Kamala Harris
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is not to assume that the people with whom they disagree are working with the same set of information.
Now, I didn't say facts because two plus two is four.
But I think it's a big mistake for us to assume we're all working with the same information.
And then when you compound that with intentional efforts to misinformβ
and disinformed and targeted.
I was a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee when we investigated Russia's interference in the 2016 election.
We declassified our findings.
We made them public.
It included the fact that this adversarial nation included in what they targeted, they targeted black voters.
With the assumption that there are certain people and demographically certain groups who are more susceptible to an argument about why they should distrust their government because they have a lived experience that tells them that.
And so I would say flippantly, oh, so now all of a sudden the issue of race in America is a national security issue, so everybody needs to deal with it.
We know that certain demographics are targeted with mis- and disinformation, be they what we've seen around targeting young voters or other groups based on race or gender.
So when we talk about the role of the Democratic Party, there is a very big role to play, and there is a role for us to require social media companies to play, media companies to play, and so on, because information is coming from all of these places.
And the challenge is as big as are we all working with facts?
Yes.
Bless you.
Yes, rapidly.
I wanted to do Joe Rogan's show.
And there was a lot of games being played.
But I wanted to do Joe Rogan's show.