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Speaker 1: Jonesy and Amanda in the mornings. Now, as I said earlier,

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Speaker 1: we know Sasha Baron Cohen as the husband of actress

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Speaker 1: Isla Fisher Ossi, actress. We know him as Ali g

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Speaker 1: we know him as Borat. He was Prince Julian, the

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Speaker 1: Lema in Madagascar. You've got to move it, move it.

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Speaker 1: But what an extraordinary man he is. And he's made

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Speaker 1: an incredible speech over the weekend about social media and

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Speaker 1: about the responsibility that the social media platforms have about

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Speaker 1: unfettered political ads that they don't fact check anything. It

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Speaker 1: was so searing. Let's just start with this.

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Speaker 2: The greatest propaganda machine in history. Let's think about it. Facebook, YouTube,

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Speaker 2: and Google, Twitter and others. They reach billions of people.

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Speaker 2: The algorithms these platforms depend on deliberately amplify the type

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Speaker 2: of content that keeps users engaged, stories that appeal to

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Speaker 2: our baser instincts and trigger outrage and fear. It's why

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Speaker 2: fake news outperforms real news, because studies show that lies

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Speaker 2: spread faster than truth. Wow.

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Speaker 1: He said, if Hitler was alive today, he would have

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Speaker 1: a thirty second political ad that would not be fact

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Speaker 1: checked and would run openly on Facebook and then he said.

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Speaker 2: This Facebook will run any political ad you want, even

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Speaker 2: if it's a lie, and they'll even help you micro

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Speaker 2: target those lies to their users for maximum effect. Under

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Speaker 2: this twisted logic, if Facebook were around in the nineteen thirties,

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Speaker 2: it would have allowed Hitler to post thirty second ads

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Speaker 2: on his solution to the Jewish problem jeez.

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Speaker 1: He says that if a Nazi walks into a restaurant today,

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Speaker 1: you're not expected to serve that Nazi. You're not expected

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Speaker 1: to be polite to that Nazi. In fact, the owner

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Speaker 1: of the restaurant is more than into, titled and compelled

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Speaker 1: to disagree with this person's behavior and kick them out.

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Speaker 1: But this happens online constantly. Oh, grown ups are responsible

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Speaker 1: for it. So the same behavior that we will call

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Speaker 1: out if we see it in the street, and here

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Speaker 1: we don't.

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Speaker 2: We can we can't do it. We can't do any

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Speaker 2: of the stuff that you do on face. No.

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Speaker 1: And it's like saying Facebook says, or where the delivery service.

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Speaker 1: But if you're a delivery man and you're delivering a

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Speaker 1: child to Jeffrey Epstein, you are compelled to not to

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Speaker 1: call it out. But these guys don't. He ends by

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Speaker 1: saying that it's time for us to decide what kind

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Speaker 1: of society we want.

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Speaker 2: The ultimate aim of society should be to make sure

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Speaker 2: that people are not targeted, not harassed, and not murdered

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Speaker 2: because of who they are, where they come from, who

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Speaker 2: they love, or how they pray. If we prioritize truth

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Speaker 2: over lies, tolerance over prejudice, empathy over indifference, and experts

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Speaker 2: over ignoramuses, then maybe, just maybe we can stop the

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Speaker 2: greatest propaganda machine in history. Very nice, amazing, isn't it,

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Speaker 2: joins the and Amanda in the Morning One at one

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Speaker 2: point seven, tell you