Luke Russert talks politics, media at Florida Association of Professional Lobbyists annual conference

The rise of social media has fundamentally changed politics. And that shift has created a system that “rewards loud voices not always backed up by facts,” said Luke Russert, a former NBC News correspondent. “We live in a hyper-connected world,” he said. “It has pushed the media to gin up content to feed the beast. Something in that past that wouldn’t have been front-page news … is front and center. That has enabled actors to come on to the scene…