Derek Thompson

We have seen the deterioration of support for Israel in the United States

I would say it correlates almost 100% with the geometric rise of social media.

And that by itself is not what caused it.

And I don't believe in censoring them or anything.

But I'll tell you what happened.

We have several countries that basically manipulated social media with bot farms, with fake addresses,

break the American sympathy to Israel, to break the American-Israeli alliance because they think it's in their interests.

And they do it in a clever way.

It's like you hear a text message.

I'm a red-blooded Texan.

I always supported Israel, but I can't stand what they're doing.

I'm turning against Israel.

And then you trace the address to some basement in Pakistan.

And that's something that has hurt us badly.

While we were fighting the physical military battle on seven battlefields, seven-front war, we were completely exposed on the eighth front, the media war, really the social media war.

Yeah, of course.

Of course he's right.

Maybe we'll explore some disagreements between me and Cal in a few minutes, but on this, I think he's hit it right on the money.

I mean, if you doubt what Cal is saying,

and you use AI, pay attention to your own life.