularity shot through the roof you tube users viewed his talk on joe rogan's podcast about ten million times it was a perfect platform for all the android elves and drug crazed aliens they've got like astronaut level. people taking super hardcore levels of drugs and going into meetings with these things and making interval act deals the nazis get the deep literature they believed they were being possessed by entities they were psychically connected to each other and would work like robots here is what the elite believes. the elves are biological androids the great this in theories on television clearly doesn't work but promoting conspiracy theories well that's a different story some people actually have some type of paranoid delusions or they have paranoid personality so they tend to see connections among things that o

legitimate political discussion there is no difference between that ass hat and all flat earth or alex jones or someone who thinks dunkin donuts has good coffee. you know sense well both the host and the other panelists hardly refuted a little there here and there because these are corporate owned talking heads on a corporate channel that doesn't want equality doesn't want justice and doesn't want an educated populace but i also realize i shouldn't just pick on m.s.n. b.c. and act like the other channels are fine so i went over to fox news over their web site. and this was i had to put a condom over my laptop first. but. i went over their website and this was literally at the top of the international news page. the rule breaking new news man with too much time on his hands these jesus in the clouds. so what i saw buddha and i hop just last week ok. past big a deal. really inspiring and yet we're supposed to believe this is hard proof right here that a particular religion that thirty three percent of the world has picked out must be real well i got bad news for you of seeing your your religio

you are alex jones without the blood spurting out your ears you want to rush limbaugh but less coherent. and without the bag full of tickets to a sex dungeon but. you are a clown of the highest order you have taken what appear to be progressive beliefs and funneled them through the realm of big foot and mystical swamp creatures of thirty second ads fairy tales from hucksters all right don't take it for me here's from an op ed this week in your beloved new york times over the past three years a good many members of the opposition to donald trump a mix of serious journalists cable television host pop culture personalities erstwhile government officials professional activists and politicians have been invested in what appears to be exactly the kind of conspiracy laced alternative reality that they believe themselves to be resisting with the apparent no collusion conclusion to the moller investigation there will be now be a retreat from this alternative reality to a more defensible terrain to all of you in the mainstream media get off the thin ice head on back to solid ground here here in f

spread misinformation mark zuckerberg has gone after both sides of the political spectrum from alex jones to the russia friendly left it's also been a year since it broke that the social media giant had sold off the data of eighty million users to a political advertising firm transferred facebook data to cambridge emulated personal data mined from nearly eighty seven million facebook users the largest security breach in the company's history this is this is a challenge for foreign companies so what is facebook actually done aside from zuckerberg saying sorry that is now it was a big mistake no it was a mistake and it was my mistake and i'm really sorry that this happened i'm sorry and i'm sorry for it spoiler alert and not a lot facebook promised a forensic audit of cambridge analytic but never delivered then they said they'd look into apps with suspicious activity and punish those who broke privacy rules the last we heard of that was august twenty eighth team and then there was the promise of a new option to clear personal information from the platform if the user wants facebook said tha

though we've known it's been a problem on these platforms for years we know with people like alex jones of info wars we know they've been using these platforms to spread. white propaganda and i think it's just a reflection of their approach to a much broader range of issues data pririvacy securiy things like that and of course - we store am in recent days how - groups such as isis islamist extremist groups and put up. terrible shocking videos as well that were shed widely. online do facebook put a lot of resources into fighting that today. yes and i think this just goes back to a question of prior ties a shin i mean what many people don't understand is just how much. offensive content gets uploaded to facebook on a daily basis we are dealing with you know hundreds of millions of popostsf all sorts of things not just racist and hate speech but people t that upload extremely violent content people that upload inappropriate materials and so. i think we're starting to face one of the implications of having to to constantly connected reality which is just a volume problem they recently added