Matt Mahan

One of the things that is interesting is the crowdsourcing of community notes on X where somebody can actually say, well, this is not the whole story.

Click here to learn more.

And so I think there's kind of this evolving space of how do we actually deal with misinformation?

And that's a harder one because –

And what you call misinformation may be somebody else saying, well, that's my opinion.

And so it becomes hard to police the truth.

And I think there are limits there to what government or technology can do in ensuring that what people are saying is truthful and accurate.

At some point here, you said a regulatory environment that needs to be enforced.

The Cambridge Analyticas of the world need to be sued and held accountable.

Sure.

maybe criminally liable.

But at some point, it's also up to us to think through our public education system about media literacy, critical thinking, training and teaching people so that they don't just passively hear something and think, oh, that must be true.

It's on steroids.

I'll grant you this.

But keep in mind, when the country was founded, everybody was running off pamphlets in the basement saying whatever the heck they wanted.

And we all was...

We've always dealt with this issue of misinformation.

This is not a new problem.

Yeah, well, first of all, the starting point on this as I came into office was things just kept getting worse year after year, even though we were spending more and more.

The state had spent over $30 billion.