is that fake news? is that people reacting to fake news?ss is too often, too many times, lost it's interest in fully informing people, and instead it's replaced by them stirring the pot more than providing the facts, and that's a problem. - [narrator] as the veracity of the news media is increasingly called into question, those in power can more easily dismiss press reports with which they disagree. - not you. - can you give us a chance? - your organization's terrible. - you are attacking our news organization. - your organization. - can you give us a chance to ask a question, sir? - go ahead. - obviously, i don't like to see my colleagues attacked for what often is aggressive, accurate reporting. what i really don't like to see is this russian propaganda theme. that we're surrounded by fake news. it's an attempt to dilute the influence of the american press and promote russian propaganda instruments like rt, like sputnik. - the press is biased in a liberal direction. they're biased in favor of conflict. but i don't use the words "fake medi

news and fake news has a problem it has a little bit of instability in what counts as fake news. it has been variously used to apply to true disinformation, false news presented as truth, biased news, news with which one disagrees or news that is not really newsworthy. what ronnell has referred to as fake newsworthiness. so what if anything, going back to the question of what's newsworthy, should the law do about fake news, if it should do anything? >> well, since you're starting with me, uni think one of the things i've been particularly interested in, the communications decency act section 230 and this is a law that suggests that websites are not liable for information published on them by others. so by outsiders. and this is one of the reasons why we have this proliferation of websites that exist with no other purpose but to perhaps spread false information or to inflict emotional harm. this is a federal statute that protects those websites from liability for information published by others. for the longest time we have embraced this. certainly i think we've embraced it if we,

. >>> plus, fighting fake news. democrats in an all-out war to combat fake nez ahead of the pivotal elections just months away. we take you exclusively on to the front lines of the battle against the bots. >>> let's start with, don't rule anything out. those words today from defense secretary jim mattis. as we see horrifying results of this weekend's apparent chemical weapons attack in syria. videos showing survivors treated amid reports that dozens were killed. including children who suffocated to death in the rebel stronghold of duma. the syrian government denied involvement. so did the russian government, which backs syria's assad regime. president trump condemning the attack at a cabinet meeting just a short time ago. >> it was an atrocious take. it was horrible. we are studying that situation extremely closely. meeting with our military and everybody else, and we'll be making some major decisions over the next 24 to 48 hours. if it's russia, if it's syria, if it's iran, if it's all of them together, we'll figur

cnn has been proven to peddle fake news. and in an article dated march 4 2018, it says that newsguard is a start-up company evaluating and rating the reliability of thousands of news sources. and it wants to sell this data to tech giants like facebook and twitter. host: you're going a little in and out. where did you get your story that you're reading from, just so we know? caller: from cnn. are you a for profit data-mining corporation? host: mr. brill? guest: we're not mining anything. the only data we're mining is published journalism online the most-unprivate journalism availability. we're not mining any data not keeping any consumers' data. you also, i think misquoted me. i didn't say anything about whether cnn was fake news or not. i just -- what i did say, and i stand by it, and i think you would probably agree is i said i think, quote, whatever you think of cnn, it is not the propaganda arm of vladimir putin. i don't think you'd disagree with that. i don't think anybody disagrees with that. as far as data mining, agai

the you think there has been any repercussions from the freight -- fake move -- fake news movement internationally? absolutely. we are protected by the first amendment. that is not the case around the world. parrotingee dictators the president and saying fake news, that is my stomach turns. >> the philippines. putin. so many autocrats around the world have grabbed onto this fake news term and used it as an excuse for cracking down on oppositional press or critical press. in india, yesterday, the was going toorce criminalize fake news because there was no definition. there was the peace and "the new and times," about malaysia montclair try to put into place about fake news. it is really insidious. the effect of this globally. about written columns this, the terrible example that the attacks on the press in this country create for the rest of the world. where autocrats are dining off of this. attacks on theof press and jailing of the press. turkey is the worst offender of all. in this country, physical attacks on the press -- >> the words enemy of the people are history in authoritarian regimes for

he said you know what fake news is, you guys. fake news is anything that you write that i don't like. and we would say, even if it's factually true, he's still lumping that in the category of fake news. now, the reason he's able to do that, i say this is absolutely, i endorse what you said, which is this did not begin with donald trump. i mean, this was already tilled ground that donald trump was able to capitalize on, and i personally trace it back to the 1980s and the end of the fairness doctrine with the deregulation of the fcc under ronald reagan, which led to the rise in talk radio and fox news and cable, where you suddenly had an entire media ecosystem saying that media out there, the mainstream media, they're not telling you the truth. we're the only ones who are going to tell you the truth. so, the more that you have people believing that, the more that there is ground where people say, well, you know, i don't trust the media, i'm only going to trust this one source. we know from the pew study -- pew does fantastic work o

such fake news. the news director on a number of occasions, she here forl, i've been 20 years, but we've been bought by sinclair broadcasting and there's nothing we can do about it. and i am so angry at the general media for taking so long, like the new york times. i'm glad they're following up a bit late, like five years late or more? williams?trong guest: well, victoria is also our news director and billy general manager, until he recently decided to move on to other things. john, all news, whether it's abc, the big networks, it's scripted. it has to do with the litigious society we find ourselves in, because broadcast networks can get sued. anchors,t's cnn, the they're reading from a prompter. unfortunately, that's the way it happens. them byon-fed to producers, by staff. they're never unscripted. okay? way the business works. host: when it comes to your anchors and the scripts that read on air, how far up do those scripts go to get reviewed? guest: to the television level. it doesn't come up to t

news, it's phoney stuff, it didn't happen, fake news, fake news.r] >> fake news. heather: do you think it's fake news how you will soon be able to call a hotline to actually report fake news? heather: turning to extreme weather, tornadoing in the south and two twisters touching down in alabama including rv park, first responders rescued people in mobile homes. swirling water spout at fort walton beach, tornado touching down in louisiana. a woman's healthy in-flight snack turns into a tough reality to stomach, $500 for bringing an apple through customs, she got the fruit on delta flight and threw it in her bag for later which ended up being searched h. >> he had asked me if my trip to france was expensive and i said, well, yeah, you know, well, it's about to get a whole much more expensive aafia charge you 500. heather: unexpected fruits cannot come and delta should have warned her. southwest aerolines canceling flight for engine inspections following last week's deadly explosion. tracee carrasco here with the latest, good morning, tracee. tracee: s

we tried to do the best weekend but you mentioned fake news earlier. how do you define fake news? george. rachel is in maryland. for democrats. caller: yes, john. ,he gentleman that just called voiced the same opinion i was going to make. the fact that the gentleman that called and said president obama gave iran that money. he could be corrected because somebody else called and said the same thing a couple weeks ago. if it isnot true -- not true, it should be corrected. i agree 100% with the other caller that just called in. host: roy in wilmington, north carolina. independent. caller: i just wanted to talk about, basically, the power that corporations have right now over our government. i am seeing these tech companies , they are essentially their own nationstate. there is a different level of accountability in the u.k., for example with facebook, what they can do with our data. it is different in the u.k. as it is in america. curious, as long as we are going to consider corporations essentially people, at what point do we start punishing corporations like people? if a person is

back to us fake news. it's not fake news to write an article, right or wrong, fair or unfair , critical of the president, but that is the way that the term has been used. it's been used effectively in the stance that many people have become persuaded that whatever fake news means the media does it and does it again and again. to me, it's just difficult to escape the conclusion that destroying the credibility of the core of the press, not every publication, at least those publications including some very powerful ones that have been very critical of the president that destroying their credibility is very much at the center of what he wants to do as president it is an agenda item, not a passing comments here or there. it is not a mere irritation, a new monmouth university poll with more than three of four americans have come to believe that fake news is commonplace, so taking that into account and to be fair taking into account a number of the statements that the president made before he was president, again

us from some media outlets publish the same fake stories without checking facts for they called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are extremely proud of the quality balanced journalism that c.b.s. four news produces but the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house this is extremely dangerous to our democracy this is extremely dangerous to our democracy this is extremely dangerous to our democracy this is extremely sick stream this is extremely dangerous streaming dangerous to our democracy turn democracy this is extremely dangerous to our democracy when i'm president and they're not. also coming up remembering her fight against apartheid and her struggles with matters of the heart south africa's winnie mandela has done. that is sometimes too much to. lose that he. would like to keep to words. but we begin the day with donald trump the mainstream media and that adage all politics is local the u.s. president continues to attack the media for pushing what he calls fake news and one sided reporting well tonight a video that has gone viral is sounding a lot arms

reporter: the next generation of fake news.n the left, trump's face, but his facial eression d words are actually being generated by an actor. leading animation software developers like hao li are busy perfecting the technology behind such high-resolution facial mapping. this customized photo booth utilizes 14,00l.e.d. ligs to crte these hyper-realistic images. hao: here you can see cookie's screwed-up face that we just photographed. and you can see here, it's all rendered in 3-d. and what's really effective about this device is that it even shows the pores. we can zoom in here and see all the lines on his face. reporter: hao li's team of developers aren't interested in creating fake news. they're focused on creating new communication tools. their aim is to make it possible for anyone to create three-dimensional avatars for use in various applications. for instance, in the film industry. hao: i could generate a new video where my features are mapped onto someone else's. and of course i could also morph my face onto theirs, so i

from fake news to forced news across the u.s. local t.v. news anchors say they were ordered to read from a script meant for trump t.v. tonight a declaration of dependence for america's mainstream media is the watchdog of the government's becoming a parrot of the president i'm burnt off in berlin this is the day. before. this year by false news here you can call to comment on the media the state media is trying to silence us from some media outlets publish me saying fake stories without checking facts for i called the fake news the enemy of the people and they are extremely proud of the quality balanced journalism that c.b.s. news produces but the fake media tried to stop us from going to the white house this is extremely dangerous to our democracy this is extremely dangerous to our democracy this is extremely dangerous to our democracy this is extremely sick stream lead this is extremely dangerous streaming dangerous to our democracy our democracy this is extremely dangerous to our democracy when i'm president and they're not. also coming u

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i was fake news by nbc which gets a lot of fake news. i want you to all know we are fighting the fake news. lou: we take it up with ed roll lou: a majority of americans agree with president trump about fake news. almost 80% believe major traditional television and newspaper outlets report fake news. 77%. joining me now, one of the brightest business political analysts in the business, ed rollins. 77%. 82% of independents think it's fake news. ed: the president put the spotlight on fake news. people realize the information they get is not accurate or misleading. i think they should right with cynicism. it's really him. lou: it's extraordinary how he hit these issues and drives what is already in the public consciousness to the forefront where people have to deal with it. ed: when he says it, it makes it true and they are willing to say, if the president says that, he knows more than we do. and he feels outraged by it. lou: you can actually sense the frustration this president feels, talking about mexico, the border. the republican led hou

host: do you think people are too casual about throwing out the term fake news? guest: there's a war between the president and the media. whether people want to admit it president trump has a lot of credibility. and a lot of cachet. and people want to believe their theident and give them benefit of the doubt and i think president trump has said it enough that it's beginning to have the impact. and when you have networks like and msnbc and others having to retract statements, having to apologize, they get stories wrong. it could be 25% of the time but if that's the 25% of the time that people remember. not the 75% of the time you get the story right. so unfortunately people will remember those stories and with the president and this war and hopefully at some point along the way the mainstream media will at least make an all-out effort to be fair to the president and not to harp on every little petty issue. voters really don't care about -- people did not like donald trump to be there moral compass. they knew exactly what president trump was when he decided to run

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that was fake news. it is not fake news to write an article, right or wrong, fair or unfair, critical of the president. but that is the way that the term has been used, and used effectively in the sense that many people have become persuaded that whatever fake news means, the media does it and does it again and again. difficult to escape the conclusion that destroying the credibility of the core of the press, not every is very much at the center of what he wants to do as president. , not an agenda item passing comment here or there. .t is not a mere irritation a new poll concluded that more than three out of four americans have come to believe that fake news is commonplace. taking that into account, and to be fair taking into account and number of statements the president made before he was as toent, very often matters where he has not followed up by taking the action he said he would take, it is still relevant to recall that when running for office the president said he was going to to make itlibel laws

if you suspect a news story is fake you can report it. it just takes a few taps zuckerberg initially dismissed the notion that fake news skewed the election but he's now asking facebook users to flag suspect stories mark zuckerberg has said that you know he's not in the news publication business or they're not a media company but i think that's a mistake a kind of a denial so they're definitely a media company i think that they should try and treat themselves more as one in the future. if facebook is playing an increasingly important role in how we are. to stay in the world it's social mood study showed we are also influenced by our emotions. when it to researchers explain how they manipulated the news feeds of some seven hundred thousand users they were criticised for playing with people's psyche without telling them. and yet it's algorithms do that every day. they tell us what we want to hear to keep us on line and help advertisers send us more ads. i don't think we can treat facebook as benign i think it has enormous implications for.

i was fake news by nbc which gets a lot of fake news.to all know we are fighting the fake news. lou: we take it up with ed rollins here next. stay with us. we will be right back. .. as long as hecklers love to heckle, you can count on geico saving folks money. boring! fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. but prevagen helps your brain with an ingredient originally discovered... in jellyfish. in clinical trials, prevagen has been shown to improve short-term memory. prevagen. the name to remember. where we're changing withs? contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander with a double palm grab. who has the upper hand now? start winning today. book now at lq.com. the commute is worth it.me, the more you know you and that john deere tractor... you can keep dreaming up projects all the way home. it's a longer drive. but just like a john deere, it's worth it. lou: a majority of americans agree with president trump about fake news. almost 80% believe major traditional televi

news but there was no definition of what is fake news. so what about malaysia and what they try to put into place and who gets to decide? it is really insidious and i have written columns about this about the terrible example of the attacks on the press that this country creates for the rest of the world and the autocrats are dying -- dining off of this with the all-time high with attacking and jailing the press and turkey is the worst of all. >> but as people they have a history of authoritarian regimes. if you say you are the enemy of the people you are not with the people. you are something else. >> hello. i study communications so there was a mention about reporters holding people accountable and that was a valuable point about the story going unreported because in the 70s was a lot of women of color and that reported either there was much documented for those articles you had to find out about those situations so if there is a whole segment of people being left out people who are hurting are not being held accountable by the reporter

the western world from the threats of iran and north korea to growing nationalism and the plague of fake news mr mccraw methodically explained why there is no alternative to us leadership in the world he redefined trumps america first by reminding the us why it cannot retreat from its global responsibilities and a republican majority congress rewarded him with several standing ovations welcoming all planets let this faith eat there is no planet b. and i am sure one day the united states would come back and joined various agreements bostons the united states and in europe we are living in a time off or and here you can play with your ears and angus for a time but they do not construct anything. anger only freezes and we can see us france supports fully the united states in its the faults to bring down through sanctions and negotiations towards the need. of the korean peninsula. for iran. our objective is clear iran shall never up of this any nuclear weapons. not now not in five years not in ten years net for thanks. are you want to take the story now to our clear riches and she joins us f

that's fake news.ut this, don't let the fake news tell you that there's big infighting in the trump admin, we are getting along great and getting major things done. it's not fake news, mr. president. it's real news that you disagree with. that's the important difference. because when you call real news fake, you undermine people's trust in the free press to keep us informed. thanks for listening. let me know if you have any questions. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: thank you, noah, you have my vote. all right, we're going to take a break. when we come back, we have something special when we come back. gwen stefani -- [ cheers and applause ] she will go head to head against one of her biggest fans to find out who knows more about gwen stefa stefani. so stick around, we'll be right back. ♪ oh my life ♪ ♪ is changing every day ♪ ♪ in every possible way ♪ ♪ ♪ i want more ♪ ♪ impossible to ignore ♪ ♪ impossible to ignore ♪ ♪ happiness is powerful flea and tick protection from nexgard. a delicious chew th

that's completely fake, what are you talking about? completely fake.ut people are susceptible to it and social media has created these echo chambers and quite frankly, bad behavior by adults. >> kennedy: they have half a story or just a little bit of information which can be just as dangerous. >> lisa: i also think president trump has exposed something we've all seen happening with the mainstream media and the sense that they lean left and they already had these pre-existing biases and president trump has exposed that by exploiting it saying fake news going after them. as cbs said, the media has done a good enough job on his own ruining its reputation. >> trish: go through the list, you look at brian ross, cnn, literally made up a meeting between john kelly which is the dhs secretary and band and that he said was pure fantasy. they've done a good enough job running the reputation on their own they don't want to be perceived as fake news, think of the stories right. >> kennedy: i understand that but the problem is people have different interpretations o

i was fake news by nbc which gets a lot of fake news.t you to all know we are fighting the fake news. lou: we take it up with ed lou: we take it up with ed roll sfx: muffled whistle text alert. i'm your phone, stuck down here between your seat and your console, playing a little hide-n-seek. cold... warmer... warmer... ah boiling. jackpot. and if you've got cut-rate car insurance, you could be picking up these charges yourself. so get allstate, where agents help keep you protected from mayhem... ...like me. mayhem is everywhere. are you in good hands? with powerful 24-hour relief non-drowsy claritin from symptoms triggered by over 200 different allergens. like those from buddy. because stuffed animals are clearly no substitute for real ones. feel the clarity and live claritin clear. for one week only, save up to $46 on select claritin products. check this sunday's newspaper. [fbi agent] you're a brave man, your testimony will save lives. mr. stevens? this is your new name. this is your new house. and a perfectly inconspicuous suv. you mus

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we got exclusive access to the dnc's efforts to fight fake news.look. >> reporter: we attend one of the top tech schools in the country, but he's taking a semester off to try to fix a problem that keeps him and his childhood friend up at night, fake news. >> we've had a couple late nights. >> couple. >> there's been nights till 6:00, 7:00 in the morning and get up maybe 8:00 or 9:00 the next day. >> reporter: why are you doing this? >> there's this new fight for truth and that's where we want to put our time towards. >> this man has joined the fight too. after a successful fight at uber and twitter he now works for the democratic national committee. they developed an innovatety program to fight bots. >> fake news has been prop indicated by commute computer programs around the world or by organization's round the world to confuse and distract voters from what the real story is. >> let's use this robot to the represent bots. the berkeley guys nund most most angry and partisan tweets were coming fast and furious. a single account operating around the

everybody has a different definition of fake news of people think fake news is biased to. some people think fake news as literal take things that people have made up but that's a dangerous territory that were entering into because yes, there are many different outlets that approach the news from different perspectives but in moments of really important national stores, in moments of crisis, i do think that we have increasingly over the years people have lost trust. i personally feel a lot of that stems not to some people think you one-sided versus the other but the the you look into it the change at the local level. we don't have a local newspapers were used to have before, and i do think that people feel a lot more trust when they understand like he was saying that transparency, who is behind the story. and right now all but of the national media is located in washington, new york or maybe l.a., and the local outlets have seen a huge decline. the same way people say they hate congress by the like their member of congress. people hate the media but they like their meaty. i

election all the talk about fake news about post truth world and those kinds of things and i remember you know i was in davos and somebody convinced me they said look you've got to give the president one hundred days it's an american tradition one hundred days to see what he does and i thought all right you know let's just see we've just said the election he was just being sworn into office and it was the very next day when kellyanne conway said something about alternative facts about this dispute about how many people regular inauguration and i was just like you know what hundred days is up like this is not acceptable behavior like facts do matter and in particular something like that is just a very simple statement that to lie about it when there's photographic evidence and so on is just outraged. and so anyway for me. it wasn't just that but that was kind of the last straw that was the thing that made me say you know what i'm going to do this now it's not a brand new concept is it fake news it's been around a long time or perhaps in the past in the realms of sort of conspiracy theo

the real fake news.esident as a way to attack critical coverage. >> a specific example of that is really profound and worth remarking upon is in this debate between the fox news host now on vacation and the parkland student david hogg over the weekend, hamilton 68 found a dramatic increase in russian bots using the hashtag surrounding that debate. trying to elevate the debate on eng ram's side over when willwo. >> the russian bots seize on these things. when ever they sensed division in the country, they seize on it and gin it up. explain how the laura ingram advertiser boycott is different than what's happened with fox in the past glen beck when he has gotten in trouble and advertisers penalized him or bill o'reilly? >> i think the one big difference is fox is defending ingram. saying we're not going to be intimidated by these efforts to tear us down, to intimidate the network. here is the statement saying we're not going to be censored by agenda-driven intimidation efforts. >> it's very important that

sinclair is fair, superior to cnn and even more fake nbc,

sinclair is far superior to cnn and even more fake nbc.tuchman goes into detail. >> the sharing of biased and false news has become all too common on social media. >> reporter: an identical script read by local news anchors across the country at stations all controlled by one company. the sinclair broadcast group. >> more alarming, some media outlets publish the same fake stories. >> reporter: to media watchers, the setone sounded eerily familiar. >> it is extremely dangerous to our democracy. >> this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. >> this is extremely dangerous to our democracy. >> the message mandated by sinclair to air frequently on its local news broadcast is done to, quote, reach maximum frequency. it's the latest move by a media giant that critics say is pushing pro-trump propaganda. >> former fbi director james comey testified before the u.s. senate on thursday. >> reporter: last year, former trump white house staffer and campaign senior adviser boris epstein was hired as sinclair's chief political analyst. >> as i've said

promo blasting fake news creating very real headlines. hallie jackson, nbc news, washington. >>> there's a big question swirling tonight. will vladimir putin be welcomed inside the white house after russia's meddling in the 2016 elections? that question sending shock waves through washington after it was revealed the trump administration is considering a summit with putin in washington. we get details from nbc's peter alexander. >> reporter: the president today welcoming thousands of families to the annual easter egg roll here at the white house. >> we call it tip hi-top shape and it's a great, great place. >> reporter: and the white house could be the venue for a blockbuster summit between president trump and vladimir putin. the kremlin today revealing mr. trump suggested it during his congratulatory call with putin last month. >> we will probably get together in the not too distant future so that we can discuss arms. >> reporter: press secretary sarah sanders confirming the president's discuss to sit down at a number of potential venues