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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CHRIS HAYES (HOST): There's also another thing that I've been watching happening on the right, and I think this is because of the sort
of polarization around low trust, high trust. But the <b>InfoWars-ization
of right-wing media,</b> and I say this even in the like, even when you move
it outside the bounds of polarizing, like did aliens build the
pyramids? This is like a hoary conspiratorial cliché for decades, right?
That’s the kind of thing you’re seeing right-wing media people talk
about now. It doesn’t even score a political point. It's just this view
that, like, everything they tell you is a lie, that is more and more
taking over that entire universe.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ANGELO CARUSONE (GUEST): Yes, and I think that what's concerning
about that, and sort of the fact that has led into it is that, one,
<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">obviously<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><b> social media and, in particular, the metastasizing of the
QAnon conspiracy in the spring of 2020 coupled with all of the COVID
stuff really helped that sort of, just that toxicity spill over.</b></span></span></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>But the other factor is that, it's worth keeping in mind that a very
large segment of Republican leaders started to organize power on what
used to be considered the fringes</b>. And as they started to increasingly
organize power on what used to be considered the fringes, using the
right-wing media as a conduit for accessing that, they brought all that
stuff that, you know, used to be on the fringes more toward the
center. That's why something like groomers and pedophilia would be sort
of far out there stuff years ago. And that is mainstream Republican
orthodoxy now, it's not even controversial to say that, you know,
Democrats are sexualizing children. Everyone is saying that in
Republican politics. You don't have to be an extremist to make that
point.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">HAYES: There is a final point here, which I didn't note in the
monologue, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">which is Elon Musk's particular role in this, who purchased
Twitter and one of the first, most notable things he did in Twitter. And
it was the first time I ever encountered this ludicrous, gross
conspiracy theory that the two men had some relationship and that this
was, like, a lovers' quarrel or something like that, was Elon Musk
tweeting about it in a response to Hillary Clinton. That really put
rocket fuel. He has since said he's apologized, but, like, Elon Musk
owns a huge share of this entire thing.</span></font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">CARUSONE: He does, because -- and this is <b>exactly the danger for him
being in charge. I mean, he supercharged that conspiracy theory.</b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> And
it's worth noting that that is sort of the function of Twitter now after
Elon Musk, is that it's kind of become a red pill PEZ dispenser,</span> where
these conspiracies, these really far out things are increasingly getting
supercharged because <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">they're getting<b> algorithmic boosts.</b></span><b> So even things
that Elon Musk doesn't promote, we're actually seeing get supercharged
all the time now. </b></font></p>
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