mr. brownstein: good luck with that. good luck with that one. mr. manjoo: all right. thank you all. mr. brownstein: yeah. thank you. [applause] mr. manjoo: okay. we're going to -- we have one more part of this. so in the third part we're going to be talking about the other thing that was mentioned earlier, which is filter bubbles and echo chambers. in 2008, i wrote a book called "true enough: learning to live in a post-fact society," in which i predicted that because of the fragmentation of the internet and because of the way that we were sort of filtering our media diets that we would -- you know, we would get to a point where most of what we learned was from partisan sources and the truth will come to matter less. so i think i was right. and so -- but to talk about this more, we have an all star panel. lee rainie is the director of internet, science and technology research at the pew research center where he's worked since 1999. he also directs the center's new initiative on the intersection of science and society. he's the co-author of networked: the new social operating system and of

mr. brownstein: good luck with that. good luck with that one. mr. manjoo: all right. thank you all. mr. brownstein: yeah. thank you. [applause] mr. manjoo: ok. we're going to -- we have one more part of this. so in the third part we're going to be talking about the other thing that was mentioned earlier, which is filter bubbles and echo chambers. in 2008, i wrote a book called true enough: learning to live in a post-fact society, in which i predicted that because of the fragmentation of the internet and because of the way that we were sort of filtering our media diets that we would -- you know, we would get to a point where most of what we learned was from partisan sources and the truth will come to matter less. so i think i was right. and so -- but to talk about this more, we have an all star panel. lee rainie is the director of internet, science and technology research at the pew research center where he's worked since 1999. he also directs the center's new initiative on the intersection of science and society. he's the co-author of networked: the new social operating system and of fiv

mr. mayor. >> we'll have the mayor back to do just that. let's bring in cnn political analyst john avlon and karoun demirjian, and cnn's ron brownstein. we learned the president will speak about charlottesville later today. if he does choose to call out the racists, even like his own vice president has and his daughter has, white supremacists, kkk, neo nazis, is it too late? do you judge someone by what they say first? >> i'd say it's better late than never. >> you just heard the mayor say he had his moment and he whiffed. >> and he did. to not call out neo nazis and the kkk and instead to try to broaden the criticism with a moral equivalence that even neo nazi sites took as validation of their perspective. there's a larger problem here that i think the president needs to take ownership of the he wants to be leader of the nation rather than leader of a political faction, normally the way we've seen these works, we saw it the militia movement gets energy from democrats when they feel in opposition. what's stunning about what's hang now is these numbers are rising now with a republican president who some of them feel have empowered them