This week, we talk about the Supreme Court hearing arguments on abortion care, Stormy Daniels, TikTok, and much, much more! Plus, we have a special guest, David Robinson, join us on the show to talk about TikTok.
00:02:21.000We actually have a guest on the show, David Robinson, who is going to be releasing for the first time his exclusive report on TikTok, the interference, and just how bad it is, and the capabilities, for example, of the Communist Chinese government.
00:02:33.000So this is the first time that anyone in the United States is going to be seeing this because of the vote that just passed regarding the TikTok bill.
00:02:40.000Sorry, I mean bill that included 60 billion to Ukraine and tech TikTok on there.
00:02:49.000Hey, look, you can comment if you think he's right.
00:02:53.000They're claiming he's in violation of the gag order, and right away he just went to attacking the judge, the former vice president, everything.
00:03:00.000And I think it's actually a pretty smart approach.
00:03:02.000Either you have to lay low and win in court, or if you think it's really an exercise in futility, then just make it.
00:03:09.000Make it all white noise, where at a certain point people just get exhausted and go, we don't care, okay, Stormy Daniels is going to say some embarrassing stuff, Donald Trump's going to say some... Let's go back to what we used to care about with someone running for president, and we also have an eye on India, because the Indian Prime Minister has been roasting Islamists.
00:03:25.000I don't know if you know what's going on there in India, but it's pretty funny!
00:03:29.000It's pretty funny, and we're looking forward to that segment, because...
00:05:41.000This is a man who actually is a CEO of a malware analysis firm called Malcor, and he is going to be breaking down the entire kind of TikTok report here today that he is releasing.
00:06:26.000With face tattoos who is surprised that she can't she's not being hired and she suspects that the reason they gave her and I'll give her credit here that the reason is not the real reason she may have a point guess the real reason
00:06:45.000So I wanted to come on here and talk about something that is really starting to annoy me.
00:06:51.000So I applied for a job at TJ Maxx a few weeks ago and they denied my application.
00:07:47.000I don't feel like that's true, but whatever, I'll leave it at that.
00:07:51.000So, I'm just wondering how, like, teenagers and young adults who haven't had a job before Um, how are they supposed to get employed if these places are only hiring people with experience?
00:08:10.000So, younger people just can't get a job because they haven't worked enough?
00:08:15.000So, like, they'll deny a 16-year-old a job because they don't have enough work experience?
00:08:21.000Like, it just doesn't make any sense to me.
00:08:24.000It almost is as if it makes perfect sense.
00:08:28.000So a 16-year-old gets denied a job for someone with more experience?
00:08:59.000Young people without experience have to work jobs typically that are at the bottom of the barrel so that they can work their way up, but these inevitably end up being jobs that you think are beneath you.
00:09:10.000I guarantee you there are jobs out there for you.
00:09:28.000Are there no consequences for actions like, look, by the way, and I'm not anti-tattoo, but there's a big difference between that and having a few tattoos, and you can't be angry at someone for taking it into consideration, especially if, I don't know, it's a sales job.
00:11:30.000We often get old women in here, old frail ladies and men, they come in here and they're gonna be afraid of you because this T.J.
00:11:37.000Maxx is at a strip mall near a bus stop and you look like a robber.
00:11:42.000So when the elephant man walks in for the interview right after she's like, oh, yeah Well, at least he's gonna get the job now.
00:11:46.000He looks normal compared to this lady It's just always funny to be like don't judge a book by its cover when they focused entirely on the cover It did no work on the pages!
00:13:58.000And there were arguments about whether Trump violated the gag order, which is kind of silly because other people are not gagged and the media clearly is not gagged.
00:14:05.000I mean, if you want to act as though this is a sealed courtroom and you have no information, just tune into CNN for any minute at any point during the day.
00:14:15.000As much as they are obsessed with the Trump trial.
00:14:18.000So, after the court was adjourned yesterday, President Trump stepped out and... Now, typically with a gag order, you wouldn't say anything.
00:15:43.000Every time he appears in front of a camera, turn it into a campaign stop, effectively, because they're trying to hamstring him, make lemonade out of lemons at that point.
00:15:59.000Is that not the purpose of the gag order, is to knowingly that he's gonna, you know, violate it and then put him away for some bullshit charge?
00:16:10.000They want him to go into court with trumped up charges.
00:16:12.000They want him to go in, have to deal with it while the media speculates, all this press, and he says nothing.
00:16:16.000And either, there's kind of two approaches here.
00:16:18.000You either have to keep your head down because you know you've got just, it's a deadlock.
00:16:22.000The win, then kind of go through the process, and then take a victory lap when you win.
00:16:26.000Or, if you know that it's a lost cause, You just, right from the get-go, you don't follow the orders as far as gag orders, you defend yourself, and at a certain point it becomes white noise.
00:16:34.000What they're hoping happens is, you know, Stormy Daniels will take the stand, a bunch of people will take the stand, they'll have some embarrassing personal information, and everyone will fling mud, they hope it damages Donald Trump, but the truth is at that point, it's just all going to be a circus, and people will be exhausted with it.
00:16:48.000Donald Trump is, he's using the play of exhaustion.
00:16:51.000The media wants to exhaust you over this?
00:17:10.000Because we're involved in more foreign conflict than we were really at any point during President Trump's history, at any point that I can think of going back to, I don't know, 2007?
00:17:18.000That's why you don't care at that point.
00:17:21.000You don't care what some washed up, tired ex-porn star has to say about taxes.
00:19:24.000The judge brought him in on the gag order issue because of him going to social media and putting up posts like that.
00:19:29.000So the very first thing he does, I guarantee you, he had this written beforehand and as soon as it went, boonk, gavel down, he's like, boop!
00:19:39.000Like, what are you going to do, judge?
00:19:41.000I've got to imagine that his lawyers, they have to put makeup on the bruises on their foreheads because like, okay, the key is right now, just Lalo, don't say anything.
00:19:49.000He's like a child who just has to rebel and disobey.
00:19:52.000And by the way, I love this about him.
00:20:36.000You may not like his tone, but what he's saying is correct.
00:20:39.000Hit the like button if you think they should make that climate in the courtroom a little more comfortable for the President of the United States.
00:21:04.000We've talked quite a bit on this program, and I've been doing this back to 2009 really, about the incompatibility of Islam and really Western civilization.
00:21:14.000And I'm not just talking about the religion, I'm talking about the political prescription.
00:21:18.000Dr. Ben Carson got into so much trouble because he said actually the Koran and Sharia law are incompatible with the Constitution and they accused him of racism at that point.
00:21:26.000Islam is not the same as every other religion out there in that there is a very clearly defined political prescription and system of government.
00:21:33.000Here's the thing, we're not the only ones to have highlighted this.
00:21:37.000Pretty much every country in the world that doesn't want to live under Islamic rule has
00:21:42.000come to that conclusion, which brings us to this week's Eye on India.
00:22:16.000There's a guy, I think, that occupies, and he's the only person in that region who will be able to vote, and they made sure he had a polling booth there.
00:22:36.000So the Prime Minister, and I want to make sure I have this name right, it's Narendra Modi.
00:22:42.000Indians watching, please let me know how I did with that.
00:22:44.000He has angered Islamists, Muslims in general, again.
00:22:49.000Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has been accused of making Islamophobic comments during an election rally, triggering widespread anger from Muslims and members of the opposition.
00:23:00.000Mr. Modi said if the opposition Congress is voted back into power, it would distribute citizens wealth among what he
00:24:42.000Because you have the benefit now of living in a modern society with technology.
00:24:46.000You've gone through the industrial revolution and now you're actually in, effectively, the digital revolution.
00:24:52.000A lot of these other places in the world, they haven't necessarily gone through that, but no country has pulled themselves into the modern age Through multiculturalism.
00:24:59.000They've had to do it with a clear identity, with a clear set of values, and a unified country, a unified nation.
00:25:06.000And then, they fracture and become a mosaic.
00:25:08.000It only happens with rich, white, affected, liberal countries.
00:25:11.000No country has ever become successful through this idea of multiculturalism.
00:25:14.000That is something that they recognize in India.
00:25:18.000And if you look into the history, you go, oh, okay, this isn't just racism.
00:25:21.000They've lived it, and they are living it.
00:25:23.000So a key fact, uh, here, first key fact, I guess.
00:25:26.000This man, Modi, super popular in India.
00:25:29.000So if you are saying that he is racist, guess what?
00:25:31.000You are saying that 75% of Indians are effectively racist.
00:26:54.000Now, if you don't remember this, in 2008, there was the Mumbai terror attack.
00:26:59.000Hostages were taken, 174 people were killed, over 300 people were injured.
00:27:05.000There's been a long and short history with India, and you look at what's happened there, and I can't get into all of it, but Islam, Hinduism, there's been conflict.
00:27:13.000This is not something that is new to them, and so they say, hold on a second, we need to put this Only Muslim-majority state under control.
00:27:20.000Well, because historically, if they get the power of the majority, they start killing people.
00:30:03.000I know, I'm sorry, but when you look at your platform, when you point to your results, inflation is down, the economy is roaring, no new wars, we added toilets.
00:32:26.000See if you can spot the problem with a modern, civilized society.
00:32:30.000If you don't primarily believe in, for example, violence to those who don't follow your religion.
00:32:36.000If you believe in actual equal rights for men and women.
00:32:40.000No, I'm not talking about privileges, and I'm not talking about Title IX and trans and sports, and I'm not talking about affirmative action.
00:32:45.000I'm talking about a woman having the right to, you know, drive and not be beaten.
00:34:53.000I mean, this happened in the UK, where they had Sharia law courts, like the Sharia courts were instituted in certain areas.
00:34:59.000And I don't know if you remember this, but several years back, and it's still this way, but we don't hear about it as much, there were no Go Zones.
00:35:04.000I don't know of any other group of people that comes in and says, we're not going to abide by your nation's laws, we want to set up our own courts to handle this stuff.
00:35:51.000So you simply decide not to live there.
00:35:53.000The best you can hope for is internationally to contain the violence so that it doesn't spread to other countries.
00:35:58.000However, in other countries that are even remotely tolerant, what happens whenever the Islamic population grows?
00:36:04.000They say, no, no, we want to start changing the country to our laws.
00:36:07.000Pick any country, any Islamic country, where Islam has had political power, right?
00:36:12.000I'm not talking about American Muslims where obviously they wouldn't be able to affect the laws here in this country and establish Sharia courts.
00:36:17.000Anywhere that there is a Muslim majority rule and they create a government as they see fit, point me to any country in the last century that has had a decade and a half of basic enjoyment of human rights, civility, non-violence.
00:37:59.000The guy came into school, he had an I plain New York shirt, and I got in deep trouble because I read him the riot act and we almost came to fisticuffs.
00:38:08.000This was in Greenfield Park outside of Montreal.
00:38:11.000Now in the UK, 46% of UK Muslims are Pro-Hamas.
00:38:34.000But if they do exist, they should be single-digit numbers and we should be able to point to them like the Westboro Baptists and say, they don't represent us.
00:39:59.000They want the luxuries afforded to them by a- an enlightened society, um, without actually living in it, and then they want to change- Tearing it down.
00:40:36.000I wouldn't even take the 60 who supported Hamas.
00:40:39.000Hey, feminists, if 46% of men supported beating women, would that be a problem?
00:40:44.000If 46% of Trump voters supported actually bombing Congress, would that be a problem?
00:40:53.000If 46% supported in Charlottesville, as opposed to saying not neo-Nazis, not white supremacists, running someone over with a Dodge Challenger, would that be a problem?
00:41:02.000Because all of those things pale in comparison to the October 7 attacks.
00:41:08.000Let alone 46% in the UK who just support Hamas in general.
00:41:11.000To me, what's so shocking about that, is that poll was framed in a way to give you an out Like, hey, do you... I bet you the poll taker thought, you know what, I'm gonna carry the water here.
00:41:23.000Do you just support everything about Hamas?
00:42:40.000Multiculturalism is a luxury that is only afforded to those In the United States, in the UK, from nations that have propelled themselves into the modern era
00:43:09.000Multiculturalism cannot create a great nation.
00:43:12.000It's not a luxury that a place like India can afford right now when most of their country lives in abject poverty to the point where an election, a campaigning issue is more toilets.
00:43:22.000They're not concerned about your pride parade and multiculturalism.
00:43:25.000So people of India, at least 75% of you, we hear you.
00:43:33.000Do not listen to the legacy media outlets who are trying to browbeat you for your concern of your own personal safety and the future of your family.
00:44:18.000And this man, though, David Robinson, is going to be Providing for the first time today, an exclusive look at this in-depth report of TikTok and how they are using your data and the risk that they actually pose.
00:44:29.000Now, to be clear, no one here wants TikTok, at least as far as I, to be banned.
00:46:02.000Our allies around the world have been watching Congress for the last six months and wondering the same thing.
00:46:08.000When it matters most, will America summon the strength to come together, overcome the centrifugal pull of partisanship, and meet the magnitude of this moment?
00:46:20.000Tonight, under the watchful eye of history, the Senate answers this question with a thunderous and resounding yes.
00:46:51.000It was packaged with foreign aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan.
00:46:55.000That bill now heads to President Biden's desk, and he's expected to sign it tomorrow.
00:47:01.000There should be some kind of a law in the books that just says, well, you can't just put in one thing $60 billion to Ukraine and $21 billion, whatever it is, to Israel and Gaza collectively.
00:47:14.000I believe the number, I guess it was Israel's $15 billion and another $9 billion to Gaza.
00:47:18.000You can't just put that in and then kind of as a footnote, you know, the TikTok issue.
00:47:38.000They do it because they try and sandwich something in between something that is actually popular and has support, and then put something else in that would not have the majority of support.
00:47:46.000So to give you an idea, again, we talked about this before.
00:47:49.000The parent company of TikTok is ByteDance, and they're going to have nine months to sell the company to some kind of United States-based company, or one that actually follows these protocols, parameters that have been laid out, or they're just going to be banned in the U.S.
00:51:29.000We've been writing reports about TikTok for the last three to four years.
00:51:35.0002022 was our major report that basically got pushed into the Australian media and then globally.
00:51:41.000A lot of Organizations, governments, researchers have read that report, which really brought to light the data collection issues, privacy issues, how TikTok basically, in their source code, acts.
00:51:58.000Talk us through this new 2024 report that people watching right now have not seen.
00:52:02.000This is now going to be available to the world.
00:52:04.000We've made it available at loudearthcrowder.com, and of course, full credit, I recommend people go and check you guys out, the work you're doing.
00:52:11.000Walk us through it, and how does it compare to the other reports?
00:52:25.000So we have a... MalCore is basically a malware analysis platform where we can put any phone app into it, and it spits out all the permissions, all the code severity warnings, all the things that are in the app and how it acts, basically.
00:52:41.000Platform will give you a score based on the software development kits that is loaded in the app, the permissions the app requires from the phone, whether it's given or not, and also the code severity warnings.
00:52:53.000So we just objectively score all the social media companies, all the big ones and the little ones.
00:53:14.000In 2024, to be honest, they've done a lot of great work trying to reduce their permissions, but they unfortunately still came out with the highest score.
00:53:23.000A score of 60, double the industry average.
00:53:27.000What makes TikTok, because we see that with the other apps, what makes TikTok More dangerous or more of a concern than the other apps out there.
00:53:34.000Because you hear the argument from other people just saying, well, you know, this is just censorship because all of them do this.
00:53:48.000So the biggest thing that happened in our 2022 report that basically really slammed the door was device mapping.
00:53:55.000So in 2022, when we analyzed the app, TikTok could map a device.
00:53:59.000So it basically was collecting all the running apps.
00:54:03.000All the apps installed on your device.
00:54:05.000So when you can basically pull all the contacts, access to calendar, and continually try to get access to the contacts when you had the app installed, and then it was able to map the phone.
00:54:16.000It's basically like a phone imaging app on your device.
00:54:19.000So that was the 2022 report that slammed the door.
00:54:23.000And then in 2023, they had a significant number of software development kits compared to industry.
00:54:29.000And so this is a third party company that has access to the metadata or the advertising data.
00:54:37.000So software development kits is like an install plugin, basically, that you can have it.
00:54:43.000If you make a random app and you can put Google and Facebook software development kits into your app, Facebook can actually get some of that advertising data.
00:56:04.000They provide high-quality cat videos, and also, you know, there's potential communist interference.
00:56:12.000That begs the question, why would China care about the data of an 18-25 year old, that's their key demo, TikToker?
00:56:19.000Why would they want to scan their entire phone?
00:56:25.000Friends in the intelligence community have basically said to me that China is the biggest purchaser of commercial data in America.
00:56:34.000So they are buying and collecting a significant number en masse of data of Americans.
00:56:40.000We saw this in a project we did called the ZenY DataLeak, an entire Chinese company dedicated to tracking Americans and pulling as much social data as they can off them.
00:56:51.000They are a huge data collector from our perspective.
00:56:55.000And the reason why they want to collect it is, okay, you're a teenager.
00:57:00.000You don't really care if TikTok has your data or what's going on in your phone,
00:57:05.000but they can pull every single contact.
00:57:07.000So they have basically a social map of every single contact in that phone.
00:57:13.000So if they're collecting every single contact list of every single group of people
00:57:18.000and they can export this data, then you might not be important,
00:57:23.000but Stephen, I'm sure you talk to congressmen all the time.
00:57:46.000They have access to your contacts, and this is terrifying, your phone contacts, and just for people who are missing this, I know your report is available, ByteDance has direct ties to the CCP, right?
00:57:56.000Like, there's a difference between someone in Silicon Valley, though it's a problem, having access to your purchasing preferences, and a company, and this is the reason for this bill right now, directly linked to the CCP, having access to all of your personal contacts.
00:58:10.000People out there may say, oh, we don't really know that they're connected to the CCP.
00:58:48.000Think about, obviously, Eric Swalwell, though he still has a job, I don't know why.
00:58:52.000Right away, I don't just go to algorithms and tech, I go to a foreign party, a foreign government could select who they want to blackmail or apply leverage to if they have all of your personal contact information.
00:59:07.000This actually brings up the ZenY data leak again.
00:59:09.000There's evidence of Chinese companies actively with their entire business model building those types of databases.
00:59:26.000But second, as opposed to just having information to contacts, which is bad enough as it is, do they have access to text messages, any of the content of those text messages that are on your phone, any other data that might be there, emails, things like that?
00:59:55.000What's the relationship between TikTok, and we've heard about this, Telegram, and like you just mentioned this, this sort of Russian FSB?
01:00:03.000Ah, so Ukraine is having a massive argument about whether they should ban Telegram, just like you guys are talking about TikTok.
01:00:10.000But I think you guys are way more successful in banning apps because only India and America really have had this type of debate and successfully pushed legislation through.
01:00:18.000But Telegram is a massive Russian language app.
01:00:26.000He lives in Dubai and he basically says that he basically created VK Contact and says he had to flee Russia because VK Contact was taken over by the Russian security services.
01:00:44.000Ukraine are trying to ban Telegram because they think it's a threat to their population because Pavel originates from Russia and there's a lot of accusations there.
01:00:53.000He says that VK contact was taken from him by the Russian security services and that's why he now lives in Dubai.
01:01:04.000Yeah, wouldn't the counterargument maybe be because Telegram is, you know, encrypted and a lot of people have used it, right, for that reason, that they think it's more secure as opposed to, for example, a court just saying, all right, we're going to grab everything on your phone.
01:01:25.000That maybe Ukraine would want to be banning Telegram because they would want to have more access to people's personal information as opposed to something encrypted.
01:01:33.000Would there be a valid claim for pro-Telegram people to make?
01:01:39.000It's not really the encryption, it's more most of Russian disinformation inside Ukraine occurs over Telegram.
01:01:47.000It's more the information environment domain.
01:01:51.000There's no it's not about the encryption or whether they're collecting data in this sense.
01:01:54.000It's there are huge amounts of influence occurring on populations from Authoritarian regimes.
01:02:03.000And if they can control an app and influence your elections, influence your population, then it's an existential threat during these kind of very pressure situations like an election or a war for Ukraine's perspective.
01:02:15.000So if you control the app, you control the algorithm, you control the disinformation.
01:02:19.000So that's the kind of the essence of it.
01:02:21.000There's no speech argument there from my perspective.
01:02:24.000Well, I would say, you know, I would be concerned if the Ukrainian government is the only one determining, you know, what is disinformation or what is that then we get into what we had with the CDC and COVID a little bit.
01:02:34.000So yeah, I would be I would be concerned.
01:02:37.000I would I would be certainly I'd have to pause.
01:02:40.000If we're just talking about information, well, the way you combat bad information is good information, unless, of course, Ukrainians are not allowed on TikTok outside of Russian propaganda.
01:02:48.000So it's a little different from saying it's a national security threat because private information is going to a foreign entity.
01:02:55.000But I understand the point to be made.
01:02:56.000I did want to ask you a question because I heard a story about this.
01:02:59.000Have you gotten any feedback or direct contact since this bill passed?
01:03:06.000Uh, not since the bill passed, um, as in, like, in the last two days or in the last couple weeks.
01:03:21.000Like, it's a pretty private kind of war between TikTok and me, as it seems, and I can disclose to your audience that members paid by TikTok to write disinformation and crappy reports about my company Was hard copy mailed in the mail to shareholders of mine.
01:03:41.000So people paid on the record by TikTok researchers, hard copy mailing stuff to my shareholders.
01:04:01.000All right, so can you stick around as we go to Mug Club here and take some questions from chat?
01:04:05.000Because a lot of them have some questions for you, because I'm sure you can imagine with this report now being released, they have concerns.
01:04:13.000Again, it's Malcor's 2024 report on TikTok.
01:04:16.000This is the CEO of Malcor, David Robinson.
01:04:19.000David, is there anything before we go to Mug Club where you want to direct people?
01:04:22.000I know we have it up on our website, but if there's anything else?
01:04:25.000Yeah, if you go to blog.malkor.io, the report is there live and you can log into Malkor for free and load up any app you want and have a look.