Chuck Todd Blames ‘Big Tech and Algorithms’ for Public’s Mistrust of Media
“What you have now, I would argue, is essentially the left doesn’t trust the media now, and the right doesn’t trust the media”
Trust in the mainstream media has never been lower and Chuck Todd, the former host of Meet the Press, thinks he knows why. During a recent appearance on Newsmax, Todd listed a handful of contributing factors before finally laying the blame on ‘big tech and algorithms.’
That’s not actually the reason, and I would venture a bet that Todd knows this.
People don’t trust the media because over the last several years, they have let the mask slip too many times with Trump, Russiagate, Covid, trans issues, and on and on.
I will give Todd credit for offering a serious answer when asked what he thinks Trump has gotten right in his second term. He cites the closed southern border and the progress Trump is making in the Middle East. On the media, Todd’s comments are delusional.
From Newsmax:
The sharp decline in trust in the news media reflects a wider collapse of confidence in American institutions, in that journalists can be only as reliable as the sources they are given, Chuck Todd, the former “Meet the Press” moderator and host of “The Chuck ToddCast,” told Newsmax on Saturday.
“One of the reasons I think trust in media has fallen to so, so low is remember what the media is,” Todd said on Newsmax’s “America Right Now.” “It’s a reflection of ‘I always say I’m as good as the sources I have, not necessarily the sources I want at times.'”…
“We may be reporting what the ‘experts’ tell us,” he said. “But if the public doesn’t trust those experts, and then we in the media are quoting those experts, they don’t trust us.”
He said distrust now runs across ideological lines.
“What you have now, I would argue, is essentially the left doesn’t trust the media now, and the right doesn’t trust the media,” Todd said.
Todd also pointed to the modern information ecosystem, especially technology platforms and recommendation systems, as a driver of polarization and a barrier to rebuilding common sets of facts.
“I put the blame on big tech and algorithms that sort of, I think, make it too easy for too many people to live in a bubble, a filter bubble,” he said.
Here’s the clip:
Chuck Todd blames Americans’ cratering trust in the media on “lack of reliable political leadership” and “big tech algorithms."
It could never be the relentless stream of lies and hoaxes perpetrated on Americans by people *like Chuck.*
Truly amazing stuff. pic.twitter.com/ivAqCQigPG
— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) December 21, 2025
I recommend watching the whole segment:
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He sounds like the little kid saying that the dog ate his homework.
I remember when CAIR crashed the Society of Professional Journalists list server. That was years before 9-11. SPJ actively ran interference for them. That cemented distrust.
“But if the public doesn’t trust those experts, and then we in the media are quoting those experts, they don’t trust us.”
Well, yeah, those “experts” disqualified themselves by blatantly lying to us during Covid. A lot of us knew they had been doing it for a long time, but it became something so obvious during Covid only the delusional could maintain the illusion.
But, let’s be honest. They lost the left because a few leftists (i.e., Weiss) are trying to bring back some measure of actual journalism, and the delusional ones see the facade of their lies crumbing.
Don’t live in lies, and life is much easier to get through.
Oh heck, I screwed up the end tag.
Grinchy software. Grinchy keyboard.
“before finally laying the blame on ‘big tech and algorithms.’”
Hmmm,
Are you sure, Chuck? I would have thought your reason would have been,
-climate change
-Donald Trump
-the Constitution and how it holds Democrats back from total control
-Christianity
-arithmetic and how hard it is to learn
Maybe he can borrow CNN’s.
Apparently there are no mirrors in Mr. Todd’s home (If I were as dirt ugly as he I would eschew my reflection as well) because if you’re looking for a single person more responsible for the abysmal state of journalism today, you’d be hard pressed to find a better example than Chuck Todd. I wouldn’t believe him if he told me water was wet.
As to his utterly stupid comment about algorithms polarizing public opinion, that’s just sour grapes that we no longer sit on the sofa at 6:30 pm each night to be lied to by the big three networks anymore. I can read from a plethora of first hand sources from around the world before Chuck here can get his pants on to fabricate some story that reflects well on his friends.
Screw him.
The Big Three had an algorithm. It was implemented using meatware.
Exactly.
Chuck Toad.
The vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crat propagandists, fabulists and narcissists are perennially blaming everyone under the Sun for their own mendacity, deceit and dishonesty, while refusing to accept responsibility for their willful and brazen distortions, omissions, prevarications and lies.
The truth is that media lost half their customers with bald face lies. now they are going broke.
Blather didn’t work for Kamala, so why continue?
Nor for Dan Blather.
Dan Blather…lol!
Throw other Leftists under the Bus why don’t you?
Chuck who?
Chuck should be repurposed s a wheel chick for a semi.
I think you meant chock? LOL
They prefer to be called “lot lizards.”
Hey Chuck! Your profession’s reputation has been garbage for a lot longer than big tech has been around…
viz:
“The American press is a shame and a reproach to a civilized people. When a man is too lazy to work and too cowardly to steal, he becomes an editor and manufactures public opinion.”
― Gen. William T. Sherman
Except that it got better after that, and then got worse again. There was a period when the news industry actually aspired to standards, even if it never actually achieved them.
More like “publicly pretended to adhere to standards.”
Or maybe the rise of alternative media has transformed how news/info is delivered and consumed, eliminating the ideological logjam/gate keeping the corporate/legacy media employed to push their partisan, ideological, politically motivated, agenda driven narratives.
We once used to have vibrant local media all across the country that did much of the same function. T
Well, it’s true that the algorithms are crap, especially YT’s algos. They show me all sorts of garbage that I have zero interest in, nor have I ever given indication (by clicking, etc) that I would be inclined to watch it. Watch just one video on a topic out of mild curiosity, and your feed will be infested with that channel/topic for weeks to come. Stuff that you’re actually interested in gets buried, sometimes under video after video that is months or even years old. The YT algorithm is a pathetic hot mess.
Don’t forget the current fad of using AI and actors to create utter fiction. The YouTube channel with multiple lengthy videos of Elon Musk speaking about his conversion to Christianity has been removed. This one is still there:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/walter-briggs-atheist-baptism/
I wonder if there are any interesting AI deep fakes of Chuck Todd.
I watched one short about a chess problem. Now YT thinks I’m deeply interested in chess.
Todd had his say for the past couple decades and never once did he question Google’s search engine algorithms or Facebook’s or Twitter’s censorship regime – until Musk snatched old twitter from underfoot.
But now he’s a Truth Teller and layin’ it bare for the People. And NewsMax gives this guy a platform to spew his disinformation? Whatever’s.
F. Chuck has his own Truth. I’m sure it’s purely coincidental that it is completely self-serving.
“journalists can be only as reliable as the sources they are given”
According to Chuck, media isn’t really a source of information — other people provide information to media and they just parrot it.
If so, why the hell do we need the media?
Other “media” — the “new media” online — doesn’t seem to have any problem printing the TRUTH when you in the mainstream are screwing the pooch. They seem to have better sources. Wonder where they found them?
Gee, if only there were a way for a journalist to be… I dunno… INVESTIGATIVE… as to who is telling them the truth and who isn’t. Wouldn’t that be something? Then they wouldn’t be 100% dependent on whoever chooses to “give themselves” to them as a source.
But that’s just crazy talk.
What you’re speaking of is the difference between going to Tony Fauci or Robert Malone for information about mRNA vaccines.
Public distrust in the media – particularly legacy media – couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the documentable fact that big media has devolved into being nothing more than the mouthpiece of the Democrats and the radical left.
Good thing you explained it. I thought it was because you lied and carried the water for the left.
In part he’s right that tech has played a role in the fact that so many people no longer trust his industry. It’s not that the industry has become less reliable, but that tech has made more people aware of how unreliable it always was. Cronkite was lying to people long before tech, but people believed him because there was no tech to tell them the truth. Now there is.
Newton’s 17yj law of thermodynamics: At a critical junction, the technology will fail (in more ways than one).
In any enterprise, if you lack integrity, you will engender mistrust as surely as water runs downhill.
Chuck Todd continues to demonstrate his IQ is dropping exponentially as he ages.
@Chuck Todd … we don’t trust you because our eyes, ears and experiences tell us the truth …
You will not be given a second chance.
Chuck Todd discounted the obvious reason: the history of lies and deceptions perpetrated by legacy media.
Eff Chuck Todd.
And what happened to David Rodham Gergen?
Big Tech and algorithms? What rubbish!
My father became distrustful of (what was to become) the MSM when it participated in the cover-up of the Kennedy assassination.
I was about 15 when I heard Dan Rather’s report on our “defeat” in the Tet Offensive, blaming Gen. Westmorland for a coverup (was that on 60 Minutes?). I knew the stats he bandied about didn’t support his narrative. Never trusted Rather after that, and that mistrust eventually spread to others. (When Peter Jennings was anchor as ABC, I used to tell people I watched ABC’s evening news because “if I’m going to be lied to, I’d rather be lied to by a Canadian than a fellow American.” So, no. Big Tech and algorithms didn’t lead me to distrust the MSM.)
I’m sure my father and I weren’t the only people who lost their trust in the MSM long before the appearance of “Big Tech and algorithms.”
Big Tech has nothing to do with it. It’s the commie garbage coming out of your mouth and others in the media like you. The media is one of this country’s biggest enemies.