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Ryan Bridge: The problem with internet conspiracy theories · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Karmala Harris was wearing audio earrings during the debate this week.
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  Speaker 1: Did you hear about this? Yeah, she was cheating. They
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  Speaker 1: looked like pearl earrings, but they also look like audio earrings.
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  Speaker 1: You can buy them and you can have your staff
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  Speaker 1: feed you information and in real time during a debate,
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  Speaker 1: they can coach you live. Yeah, it's real. I read
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  Speaker 1: it on the Internet. And that's the problem, isn't it.
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  Speaker 1: Some corners of the Internet there are you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: the dog duck immigrant conspiracy thing, there's the transmigrant prisoner
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  Speaker 1: sexchange thing, and now there's the Carmela earrings AIDS thing. Misinformation, disinformation, conspiracies,
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  Speaker 1: whatever they are, they seem to be everywhere at the moment.
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  Speaker 1: Karmala Harris is pushing the conspiracies too. You remember she
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  Speaker 1: said during the debate that Trump would implement Project twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five if elected. He says he won't. Isn't that
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  Speaker 1: the same thing? Just lies, just making stuff up. Don't
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  Speaker 1: get me wrong. I do love a good conspiracy, especially
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  Speaker 1: the bizarre ones you get out of states, but I
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  Speaker 1: would never go nuts online trying to prove one The
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  Speaker 1: Internet's screwed our brains in that way, what would have
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  Speaker 1: once just been a word of mouth rumor or gossip
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  Speaker 1: now spreads and presents itself as real news and has
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  Speaker 1: lapped up by millions of people. The biggest problem I
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  Speaker 1: reckon we have two cohorts of Internet users, ones who
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  Speaker 1: lived before the most of their lives without the Internet,
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  Speaker 1: and they place a lot of faith and trust in
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  Speaker 1: what's being written and said, because that's how we used
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  Speaker 1: to operate, remember, And then there are those who are
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  Speaker 1: URL natives who know full well the absolute crap and
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  Speaker 1: the shite that you get online. Which is not to
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  Speaker 1: say it's a generational thing, because you know, people at
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  Speaker 1: both can get caught out. But we are supposedly living
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  Speaker 1: right now in the enlightened age where the Internet would
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  Speaker 1: democratize information make it accessible to all of us. We'd
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  Speaker 1: all be better informed and better off with all the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of human history available at the click of a finger.
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  Speaker 1: And what have we done with it? Cats, Dogs, ducks
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