Jon Stewart: We’ve Created a Machine that Makes Radicalization More Efficient

‘It’s that the delivery system is more sophisticated, more robust and more ubiquitous’

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STEWART: "And when the rhetoric gets to a certain point, and the other side has been treated like enemies of the state, well, then it makes sense. My point is only that I don't think that dynamic is different. It's that the delivery system is more sophisticated, more robust, and more ubiquitous. And so the virulence of it kind of helps radicalize in maybe a faster way or a deeper way. I mean, we have algorithms that make sure that if you're starting to lean towards something bad, that you have to go — like, everybody just dips their toe into radicalism, and then the algorithm says, 'Ooh, you like that video. I have got a four-hour manifesto you have got to see.'"

TAPPER: "Right."

STEWART: "Like, it's — we have created a machine that makes that kind of radicalization more efficient."

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