David Pakman

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This is Gavin Newsom · And, This Is How Social Media Will Decide the Next Election With David Pakman · 23 Jul 2026 podcast

It's absolutely true.

The other thing that I think is good is after you've come to identify some of these mechanisms, you can have a sort of self check thing where you say, OK, I'm seeing a lot of content that is telling me X. Is that really all there is to this?

So being aware of the fact that this is taking place can be a really good kind of inoculation against it.

And then you can go and say, hey, let's look at some other ideas about this.

There was a point to go back to the covid vaccine stuff where your algorithm would basically take you to anti Fauci stuff.

He's a criminal.

Then it takes you to some long form podcasters who would invite.

Sometimes they were medical doctors.

Sometimes they had PhDs, but they were sort of presented as if they are experts in medicine and you would go down this very dark path.

At some point, you could have said if you had been armed with the knowledge that you're being taken down this garden path.

I'm going to now go back and say, let's look at some randomized controlled trials.

Let's look at what the people at actual medical institutions are saying.

So the point is knowing that you are pushed, pushed, pushed further and further is a really good starting point to say, I'm going to go and seek out something else.

A lot of times this is really innocent.

I tell the story in the book of, for example, it could be people looking for workout content or parenting advice.

This, these are like two, you'd think parenting advice, workout content.

These are radioactive spaces.

mom groups on Facebook where you go and say, hey, I'm looking for some toys that are whatever.

And next thing you know, you're being fed stuff about alternative parenting techniques.

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