Trevor Noah: Who do you trust (when you don’t trust the news)?
Tools and Weapons with Brad Smith
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How Social Media Has Become Pervasive
I think it has become pervasive in a way that it was not before. Once we got to the point where people were trying to make you click on something so that they could generate revenue from that, the inter no longer became just a place of web pages. And part of the commerce was us. We were the people who were both the consumers and the products. So now here we were clicking on web sides to generate income for these people. I'm sure there are actors here and there, but i think a lot of it is just somebody out there going like, i'm just going to make stories and make clicks and get some money.
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