Heilemann: Twitter ‘Isn’t a Real Place,’ It’s a ‘Toxic Cesspool’ Full of Misinformation

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HEILEMANN: "And Twitter, not only its not a real place, but it's become a toxic cesspool filled with nothing — it's not about right, it's not about conservative, just  filled with misinformation, disinformation and conspiracy theories. So I would rather not have the left replicate that if there was — if that's what's required. I think the deeper question that the question's getting at is that, if you look at the data in this election, the amount of reach of all these alternative — I'm talking about the whole podcast space mostly, but also social media, the interviews that Trump did, starting with Rogan, but Theo Von and all these other things he did, incredible reach compared to old mainstream media, right, where — I mean, the number of people that Kamala Harris reached by going to talk To Bret Baier is a tiny fraction of if you look up the — look at the average not just the numbers downloads, but then the social media plays on YouTube and other places that Trump did by hitting all of those mostly bro friendly, male, young — skewing young male podcast platforms. I think the issue is not so much that the left 'needs a platform.' There are a bunch of people on — she went on — Harris went on 'Call her Daddy,' right, 'All the Smoke,' a few of those things. What the left has to — what Democrats have to figure out is the fact that the way to talk to voters who are not our age and the large swelling number of the segment of young voters and middle-age voters, is that they have to start talking to them on platforms that are not '60 Minutes' and Fox News or MSNBC or any of these — I hate to say it — dying legacy media platforms when the way to reach the growing parts of the electorate is through — "

MAHER: "But isn't that another way of saying Twitter is real, the internet is real?"