Matt Welch
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And I can't look into his brain and figure out why he's doing this. But it could very well be true that Mark Zuckerberg never believed the stuff that he was implementing on Facebook. And then we had something like COVID. And COVID is a really key component here. Because when it comes to trust in the media, It's been low for a long time. Its lowest ebb has been after COVID.
And I can't look into his brain and figure out why he's doing this. But it could very well be true that Mark Zuckerberg never believed the stuff that he was implementing on Facebook. And then we had something like COVID. And COVID is a really key component here. Because when it comes to trust in the media, It's been low for a long time. Its lowest ebb has been after COVID.
Incredibly low trust in media because people were actually paying attention. You have to wear masks. You have to stay inside. Your kids can't go to school. So you're actually checking this stuff rather than it only being left to a very narrow band of people who care about this stuff and whether the fact checkers and whether the experts are right about it.
Incredibly low trust in media because people were actually paying attention. You have to wear masks. You have to stay inside. Your kids can't go to school. So you're actually checking this stuff rather than it only being left to a very narrow band of people who care about this stuff and whether the fact checkers and whether the experts are right about it.
Incredibly low trust in media because people were actually paying attention. You have to wear masks. You have to stay inside. Your kids can't go to school. So you're actually checking this stuff rather than it only being left to a very narrow band of people who care about this stuff and whether the fact checkers and whether the experts are right about it.
So that kind of buckled people's impression of what these experts are. And so when experts, quote unquote, are coming onto Facebook and saying, no, the expert says this isn't true. We don't have that trust anymore. But to the Stossel thing, one final point is that look at the way they did this. It omits context.
So that kind of buckled people's impression of what these experts are. And so when experts, quote unquote, are coming onto Facebook and saying, no, the expert says this isn't true. We don't have that trust anymore. But to the Stossel thing, one final point is that look at the way they did this. It omits context.
So that kind of buckled people's impression of what these experts are. And so when experts, quote unquote, are coming onto Facebook and saying, no, the expert says this isn't true. We don't have that trust anymore. But to the Stossel thing, one final point is that look at the way they did this. It omits context.
Has anyone here ever written an editorial? I know all of us have. What do you do when you write an editorial? Why is the newspaper not this big, but this big? Because you have to, by nature, omit context in everything that you do. So therefore, it is a weapon to wield against anyone at any time. Of course, it's not going to have context for everything.
Has anyone here ever written an editorial? I know all of us have. What do you do when you write an editorial? Why is the newspaper not this big, but this big? Because you have to, by nature, omit context in everything that you do. So therefore, it is a weapon to wield against anyone at any time. Of course, it's not going to have context for everything.
Has anyone here ever written an editorial? I know all of us have. What do you do when you write an editorial? Why is the newspaper not this big, but this big? Because you have to, by nature, omit context in everything that you do. So therefore, it is a weapon to wield against anyone at any time. Of course, it's not going to have context for everything.
You have to leave certain things out and say, hey, the general narrative is this. I'm going to inform you about some other opinions. And then the fact checker comes in and says, well, why didn't you include the initial narrative? That is unbalanced, as it were. And this is the kind of nonsense game that these people were playing. And people were wising up to it.
You have to leave certain things out and say, hey, the general narrative is this. I'm going to inform you about some other opinions. And then the fact checker comes in and says, well, why didn't you include the initial narrative? That is unbalanced, as it were. And this is the kind of nonsense game that these people were playing. And people were wising up to it.
You have to leave certain things out and say, hey, the general narrative is this. I'm going to inform you about some other opinions. And then the fact checker comes in and says, well, why didn't you include the initial narrative? That is unbalanced, as it were. And this is the kind of nonsense game that these people were playing. And people were wising up to it.
And that's the other reason that they backed away from it.
And that's the other reason that they backed away from it.
And that's the other reason that they backed away from it.
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Well, I don't even know where to start with this. The people of Greenland as a duchy of the... Wait, wait. Start with this.