Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux - 4226 Hoaxed Trailer!
Aired: 2018-10-16
Duration: 02:03


=== Fake News War (02:01) ===

[00:00:01]  I am officially running for President of the United States, and we are going to make our country great again.
[00:00:11]  So help me God. Congratulations, Mr.
[00:00:14]  President. How do we explain how this is possible?
[00:00:17]  How did this happen?
[00:00:20]  Since Election Day, questions have been raised about the role that false news stories distributed online played in the final result.
[00:00:26]  There's been a lot of talk lately about...
[00:00:27]  Fake news. Fake news. Fake news.
[00:00:29]  Hoax sites and hyper-partisan blogs.
[00:00:31]  A threat to democracy.
[00:00:33]  All media is narrative.
[00:00:36]  And we are in a war of narratives.
[00:00:38]  I think it's interesting to have someone like Mike doing a documentary about fake news because it's owning a term that has been directed at him.
[00:00:47]  Until it happens to you, you can't really understand How powerful the fake news is.
[00:00:53]  People who have been printed in the media a lot can start to identify who is fake news.
[00:00:59]  I've been lied about repeatedly.
[00:01:00]  My friends have been lied about.
[00:01:02]  Because they know their true story more than anyone.
[00:01:05]  I don't have to frame them.
[00:01:06]  I just have to talk about what they've done.
[00:01:10]  We are told by the media what the world is.
[00:01:14]  We are told what is right, what is wrong, what to believe, who to love, who to hate.
[00:01:19]  I think that the media will gin up controversy to create an environment of discontent.
[00:01:26]  There are people on both sides who just want us to go to war.
[00:01:30]  Congressman Steve Scalise has been shot.
[00:01:32]  The suspect was upset over the election of President Trump.
[00:01:36]  Falsehoods have consequences.
[00:01:38]  That's what makes them false.
[00:01:42]  Like, that's unbelievable.
[00:01:44]  I don't understand why I haven't heard of this.
[00:01:47]  In a way, the media is designed not to inform you, but to keep you uninformed.
[00:01:52]  I have over three, four thousand friends on Facebook.
[00:01:55]  I've never seen that story publicly.
[00:01:58]  So as soon as they introduced the idea that news could be fake, it was turned against them almost immediately.