Oliver Darcy

I go back and forth, I think, day to day.

I think what really makes me pessimistic is looking at the media environment that we're in, it's getting worse and worse and more and more toxic.

It's not being cleaned up.

And the guardrails have been totally removed by the Silicon Valley titans, right?

The fact-checking that we saw in the first administration where they were committed to fact-checking, they were committed to policing misinformation.

That's all gone.

That's all gone, right?

Like Twitter had a lot of problems before.

I mean, Elon Musk has removed all the guardrails.

Like his AI is literally undressing women and minors and companies are still investing in it.

I think maybe a little bit because suddenly they'll have to answer at least to someone, which would be the Democrats in Congress.

But I think we need to really reckon with the fact that our information environment is –

at maybe its most unhealthy state ever.

Yeah.

It's very, very sick.

And it's like the antibodies that were like, you know, fighting the sickness are actually being depleted and patients itself is very sick.

And it's like, you go on like some of these crazy conspiracy theorists, you know, on their Instagram page and you see all the people, you know, that are liking their content that is just crazy and unhinged.

These are your family members.

These are your friends.

And they have, I think, fallen victim to a lot of bad faith actors and the garbage they're putting out into the public discourse.