Kind of understanding fake news, I think you have to realize that fake news, what John George was saying, has a purpose, and it's to turn profits.
And we've got to understand here that fake news does its job, no matter whether it's figured out and people shed light on it or not.
Because damage is done, and that's what they're looking to do, is to inflict damage or to support a narrative using something that may or may not be true.
Now, because of intellectual integrity, these communication or networks, as some people might still call them, will still come out and make corrections to their false narratives or fake news.
But again, you can't undo what's already happened.
And if you notice, a trend on Twitter is that the fake news will get tens of thousands of retweets, and then the corrections for the fake news will get like 72.
And so they understand that they have a certain level of ability for that day or two to kind of release the story as they see it.
And then as long as they pull back a day or two later, then nobody can accuse them of anything.
And so what they're doing is they're taking information initially and initial reports, they're spinning them the way they want to, they're getting the effect that they desire, and it's working to change our culture.
So I think as an individual, it's important that when you're talking about news, even if it's from a site you trust, you need to wait some things out before you jump to a conclusion on them.
We all know that.
Even with 9-11, people don't fully know all the sites, all the stories, what exactly happened.
And here we are in a long-standing war in the Middle East that we haven't been able to figure out why, because it's a country, we reacted on news before we knew all the facts.
Turns out there was no weapons of mass destruction inside of Iraq, but we were fed it, we swallowed up.
And that was mostly conservatives who got that lie.
So we're to blame as well.
And we believed our government.
But like I would say, don't trust the government.
Even if you love Trump, you don't trust the government.
Okay?
Because you've got to realize the government is not to be trusted.
They should be feared and respected because they have power.
But remember that the power can be taken from them and we can take it from them.
And the media is the same way.
We're so quick to say that with the government, we can take the power back from the media.
And what is it?
It's exactly why HuffPost and BuzzFeed had to lay off their opinion editors.
It's because people don't want their opinions.
And tell the rest of the country that most of the major news network narratives are just that.
They're just opinion pieces.
They're just rhetoric and narratives being sold to the public as news.
The sooner these companies will be out of business.
I think CNN will be gone within 10 years.
I pray to God they will.
And I pray that Fox News would also learn a thing or two and they would start getting more accurate and stop doing the same thing for the right as well.
If we're not able to recognize what the actual narrative is, then we're just going to believe the lie, which those two idiots did.
Are you actually of service to the media is convincing black people that there's racism in this country?
No, that's not what I said.
I said that's not what I said.
That's not what I said.
That's not what I said.
I'll explain why.
Okay, we're going to move on to the next one.
I'll answer.
I want to answer.
I want to answer him.
I want to answer him.
So when I say things like Martin Luther King Jr. was arrested for praying on the steps of the City Hall in Albany, Georgia.
So when you have people, the mainstream media say MOK is producing hate.
He should be censored.
Arrest him.
All he was doing was praying because he had a narrative that was contrary to what the public had.
So what I'm saying is that the mainstream media is not telling people that racism people know racism exists.
What they're saying is that they're saying that they're only producing one narrative, that me as a black man, we as black men, our existence is in danger simply because we're black.
What we're seeing is a kid in a hat smiling in the face of a left-wing activist, and they're saying that that's the biggest form of racism in this country.
Well, what you're saying, every single word you said is more important than a single second of that story.
But you're not getting any airtime, and these are not there.
This is a real call to action for us here and I want us to leave with a takeaway.
Really important question, your motives of why you're doing all that you're doing.
Do you really care about the country?
Do you really actually care about the people in the world?
Are you prideful?
Do you just want your ideas to be seen as true because you want to look good?
Because you want to gain authority?
You want to gain respect?
Why are you doing what you're doing?
And I think getting people to change, people do change because facts help people change, but this is where the left gets it right, and you were mentioning this.
If people don't think you care about them, and I don't mean that, you think you can BS anybody, people know when you don't care about them.
And I think you can answer yourself, do you really care about the people that disagree with you?
Or are you just trying to convert them and change them to your side?
Are you just trying to get them to believe what you believe?
Because you might actually be the one that's ignorant and needs the changing.
And so the reality of the matter is, is when you sit there, when you look at yourself, you've got to ask, in every single situation, why am I doing what I'm doing?
And if you can say it's genuinely out of the love for people, the love for your country, or the love for God, whatever it is that drives you and motivates you and it's for good, then you're on a good course.
But I think this country would be a lot better if people were less concerned about pushing their narratives because they want to be right than they were about wanting to be right so that they can help someone else get ahead.
And if your ideas are to advance other people and to empower them and to give them that freedom, that liberty, whether you're coming from a completely socialist or comics, I don't know exactly where you stand, somewhere in there.
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You seem like you're a little bit, you don't know where you stand either.
You know, or you are a far-right person, ask yourself that question.
Why?
And if the motive is pure, then you'll probably have a pure result.
And I'm going to tell you what, there are some left-wing ideas that are good, and there are some that are very bad.
And there are some right-wing ideas that are good, and there are some that are also very bad.
And if you can't see that, and you realize that a person is not defined by their ideas, that the value comes from who they are as a human being, then you're missing the point.
And love needs to be at the core of everything we do and this country will
