'Outrageous lying': Former Fox News reporter delivers scathing criticism of right-wing media
Former Fox News reporter Carl Cameron on Thursday appeared on CNN to decry the way that right-wing media have warped millions of people's senses of reality and created a dangerous inflection point for democracy.
While talking with host Anderson Cooper, Cameron said that social media has allowed people to bury themselves in echo chambers, which has made rational debates impossible.
"We're in trouble," he said. "People are going to deeper and deeper silos and hiding away and this is not how a democracy works. This is not how a country functions."
Cameron then pivoted to the way right-wing media stokes constant anger among its viewers by pelting them with misinformation.
"There is a tremendous amount of anger and an outrageous amount of lying on the right," he said. "It's getting perpetuated from all over the world. It's not just the United States. We do have foreign adversaries who are loving what's going on with our country's lack of unity."
Watch the video below.
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