00:02:04.140Oh, you hate election deniers so much, Mark Elias.
00:02:07.900Well, what were you trying to do in Pennsylvania?
00:02:11.000Yeah, maybe when we, I don't know, audit and investigate the 2020 election, we'll throw in your, and I'll use the word President Trump does,
00:02:18.100skullduggery of what you did out in the great state of Pennsylvania to try to overturn that Senate race,
00:02:23.940but to no avail, because this audience and this show is on to you.
00:02:29.680But we're also on to you in all the ways that you're trying to subvert the MAGA agenda.
00:16:29.560You're back in the War Room where we are still joined by Dr. Darren J. Beattie.
00:16:35.240Darren, I would love for you to explain to the audience a little bit about Jessica Brandt, someone who uses the words disinformation way too much.
00:16:48.820And again, this is an extension of, if not the Marvel Universe, the Color Revolution Universe.
00:16:55.720You know, the whole story of this Color Revolution segment are these Atlanticists, these people obsessed with Russia.
00:17:04.940The whole censorship predicate disinformation comes out of this intelligence world dimension that's oriented toward Russia.
00:17:15.740And a whole cottage industry of people who are using this term as a censorship pretext, created NGOs, created really an entire industry based on censoring American speech under the guise of some dubious foreign policy agenda with respect to Russia.
00:17:39.980For those familiar with that general context, this Jessica Brandt will not be an exception, unfortunately.
00:17:52.180She currently runs what is called the Foreign Malign Influence Center under the DNI, the Director of National Intelligence, which will soon, we hope, be run by Tulsi Gabbard.
00:18:06.920Now, this foreign influence group basically replicates the function of other infamous organizations like the Global Engagement Center, which we've reported on extensively.
00:18:20.220The great Mike Benz has talked about it.
00:18:57.040For daring to suggest that Russia didn't blow up a critical piece of its own infrastructure, their disinformation agents of the Kremlin.
00:19:08.400This is the tier of individual that's now running the whole foreign influence office at the DNI.
00:19:16.460Some other examples, again, repeated pattern, attacking Tucker Carlson, attacking Charlie Kirk, obsession with Russia and linking Russia's interests to legitimate free speech actions of American citizens who dared to adopt a heterodox line with respect to the regime's talking points.
00:19:43.200But what's interesting is she bills herself as this, like, AI expert or emerging AI technologies things.
00:19:51.560She has no history of involvement with AI or really technology.
00:19:56.480And the funny thing is, if you trace her reports, they're all this misinformation slop dating back to, like, 2020.
00:20:07.520But then before 2020, there's nothing about technology whatsoever.
00:20:12.280However, it's all about chastising Trump for the so-called travel ban.
00:20:19.680So her obsession was promoting immigration in the United States, chastising Trump for the travel ban, and, of course, a sprinkling of anti-Brexit stuff.
00:20:31.580And then all of a sudden, in 2020, when the disinformation, this is the apogee of the disinformation scam, when that was real hot, guess what?
00:20:54.480So she goes to all of his conferences, and overnight, she becomes an AI expert.
00:21:01.440I don't even know if she knows how to boot up a computer, and she's an AI expert.
00:21:06.220And what that means in practice is, again, all of these poorly written, poorly thought out, truly slop tier reports that effectively say,
00:21:18.200uh-oh, Tucker Carlson says stuff we don't like, therefore, he's Russian, therefore, we should censor him, and any platform that hosts him.
00:21:29.600And this is the type of person, in fact, in this case, the specific person who's running the Foreign Malign Influence Center under the DNI,
00:21:40.840which formally sits on top of the entire intelligence community.
00:21:44.980It's wild to me that Brookings still retains its tax-exempt status.
00:21:50.900I think that's something we should go after, too, just putting that as a little aside.
00:21:56.580But linking that to kind of what you're saying, you're talking about these patterns, not just recognizing them here domestically, but internationally, too, right?
00:22:04.380There's sort of this outsourcing of just narrative building with the idea that American alternative media, you know, people like Charlie Kirk, Joe Rogan, they need to be censored, right?
00:22:16.120They're disinformation threats, because apparently, if you say, you know, in flood responses in North Carolina, if they're not doing a good job, that's apparently spreading disinformation.
00:22:26.100Maybe they're actually just, I don't know, doing a bad job.
00:22:28.620But the Australian Broadcasting Corporation boss went on sort of a, shall we call it a Jim Vandehii-tier, unhinged speech about the media going after Joe Rogan, disinformation more broadly.
00:22:42.680Your thoughts on what that sort of signals?
00:22:44.620I mean, what a decline of the Australian population, or maybe the Australians just deserve better.
00:22:51.980You know, when I think of Australians, I think of those Foster's beer commercials.
00:22:56.760And this is a huge step down from that.
00:22:59.300Here you have, nominally, the head of the entire Australian government media, what's equivalent to what used to be called in the United States the Broadcasting Board of Governors, our sort of propaganda arm to not, you know, they call it global public affairs now.
00:23:16.940But here you have this guy who is asked about Joe Rogan and goes on to this extended rant saying how it's so horrific that Americans are entertained by this guy and, you know, just really amazing stuff coming from someone who represents the media in Australia.
00:23:37.180And again, I think this is a great example of this general dynamic, which I think is a critical, maybe the most important dynamic going on now, is that this oppositional identity, including this kind of orientation towards censorship, the whole apparatus that was built, is now kind of licking its wounds domestically in the United States because of Trump, because of Elon and so forth.
00:24:01.780But it's almost redoubling its intensity and its commitment in other areas of the Anglosphere.
00:24:10.060And it seems like this is where it's hibernating, but not in a dormant state, in a very active state, just not so much what we saw domestically here.
00:24:18.980And so I think these are real indications that this could be a major issue going forward and develop further in this troubling direction.
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00:25:31.360In War Room Posse, we got a PAC show coming up for you. I think we're going to be joined by FTC Commissioner, maybe FTC Chair, Andrew Ferguson, Dr. Naomi Wolf.
00:25:44.040Kind of springboarding off of everything that we've just gone over with Darren.
00:25:47.460The idea that because they lost here so overwhelmingly, they have to do what they always do, which is outsource, not the manufacturing this time.
00:25:56.720But I guess it's the manufacturing of their fake and BS narratives.
00:26:00.840The idea that what, I don't know, the strapline of this show, the idea that COVID originated in a lab, that the COVID vaccines don't work, that are dangerous.
00:26:10.280That, I don't know, populist economics prevail over this weird neoliberal order that melts down if, I don't know, you want to institute tariffs.
00:26:18.320That all of that is disinformation. So what do they have to do?
00:26:22.540Well, I guess because they lost and they can't use CISA or DHS or any of, you know, pick your poison.
00:26:29.480Now they're going to use weird money, dark money sources coming from, you know, take your pick.
00:26:34.560I'm sure all roads will lead back, whether it's the George Soros type, Mark Zuckerberg, people who hate this country.
00:26:40.500They're going to outsource it overseas, whether it's the Center for Countering Digital Hate, the Global Disinformation Index, right?
00:26:47.000They already have this foreign apparatus set up and we know they only deal in projection.
00:26:52.660So when they say that we're the ones who are guilty of foreign collusion and foreign manipulation of algorithms and all that.
00:26:58.980No, no, no. The only reason that you would even know what that is in the same way that Anthony Fauci would be an expert in the origins of COVID is because you're responsible for it because you do it yourself.
00:27:10.280I think Anthony Fauci is not going to have that hot of a 2025 or 2026, shall we say.
00:27:16.740Dr. Naomi Wolf will be joining us to go through all of that and so much more.
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00:27:36.760If we yank all the big pharma ads off of MSNBC, frankly, their profits are going to plummet even more.
00:27:43.760I don't even want to know what those margins are, let alone if you take away their crutch, that is Pfizer.
00:27:50.740Though I'd love to see how their programming changes.
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00:27:56.000I think COVID vaccines will probably make it a little hard to tell the truth.
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00:29:23.900You're back in the war room where I am honored to be joined by Andrew Ferguson, one of two Republican commissioners over at the Federal Trade Commission,
00:29:43.640which I think before we get into this interview, it's sort of a testament to how I think robust and vast these censorship efforts have become,
00:29:52.040that we're talking to someone from the FTC who I know has done shows with Mike Benz.
00:29:56.580He's definitely on our side of the football on fighting the good fight, really the, I think, existential fight, our ability to, I don't know,
00:30:02.920even air shows like War Room despite their best efforts to pull us, yank us from YouTube and Spotify.
00:30:11.760But Andrew has been sort of leading the charge over there on how to push back against these censorship efforts.
00:30:16.960Andrew, we were just talking the last two blocks with Darren, how despite them losing in 2024,
00:30:24.620they're obviously not going to give up on their censorship efforts, right?
00:30:27.560They're sort of allocating their loss.
00:30:29.900Oh, it was a result of misinformation, disinformation, laying the pretext, in my opinion,
00:30:33.900to sort of crack down on dangerous disinformation, health, electoral or otherwise.
00:30:39.440So I'm just curious your thoughts on, you know, how likely they'll be able to mount that offensive
00:30:44.160and more importantly, what either you and your FTC capacity or just more broadly, the Trump admin can do to fight back.
00:30:51.360Yeah, well, thanks. Thanks for having me.
00:30:53.660So I think I divide the censorship problem into two buckets.
00:30:56.960We've got one where we have like purely private censorship, where I think there's two kinds.
00:31:02.920You could have decisions being made by sort of the platforms themselves or potentially in tandem with each other,
00:31:09.840where the goal is to suppress, you know, disfavored speech.
00:31:13.620The word we always hear is disinformation.
00:31:15.660That's the like classic way that this is said.
00:31:17.820That's just Orwellian newspeak for ideas that Silicon Valley and progressives don't like.
00:31:22.140The second version of the private one that I think is most interesting that Brendan Carr,
00:31:27.580the new chair of the FCC, has talked a lot about is the risk of potential advertising cartels.
00:31:34.400So generally under our antitrust laws, private companies can sort of decide what they'd like to do with their own resources.
00:31:40.900But one of the most important things the antitrust laws forbid is people getting in a room and agreeing we're not going to compete.
00:31:48.720And, you know, if there are a bunch of powerful advertisers getting in a room together and saying,
00:31:55.680hey, let's all agree not to advertise on this platform because we don't like that they have free speech on that platform,
00:32:01.780or let's agree not to advertise about this podcast or this, you know, online show,
00:32:07.920that can potentially violate the antitrust laws because the antitrust laws are designed to make sure that all of us get to participate in markets freely and fairly
00:32:16.700and that there isn't a bunch of backdoor dealing among competitors to suppress people or ideas.
00:32:23.100And so, you know, at the FTC, that's one of the concerns that I really hope that the new Trump FTC is going to look into
00:32:31.920and that I've been calling for it to look into, which is if we've got agreements among the platforms to suppress ideas or speech,
00:32:40.160we have to investigate those for potential antitrust violations.
00:32:43.960And if we have advertiser cartels where advertisers are agreeing we're not going to advertise on this show, on this platform,
00:32:51.780those also potentially violate the antitrust laws.
00:32:54.380Group boycotts are illegal under the antitrust laws, and I think they cry out for antitrust scrutiny.
00:32:59.940And then I think we have a second censorship problem,
00:33:02.820and it's super important that President Trump won this election because it's the kind of thing that he and his new government can address directly.
00:33:11.080And we saw this during COVID especially, but where the platforms would collaborate, collude, however you want to call it,
00:33:19.800with government officials at the CDC, the Surgeon General's Office, the State Department, the FBI, and CISA,
00:33:26.320where the government would call over to the platforms and say, hey, we don't like this thing being said about the vaccines.
00:33:33.420We don't like this thing being said about COVID origins, you know, labs and the like.
00:33:38.820We don't like this sort of discussion about what happened in the 2020 presidential election.
00:33:43.540We don't like people talking about the Hunter Biden laptop.
00:33:47.360And the platforms would say, okay, got it, we'll take it down, no problem.
00:33:51.660Some states sued the government back in 2021 and said, hey, or 2022 and said, hey,
00:33:58.980the government is coercing the platforms to take down speech that they don't like.
00:34:05.800And this wound its way up through the courts.
00:34:08.320Louisiana, Missouri got big wins in the lower courts, big injunctions where courts were saying,
00:34:13.260you, the government, can't coerce these platforms to take down speech you don't like.
00:34:17.480We have this little thing called the First Amendment.
00:34:19.440And the main thing the First Amendment does is protect the right of every American to speak his or her mind
00:34:24.560without the government interfering in that speech.