WEBVTT - Breitbart Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow 0:00:01.700 --> 0:00:04.500 It's 8.06 at 55KRC, the talk station. Brian Thomas here 0:00:04.519 --> 0:00:07.020 wishing everyone a very happy Tuesday and welcoming to the 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:09.320 55KRC Morning Show, a segment we do each week at 0:00:09.380 --> 0:00:12.100 this time, the Insight Scoop with Breitbart News. Always start 0:00:12.140 --> 0:00:17.180 out by telling my listening audience, bookmark the site, Breitbart, B-R-E-I-T-B-A-R-T.com. 0:00:17.680 --> 0:00:19.290 You'll be glad you did because you can read what 0:00:19.329 --> 0:00:22.570 Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow writes about among the other topics. 0:00:22.670 --> 0:00:25.150 Alex Marlow, welcome back to the 55KRC Morning Show. Your 0:00:25.190 --> 0:00:27.230 name came up earlier in the program. We were talking 0:00:27.250 --> 0:00:29.470 about Empower You seminars. Welcome back, my friend. 0:00:30.720 --> 0:00:32.159 Thank you, Brian. I always appreciate what you do for 0:00:32.180 --> 0:00:34.199 Breitbart and for your audience. 0:00:34.400 --> 0:00:37.019 Well, we're all trying to do it for the audience. 0:00:37.060 --> 0:00:38.760 I mean, this is why we exist. We're trying to 0:00:38.780 --> 0:00:41.540 keep people on the straight and narrow and logical, reasonable 0:00:41.580 --> 0:00:43.840 path and keep our country alive. I mean, Lord Almighty, 0:00:43.860 --> 0:00:45.620 we see what's going on in France. We're about half 0:00:45.659 --> 0:00:51.769 a baby step away from that reality. Your background is tremendous. 0:00:51.800 --> 0:00:54.650 I have to just note, because your bio talks about 0:00:54.670 --> 0:00:57.430 your long-term relationship with Andrew Breitbart, you were the first 0:00:57.490 --> 0:01:00.790 Breitbart employee... and you started out in his basement. You 0:01:00.830 --> 0:01:03.270 started out and you met him in college, and your 0:01:03.310 --> 0:01:07.410 first career move was to take a huge risk by 0:01:07.569 --> 0:01:09.330 working in the basement. And I got a kick out 0:01:09.350 --> 0:01:10.929 of the fact that you were in charge of making 0:01:10.990 --> 0:01:12.589 sure there was Diet Coke in the fridge. I had 0:01:12.640 --> 0:01:14.820 a similar experience. I left a very large law firm 0:01:14.860 --> 0:01:18.360 in Chicago. A couple of partners broke off and asked 0:01:18.380 --> 0:01:20.899 me to come with them. So we started out in 0:01:20.959 --> 0:01:23.180 a conference room in a rented space, and I was 0:01:23.220 --> 0:01:26.350 in charge of coffee procurement. So You've got to do 0:01:26.370 --> 0:01:28.190 the little things when you're starting off in a new business. 0:01:28.209 --> 0:01:29.729 But it all worked out great for you, and I'm 0:01:29.770 --> 0:01:31.520 happy with where I ended up. And I'm glad you're 0:01:31.530 --> 0:01:34.800 doing the Empower You seminar tonight because I need you 0:01:34.840 --> 0:01:36.560 to react to this. Because one of the things you're 0:01:36.580 --> 0:01:39.640 going to be doing, the topic, economics polls and trolls 0:01:39.700 --> 0:01:45.240 with Alex Marlowe. Can we believe what we see online? 0:01:45.300 --> 0:01:47.250 One of the rhetorical questions you're going to dive on into. 0:01:47.330 --> 0:01:48.780 Today.... 0:01:49.270 --> 0:01:51.130 I don't know if you're familiar with the gubernatorial race 0:01:51.150 --> 0:01:54.590 here in Ohio, but it's Vivek Ramaswamy, demonstrably better candidate 0:01:54.610 --> 0:01:56.950 than Amy Acton. But Amy Acton's mom just made a 0:01:56.990 --> 0:02:00.420 commercial for a pack where she specifically calls out her 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:05.120 own daughter, a liar. My name is Donna Arthur, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. 0:02:05.140 --> 0:02:06.840 I love my daughter, but when I saw her lying 0:02:06.880 --> 0:02:08.620 about her opponent, it's not easy for a mother to 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.150 say this, but Amy has a serious problem. She is 0:02:11.270 --> 0:02:13.450 a liar. She lies about her past. She says she 0:02:13.490 --> 0:02:15.130 grew up living in a tent. None of that's true. 0:02:15.550 --> 0:02:18.410 She's lied her entire life. My daughter needs help, among 0:02:18.450 --> 0:02:21.530 the other comments. My first reaction, Alex, and the reason 0:02:21.570 --> 0:02:23.590 I bring that up, not just to remind my listening 0:02:23.650 --> 0:02:26.869 audience about that going on, but my first reaction was, 0:02:27.230 --> 0:02:29.950 this has to be AI. You know, I mean, we 0:02:29.990 --> 0:02:32.329 can't tell the difference between truth and fiction with video 0:02:32.450 --> 0:02:35.490 even these days. And I thought maybe someone got hook, line, 0:02:35.530 --> 0:02:38.260 and sinker drawn into this because whose mom would say 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.700 something like that about Amy Acton? Well, apparently, Amy Acton's 0:02:41.740 --> 0:02:42.180 mom would. 0:02:43.490 --> 0:02:46.110 Yeah, this is an everyday occurrence where there's something online 0:02:46.130 --> 0:02:48.750 where you feel like, how could that possibly be real? 0:02:48.910 --> 0:02:50.790 And then it does turn out to be real. 0:02:50.850 --> 0:02:52.810 I mean, there was one with this French rioting over 0:02:52.850 --> 0:02:54.690 the weekend where there was an old couple in their 0:02:54.730 --> 0:02:57.840 underpants and a bunch of black-clad younger people taking stuff 0:02:57.850 --> 0:02:58.090 from them. 0:02:58.560 --> 0:03:00.540 That can't be real. Oh, no, it was real. There's 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.700 an Elon Musk flying car from last weekend. How is 0:03:02.720 --> 0:03:03.880 that real? Apparently it was. 0:03:04.900 --> 0:03:07.580 Each and every day we get another example of something 0:03:07.600 --> 0:03:08.400 where we can't tell if it's true. 0:03:08.460 --> 0:03:11.300 It was Alyssa Slotkin. 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.230 Yesterday, who is saying flat out she is going to 0:03:16.070 --> 0:03:19.669 prosecute and to hold legally accountable anyone who works for 0:03:19.710 --> 0:03:22.530 Donald Trump simply because they're Republicans. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:22.740 Yeah. 0:03:23.090 --> 0:03:23.830 That's the type of stuff. 0:03:23.889 --> 0:03:25.530 I wrote a whole book, which we discussed on the show, 0:03:25.560 --> 0:03:28.059 Breaking the Law, my last book, about this phenomenon where 0:03:28.139 --> 0:03:30.579 I have to convince people this is how the Democrats 0:03:30.620 --> 0:03:31.180 are behaving. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:32.989 And then she just flat out goes and says it. 0:03:33.080 --> 0:03:36.040 I wrote 250 pages explaining that's how they really think. 0:03:36.360 --> 0:03:37.840 And then I never had a quote like that where 0:03:37.860 --> 0:03:39.620 they're just saying, hey, we're going to go after Republicans 0:03:39.640 --> 0:03:41.440 just for the sake of being Republicans. I would have 0:03:41.460 --> 0:03:42.839 killed for that quote when I was doing the book 0:03:42.860 --> 0:03:45.740 because we all know that's what they think. They just 0:03:45.780 --> 0:03:47.760 started saying it out loud. And again, I had the 0:03:47.800 --> 0:03:50.130 same thought as you, Brian. That's got to be AI, right? 0:03:50.190 --> 0:03:52.930 Like a clever Republican made that up and put those 0:03:52.970 --> 0:03:53.650 words in their mouth. 0:03:53.690 --> 0:03:56.910 Nope, they didn't. How are we to, you know, how 0:03:56.940 --> 0:03:58.740 do we know what's true and what's not online? 0:03:58.780 --> 0:04:00.800 I mean, I speak truth. 0:04:00.880 --> 0:04:03.800 I try to rely on the most confident resources I 0:04:03.840 --> 0:04:05.580 can come up with. I'm a fan of Breitbart. I 0:04:05.600 --> 0:04:07.700 know you guys do your due diligence in your reporting. 0:04:08.020 --> 0:04:10.260 You also, you know, link sources where some of the 0:04:10.300 --> 0:04:13.140 information comes from. I'm a fan of the Wall Street Journal. Yes, 0:04:13.160 --> 0:04:14.520 some of the things I like and some of the 0:04:14.540 --> 0:04:17.820 things I don't, but they do good, credible journalism and 0:04:17.860 --> 0:04:23.270 they're good at fact checking but once you gravitate over 0:04:23.350 --> 0:04:26.150 to one of the more suspect sources and that's kind 0:04:26.190 --> 0:04:29.090 of any other side page that doesn't get as many 0:04:29.130 --> 0:04:31.810 hits isn't known for the you know what they do 0:04:32.230 --> 0:04:35.589 then we're lost in a in almost an unnavigable environment 0:04:35.710 --> 0:04:37.390 alex how do we deal with something like. 0:04:37.270 --> 0:04:40.980 That yeah it's tough i actually if it's some people 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.200 see this as maybe a positive others probably less of 0:04:44.260 --> 0:04:47.620 a positive but I don't think the AI slop, as 0:04:47.670 --> 0:04:49.690 we call it, that we're seeing online, I don't think 0:04:49.750 --> 0:04:53.349 it's less accurate than the previous age of media fact checking. 0:04:53.430 --> 0:04:56.030 I think the previous age of media fact checking was 0:04:56.070 --> 0:05:00.170 somehow even worse. And so we've garbage in and garbage out, 0:05:00.270 --> 0:05:03.210 but some of the AI models, particularly Grok, seem to 0:05:03.250 --> 0:05:06.729 be less biased than any sort of major newsroom that 0:05:06.850 --> 0:05:09.130 you would see. And so they were putting out false 0:05:09.170 --> 0:05:12.299 stuff all the time. And Again, not to plug. 0:05:12.320 --> 0:05:12.740 All my books. 0:05:12.760 --> 0:05:15.000 I'm not making money off of these books anymore at 0:05:15.040 --> 0:05:16.680 this point, guys. So if you buy one of my books, 0:05:16.700 --> 0:05:18.849 it's just because I believe in what I wrote in it. 0:05:19.140 --> 0:05:21.099 My first book, Breaking the News, I wrote about the media. 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:24.099 And I talked about the agendas the media has. 0:05:24.300 --> 0:05:25.820 But I go through all these examples. They were just 0:05:25.900 --> 0:05:26.700 blatantly false. 0:05:26.720 --> 0:05:29.620 They would ride not for a story or two stories, 0:05:29.660 --> 0:05:31.760 but for months and months and months, just the same 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:34.789 falsehoods repeated over and over again. And I do think 0:05:35.110 --> 0:05:38.390 in an AI era, we actually could probably fight through 0:05:38.430 --> 0:05:40.050 those news cycles a little quicker. 0:05:40.540 --> 0:05:42.520 So the best thing that you could do. 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.550 Is you try to find sources that are consistently accurate 0:05:46.020 --> 0:05:48.909 because we're all busy. And then if you do find 0:05:48.970 --> 0:05:52.470 something that you feel like is suspect, try to see 0:05:52.510 --> 0:05:55.250 if it appears at one of those sources you trust. 0:05:55.290 --> 0:05:57.570 And if it doesn't, then that's a good time to 0:05:57.630 --> 0:05:59.330 run it through a rock or something like that and say, 0:05:59.350 --> 0:06:00.930 is this true? And you're not going to get 100% 0:06:00.930 --> 0:06:03.550 batting average doing that. But for busy people, that's generally 0:06:03.589 --> 0:06:04.290 a pretty good process. 0:06:04.779 --> 0:06:07.380 Indeed. And I guess one of my concerns along those 0:06:07.420 --> 0:06:11.400 lines is the learning models that these AI systems use, 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.540 it's sort of a volume-based thing. I recall a Reddit 0:06:15.640 --> 0:06:19.300 subgroup conducted a test, and the purpose was to perpetuate 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:23.400 an absolute outright lie. I mean, it was bizarre. Like, J.D. 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:25.690 Vance was dead, or J.D. Vance killed Donald Trump, or 0:06:25.730 --> 0:06:28.590 something really crazy. And it involved even more something, even 0:06:28.630 --> 0:06:30.630 something crazier than that. But they went around and they 0:06:30.690 --> 0:06:33.010 repeated it, and they put it on different news sites, 0:06:33.050 --> 0:06:37.680 and they posted it elsewhere. So repetition appeared ultimately to 0:06:37.720 --> 0:06:39.580 give credibility to it so much so that when you 0:06:39.600 --> 0:06:43.820 typed in a question about that in AI, it confirmed 0:06:43.860 --> 0:06:45.660 at least to a certain degree that that lie was 0:06:45.720 --> 0:06:48.430 in fact true. I mean, that's a reality that we 0:06:48.450 --> 0:06:50.409 might run into unless they change the learning model. 0:06:50.450 --> 0:06:54.970 We're definitely, particularly with you, Anthropic and ChatGPT, which is 0:06:55.190 --> 0:06:58.669 open AI, both are very left and everyone there is left. 0:06:58.850 --> 0:07:00.610 And we're going to have the same issues as we've 0:07:00.650 --> 0:07:03.400 seen with Google searches with a By the way, so 0:07:03.420 --> 0:07:05.480 anything Gemini is going to be the same thing where 0:07:05.580 --> 0:07:11.200 Google basically banishes a lot of conservative sites from their results. 0:07:11.400 --> 0:07:12.700 And so this has been a big thing in the 0:07:12.720 --> 0:07:14.760 news business lately, Brian, is that a lot of these 0:07:14.810 --> 0:07:17.970 websites are losing tons of traffic now because of AI, 0:07:18.130 --> 0:07:20.510 because people are going to AI instead of Google and 0:07:20.530 --> 0:07:23.400 they relied on Google for their traffic. Well, I can't 0:07:23.420 --> 0:07:25.580 rely on Google for my traffic because we're basically banned 0:07:25.600 --> 0:07:28.520 from Google. Again, something that we've researched and reported on 0:07:28.800 --> 0:07:31.720 repeatedly shows up in my first book as well, how 0:07:31.920 --> 0:07:34.680 Google doesn't allow for people to get to Breitbart stuff 0:07:35.180 --> 0:07:37.730 unless you put the word Breitbart in the search. So 0:07:37.750 --> 0:07:40.570 unless you physically search the word Breitbart, you're not getting 0:07:40.610 --> 0:07:42.850 any of our stories, even if they're exclusive or the 0:07:42.890 --> 0:07:46.510 authoritative story on that subject matter, which is horrific. 0:07:46.810 --> 0:07:49.070 And I don't know how it's legal, but it's held 0:07:49.210 --> 0:07:51.650 up to this point. But so then I'm not dependent 0:07:51.690 --> 0:07:51.910 on them. 0:07:52.010 --> 0:07:54.260 A lot of these websites that you read, a lot 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:56.860 of these newspapers that you read are dependent on Google 0:07:56.900 --> 0:07:59.360 funneling them tons of traffic. And people aren't going to 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:01.580 Google to figure out what's going on. They're going to 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:04.160 their AIs at this point. So it's kind of interesting 0:08:04.180 --> 0:08:06.690 that that's a new thing. They're going to get hoisted 0:08:06.810 --> 0:08:08.730 on their own petard, as the expression goes. 0:08:08.890 --> 0:08:11.270 Well, one might hope, but I mean, a lot of 0:08:11.310 --> 0:08:14.450 my listeners, I always consider myself like you. We can 0:08:14.490 --> 0:08:17.570 label ourselves, and it's a positive, weed dwellers when it 0:08:17.610 --> 0:08:20.160 comes to politics. We can label ourselves weed-drawers when it 0:08:20.220 --> 0:08:23.660 comes to ferreting through nefarious information versus accurate information. We 0:08:23.680 --> 0:08:26.500 can search for the truth because we know the trusted 0:08:26.580 --> 0:08:29.300 news sites, and you, as you pointed out, know how 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.800 the quote-unquote nefarious forces work, like your illustration with Google. 0:08:34.380 --> 0:08:37.550 But how are the run-of-the-mill folks who've got more important 0:08:37.590 --> 0:08:39.589 things to do with their lives and follow the minutiae 0:08:39.610 --> 0:08:42.089 of this, how are we out there supposed to deal 0:08:42.130 --> 0:08:44.530 with this in this emerging brave new world, if I 0:08:44.550 --> 0:08:46.670 can call that, drawing Aldous Huxley reference? 0:08:47.820 --> 0:08:49.859 Well, I'm new as much as I can on the 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:53.230 politics and international news front at Breitbart.com. 0:08:53.250 --> 0:08:54.710 So you get the Breitbart app. It's the best thing 0:08:54.730 --> 0:08:56.010 you can do. That's number one. 0:08:56.929 --> 0:08:59.170 I think that's the first thing you can do because 0:08:59.230 --> 0:09:02.050 if we're doing stuff, you know it's accurate because, first 0:09:02.070 --> 0:09:03.370 of all, we have morals and standards. 0:09:03.410 --> 0:09:05.949 But second of all, the fact-checkers are on our case. 0:09:06.390 --> 0:09:09.929 So anything that is wrong, we're getting corrected the moment 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:10.339 it happens. 0:09:10.860 --> 0:09:13.439 And all of you guys are good fact-checkers too. So 0:09:13.559 --> 0:09:15.510 we keep an eye on what our audience is telling us. 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.380 If they think something is inaccurate, then they're not going 0:09:17.400 --> 0:09:21.230 to get it. But overall, I think that there is 0:09:21.309 --> 0:09:24.390 a huge crisis in credibility and trust in the media, 0:09:24.470 --> 0:09:27.490 and it's on individual outlets to be able to sort 0:09:27.510 --> 0:09:30.709 it out. But the people are smart, and there's lots 0:09:30.750 --> 0:09:33.970 of volume. So if you go to– again, if you're 0:09:34.030 --> 0:09:38.890 skeptical of a story, I would recommend going to Grok 0:09:39.090 --> 0:09:41.170 or X, the Everything app, and putting it in the 0:09:41.230 --> 0:09:41.890 Grok thing. 0:09:42.610 --> 0:09:43.609 Saying, is this accurate? 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:45.589 And usually you're going to get a pretty good sense 0:09:45.650 --> 0:09:47.310 of if something's accurate at that point. 0:09:47.710 --> 0:09:49.449 And if you're not convinced, then just don't repeat it 0:09:49.470 --> 0:09:51.110 to your friends or don't share it with people until 0:09:51.130 --> 0:09:51.410 you are. 0:09:52.590 --> 0:09:55.390 That's sound advice right there, Alex. Well, and you know, 0:09:55.410 --> 0:09:58.709 the idea of social media influencers, perhaps that people, and 0:09:58.750 --> 0:10:02.360 here's my, my often repeated rules for memes. I get 0:10:02.420 --> 0:10:04.340 memes all the time. I have friends who are just 0:10:04.500 --> 0:10:06.959 meme fanatics. So I'll get, I'll get 15, 20 in 0:10:06.980 --> 0:10:10.710 a row from some folks. Sometimes you're like, wow. But 0:10:10.780 --> 0:10:13.950 most of the times I'm, wait a second, that can't 0:10:14.070 --> 0:10:16.170 be true. So I'll follow up with it and I'll 0:10:16.190 --> 0:10:17.929 type in the information that's in a meme and I'll 0:10:17.970 --> 0:10:20.740 find out, yeah, you know, Andy sent me another one 0:10:20.780 --> 0:10:23.540 that sounds plausible, but it is not true. So maybe 0:10:23.580 --> 0:10:26.500 we need to fact check what we're hearing from social 0:10:26.559 --> 0:10:29.410 media influencers online and various podcasts online. 0:10:30.010 --> 0:10:32.290 Yeah, I'm very interested in exploring this. I was thinking 0:10:32.330 --> 0:10:40.060 about this recently about how the memes, the individual influencers online, 0:10:40.300 --> 0:10:45.300 particularly I've been noticing this on the meta platform, Instagram, 0:10:45.740 --> 0:10:48.300 and I'm not on Facebook a lot, and I'm not 0:10:48.340 --> 0:10:50.020 on TikTok a lot, but I know the stuff on 0:10:50.040 --> 0:10:53.220 TikTok is just completely deranged. At this point, TikTok's 100% 0:10:53.220 --> 0:10:56.570 responsible for the Lindsay Clancy phenomenon that we all were 0:10:56.610 --> 0:10:59.630 forced to live through that was completely egged on by TikTok. 0:11:00.130 --> 0:11:03.890 There's so much false stuff from individual creators that's promoted 0:11:03.929 --> 0:11:07.050 in the algorithms, and then it'll get hundreds of thousands 0:11:07.090 --> 0:11:09.910 of likes on it, And as a person who runs 0:11:09.960 --> 0:11:12.520 a pretty big newsroom, I feel very odd, you know, 0:11:12.540 --> 0:11:17.460 correcting some person with 12,000 followers who had one viral post, 0:11:17.500 --> 0:11:21.860 but the algorithm does keep pushing the inaccurate posts because 0:11:21.920 --> 0:11:24.600 people engage with it. And that is a curse. It 0:11:24.640 --> 0:11:26.739 really is a curse that we're dealing with this right now. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.200 And it's very hard to fight through it, especially when 0:11:30.220 --> 0:11:34.360 you're seeing, you know, Mark Zuckerberg 2.0 is he's been 0:11:34.400 --> 0:11:36.400 kind of cool to Trump all of a sudden. And so, 0:11:36.990 --> 0:11:39.110 What's the Trump administration going to do? Just go in 0:11:39.150 --> 0:11:41.570 there and say, hey, Mark, all these false stuff that 0:11:41.590 --> 0:11:43.790 make us look bad are going viral. Can you shut 0:11:43.809 --> 0:11:46.380 that down? It's kind of a weird move. It's kind 0:11:46.410 --> 0:11:47.740 of a weird move if the White House were to 0:11:47.780 --> 0:11:50.340 do that. So it's a real new frontier that we're in, 0:11:50.460 --> 0:11:52.059 and we've got to work through it each and every day. 0:11:52.280 --> 0:11:54.000 Well, haven't we been through that or down that road 0:11:54.020 --> 0:11:57.980 before with the prior administration and having agents inside Facebooks 0:11:58.040 --> 0:11:59.280 and other social media platforms? 0:12:00.380 --> 0:12:02.929 Yeah, and I think it's not a great look when 0:12:03.690 --> 0:12:06.920 you learn that Joe Biden was pressuring Trump zuckerberg to 0:12:07.059 --> 0:12:09.880 change stuff in the election zuckerberg said so it's not 0:12:09.900 --> 0:12:11.520 a great look so trump's got to be thinking about 0:12:11.570 --> 0:12:13.650 that but you know on the zuckerberg platforms there's just 0:12:13.710 --> 0:12:16.830 tons and tons of far-left falsehoods that go viral every 0:12:16.850 --> 0:12:19.270 day and a lot of people aren't going to be 0:12:19.830 --> 0:12:21.950 smart about sorting it out is that your audience will 0:12:22.010 --> 0:12:25.650 my audience will but that's not the whole world unfortunately. 0:12:25.530 --> 0:12:27.490 Well and going back to the number of clicks likes 0:12:27.630 --> 0:12:30.530 reposts we can't even trust that. I mean, there are 0:12:30.590 --> 0:12:34.929 bot farms out there that self-serving, politically motivated Chinese Communist 0:12:34.970 --> 0:12:38.670 Party bot farms that seek to undermine America's interests and 0:12:38.710 --> 0:12:41.230 will stir the pot of whatever it's in its best 0:12:41.270 --> 0:12:45.089 interest by giving the appearance that any given post is popular. 0:12:46.070 --> 0:12:47.670 Yeah, totally, totally right. 0:12:47.740 --> 0:12:50.120 It's very, it's just, it's so challenging out there in 0:12:50.140 --> 0:12:53.400 this regard because so many people buy followers so you 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:55.340 think they're credible because you have a lot of followers, 0:12:55.380 --> 0:12:56.939 but a lot of them aren't real. There's a lot 0:12:56.960 --> 0:13:00.569 of followers who are, you know, foreign, but, but that 0:13:00.590 --> 0:13:02.610 just means we can't count who they are. It's not 0:13:02.630 --> 0:13:04.750 that I, we have an international audience too. 0:13:04.790 --> 0:13:05.230 That's great. 0:13:05.330 --> 0:13:07.210 But a lot of them are these farms that are 0:13:07.250 --> 0:13:10.429 overseas and they're simulating lots of people and they're not 0:13:11.070 --> 0:13:12.670 in a lot of the engagement. You can see a 0:13:12.670 --> 0:13:15.090 lot of the engagement on certain platforms is AI. I 0:13:15.130 --> 0:13:18.429 noticed this in my mentions on certain platforms that a 0:13:18.470 --> 0:13:20.350 lot of it is just clearly not a human being 0:13:20.390 --> 0:13:22.670 who wrote it. It's just really sloppy AI stuff that 0:13:23.130 --> 0:13:24.860 people are doing to try to build their own accounts 0:13:24.890 --> 0:13:27.870 by engaging with other accounts. And It is very hard 0:13:27.890 --> 0:13:29.880 to sort out what's real and what's fiction now. So 0:13:29.920 --> 0:13:32.880 that's why I recommend get some books, go take a walk, 0:13:32.920 --> 0:13:34.880 go touch some grass. Don't spend your whole day on 0:13:34.900 --> 0:13:35.280 the Internet. 0:13:35.940 --> 0:13:39.360 And log in at 7 p.m. EmpowerYouAmerica.org where my guest 0:13:39.380 --> 0:13:42.790 today from Breitbart, Alex Marlow, will be doing economics, polls, 0:13:42.970 --> 0:13:45.710 and trolls. You can talk to him, ask questions. This 0:13:45.730 --> 0:13:47.429 is going to be a nice one. You have interactive exchange, 0:13:47.470 --> 0:13:49.170 and he can give you a lot more information about 0:13:49.190 --> 0:13:51.030 what we scratched the surface on this morning on the 0:13:51.090 --> 0:13:54.330 Breitbart Inside Scoop. Thank you, Alex, for everything that you 0:13:54.350 --> 0:13:56.510 do throughout the week. I appreciate your teaming up with 0:13:56.910 --> 0:13:58.970 Andrew Breitbart so many years ago and doing the great 0:13:59.010 --> 0:14:01.220 work that he started. I look forward to having your 0:14:01.260 --> 0:14:03.380 team back on the program next Tuesday at the same time. 0:14:03.420 --> 0:14:05.620 Have a great week and enjoy the seminar tonight, my friend.