What Media Sources Can You Still Trust in 2025? — Transcript

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1. 0:00technology is making it harder than ever
2. 0:02to know what is true and what isn't this
3. 0:04is the most frequently Asked question of
4. 0:06me how do I know who to trust well how
5. 0:09do we navigate it here I want to give
6. 0:12you some simple ways to test information
7. 0:15that I and my research team use every
8. 0:17day we've developed over the years it's
9. 0:19not really brain surgery but I explain
10. 0:22all of these in my new book propaganda
11. 0:24Wars which I think you'll find really
12. 0:26helpful in guarding yourself against
13. 0:28lies heading into this selection but let
14. 0:30me hit just a few of the highlights I
15. 0:32think we're going to hit seven of them
16. 0:34here first thing you have to do is the
17. 0:37liar lier test how do you trust well
18. 0:41when someone in a media Source lies to
19. 0:44you you have to remember that evaluate
20. 0:48them with a higher level of scrutiny
21. 0:50going forward basically they have to
22. 0:53earn your trust back with interest an
23. 0:56apology or a loud correction helps this
24. 1:01now this applies to all sources even if
25. 1:03they're on your side of the political
26. 1:05aisle all of these do the overarching
27. 1:08goal must always be to find the truth
28. 1:12not the thing that we would like to be
29. 1:14true but the truth a good source will be
30. 1:18willing to publish the truth even when
31. 1:20it conflicts with its own ideological
32. 1:23views in 2020 multiple media Outlets
33. 1:26including the New York Times Washington
34. 1:28Post along with President Biden and 51
35. 1:31current and former government officials
36. 1:33all lied knowingly about the
37. 1:36authenticity of the hunter Biden laptop
38. 1:38and of course lying about a story that
39. 1:41major came on top of their previous
40. 1:45giant lie about con about collusion
41. 1:47between Donald Trump and Russia now
42. 1:50those who lied about both
43. 1:53stories I don't trust at all and not
44. 1:57many if any actually apologized and then
45. 2:00worked hard to correct that many of them
46. 2:02are still saying that the next one how
47. 2:05do I trust and who do I trust you take
48. 2:08the what is a woman test let's say you
49. 2:11reading something an expert is talking
50. 2:14about on any topic try to find out what
51. 2:17that expert's position is on an issue
52. 2:19where there is zero doubt about what the
53. 2:22correct answer is now it could be you
54. 2:26know nuclear war is winnable nope but
55. 2:30the big one here and you'll find it
56. 2:32everywhere if they cannot accurately
57. 2:34tell the difference between a man and a
58. 2:37woman then the source is definitely
59. 2:40unreliable like most mainstream media
60. 2:43NBC has been flunking this test for
61. 2:45years but they accidentally undermined
62. 2:47their support of the transgender
63. 2:49ideologies last year with an article
64. 2:51that I love titled inside the online
65. 2:54world of people who think they can
66. 2:56change their race the article argues
67. 2:59that that it is impossible to change
68. 3:01your race but then quotes a transgender
69. 3:04activist who claims that's totally
70. 3:07different from you trying to change your
71. 3:09sex okay not a trustworthy Source the
72. 3:13third is what I call the egg thrwing
73. 3:16gorilla test now this is a um a
74. 3:20reference to clown World um and I
75. 3:23describe clown World we're living in it
76. 3:24but I describe clown world in the first
77. 3:26chapter of the book this is a clown
78. 3:29world scenario that actually happened
79. 3:31when Larry Elder ran for California
80. 3:33Governor in
81. 3:352021 how do I know if this person I can
82. 3:38trust to tell me the truth now Larry
83. 3:40Elder as you know happens to be black he
84. 3:42was attacked relentlessly as being
85. 3:45racist and an LA Times Reporter claimed
86. 3:48Elder has Elder had a a white
87. 3:51supremacist
88. 3:53worldview so a woman even went to one of
89. 3:56Elders rallies wearing a gorilla mask
90. 3:59and then through exit him when a bias is
91. 4:04this obviously
92. 4:06backward the source is
93. 4:09untrustworthy next beware the bias test
94. 4:13when people that publish things publish
95. 4:15things that go against their own
96. 4:18interests then it's more likely to be
97. 4:20true and this
98. 4:23counts uh in credibility for other
99. 4:25stories this is why Michael
100. 4:27shellenberger is such a reliable source
101. 4:30he's a longtime environmentalist and yet
102. 4:32his reporting in recent years on green
103. 4:34energy corruption and failures means
104. 4:36it's more likely that he's telling the
105. 4:38truth same thing I think with RFK uh RFK
106. 4:42he he was an icon of the democratic
107. 4:45party because he said what he said he
108. 4:49saw the Democratic party turn on him and
109. 4:52he said these people are dangerous he
110. 4:54had nothing to gain and everything to
111. 4:58lose think you can trust some of the
112. 5:00things he says now the next one is the
113. 5:03bloodthirsty Tyrant test this is another
114. 5:06simple guideline if someone supports or
115. 5:09calls for violence in any way you should
116. 5:12not trust the information coming for
117. 5:14that from that Source without a lot of
118. 5:16corroborating evidence such as a warped
119. 5:19sense of
120. 5:21morality um that's I think a pretty good
121. 5:24indicator that they might also struggle
122. 5:27with truthtellah
123. 5:29over the last 8 years mainstream media
124. 5:32has almost universally downplayed the
125. 5:34violence and threats from antifa they
126. 5:38almost always quote Mark Bray who wrote
127. 5:40a book about antifa and was the
128. 5:42organizer for Occupy Wall Street and
129. 5:44that movement but if you think your
130. 5:46cause is righteous so righteous it
131. 5:50justifies writing violence burning
132. 5:53cities
133. 5:54down then I don't trust you number six
134. 5:58is really tough that that's the original
135. 6:00Source test uh this one is tough because
136. 6:04it takes patience it takes digging but
137. 6:07whenever possible don't take it
138. 6:11firsthand uh don't take it from like
139. 6:13Camala Harris saying that who said that
140. 6:17well we know it was General Kelly once
141. 6:19we know the original Source we can ask
142. 6:21is that guy trustworthy if you hear
143. 6:24something reported as absolute fact and
144. 6:27is repeated verbatim by multiple Outlets
145. 6:30try to find out where that fact fact
146. 6:33originated we talk about this uh
147. 6:36extensively in the book uh and we give
148. 6:39you a very very solid example of why you
149. 6:43cannot trust something that is
150. 6:45everywhere and quoted exactly if you
151. 6:48don't know the original Source if a
152. 6:51media Outlet doesn't ma mention the
153. 6:53source of that fact that they share
154. 6:55that's a red flag if they do mention the
155. 6:58source try to go to that source and see
156. 7:01if they mention it that that's where
157. 7:03they got the fact that it's the same
158. 7:06thing that everybody is saying this
159. 7:08message of tracing will ALS often lead
160. 7:11you to the original source which will
161. 7:13then help you determine the
162. 7:14trustworthiness of the information