Scarborough: ‘Twitter & Facebook Setup Their Business Models in a Way that Would Lead to Insurrection Against the U.S.’

‘Facebook’s algorithms were set up to cause this sort of radicalism to explode’

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SCARBOROUGH: "... would not have happened —"
BRZEZINSKI: "Shame on you."
SCARBOROUGH: "-- but for Twitter, but for Facebook."
BRZEZINSKI: "Wow."
SCARBOORUGH: “And you look at amazing — and we're going to talk about it later today. 'New York Times' had a story yesterday talking about people were tweeting about health and tweeting about mindfulness and tweeting about, I don’t know, flowers and music. And then they stumbled onto some of these conspiracy theories. And because Facebook’s algorithms were set up to cause this sort of radicalism to explode, guess what happened? Their likes exploded. The people following them exploded. So -- so you actually had Facebook and Twitter set up their business models in a way that would lead to the insurrection --"
BRZEZINSKI: "Created Frankenstein." [crosstalk]
SCARBOROUGH: "-- against the United States of America. It is on them predominantly.”

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