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Well, I've added some members to my personal disinformation board. I told you yesterday that I've created my own disinformation board. These are the people you should look to to find out what's true and what isn't. Now importantly, in order to be a member of my disinformation board, you don't have to apply and you can't turn it down because you're on the board if I say you're on the board. And that's the end of the story.

So the people I put on the board are not the people I agree with. That's not the point. So you're going to see some people on this that you'll say, "What? Why is that person on the disinformation board when I don't agree with anything they ever say?" And the answer is this: there are people who can violate the narrative and have a track record of doing so.

I'm going to give you my list of people who are already on there, and I'll tell you who I added today based on user comments and just thinking about it more. So Glenn Greenwald, Bari Weiss, Bill Maher, Andrew Sullivan, Alex Berenson, Mike Cernovich, Matt Taibbi, Tulsi Gabbard, Ilhan Omar — we'll talk about that one — Alan Dershowitz, Michael Shellenberger. And the ones I added today were Ian Bremmer, Bret Weinstein, Eric Weinstein, Dave Rubin, and Dr. Drew. Dr. Drew I meant to have on the original list. I just forgot. So correcting the list as we go.

And I think this is a pretty strong list because everybody on this list has a very clear background of violating their own narrative, meaning the narrative on their team. So let's talk about Ilhan Omar. Glenn Greenwald is the first one that pointed this out to me. I wasn't aware of this, but on several notable occasions she has gone against the Democrat narrative. I think free speech was one of them. And while there are plenty of things she's going to say that I don't agree with, she's one of the people you want to look to because anytime somebody violates the narrative, that's more useful.

Did I not add Jonathan Turley? What the hell is wrong with me? I've had his name here to add about five times. Yeah, Jonathan Turley. I'll add him for the next time. Thank you. Great suggestion.

So remember this is not about agreeing with them. It's only people who can violate the narrative and have demonstrated quality thinking. That's it. So I'm not saying that these will tell you the truth. You get that, right? So the purpose of the disinformation board, my personal one, is not that they're always right and they're not fact checkers. They're like a red flag. If there's something happening, if there's not a single person on this list who questions a story in the news, a specific story, it's probably true. If you see three or four people on this list — and that's not many out of the whole list — if three or four people on the list say, "No, you're forgetting this or you're leaving out this or you got it wrong," I would take that really seriously. Because this is the list of people who, if they tell you a fact is wrong, I'm going to listen to that.

Now the people who are silent on it might just not have enough information about it, so I wouldn't look at the percentage of people. I would just see who is saying it's fake and are they violating the narrative.

All right. I'm loving the fact that there seems to be some kind of organic movement to improve the fake news situation. So I'm doing it right now. So this disinformation board for myself, I'm really just trying something. I'm just throwing out an idea. It didn't cost anything, just some tweets. If it helps you because you start following these people and it makes you better informed, then that's great. You see, just a small little thing that I can do from my position. And I feel like lots of people are trying to do the same thing. There's a whole bunch of people who are thinking, "Well, what could I do? Like what do I do?"

Let me answer this question I'm seeing on the Locals platform. Somebody's asking why I didn't add Naval Ravikant to my list. He would be the most quality thinker maybe that I know, period. But he also doesn't get into politics. So he's very consistent about staying out of politics. You know, he'll talk about free speech but that's barely political. So I wanted people who actually deal with the stuff that is the subject of fake news most often.

All right. So lots of people doing stuff. Let me give you some more examples. Bill Maher, of course. I would like to wake up someday on a Saturday and see that Bill Maher is not trending, which has n

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othing to do with Bill Maher. It's just that the reason he trends is that he's calling out his own team. And you know, until he runs out of material to insult his own team. And by the way he insults both teams, so he's not firing it only at his own team. And that's why he's on my list, because he goes after both sides. But you see Bill Maher essentially using his position to try to make things be…

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