Back to episode — Episode 2513 CWSA 06/22/24
Context —
anged to talk to Michael Ian Black, who is an online presence in the political conversation. He has very Democrat-centric kind of views. And I caught his attention by posting that all the news is fake. And he questions how I know anything's true and why do I keep reposting the news if I think it's all fake. And those, I say, are good questions. And so rather than discuss what would be, oh by the w…
← Previous segment →things that I've taught you about how to spot fake news. And I thought it would be really useful to run over that list with him and just see if he kind of tracks with the tools, not necessarily the conclusions. Because I think that's where you find the common ground. Because I'm not going to tell him that everything the news on the right is true and the news on the left is wrong. Yeah, the Scott Alexander rule is if it looks too amazing to believe or too incredible to believe, it probably wasn't true, right? And it's very consistent. You'll see that all the time.
All right. So we'll look for that. And everybody on YouTube and Rumble and X, I'll see you tomorrow, same time, same place. And locals, here I go.