Mark Zuckerberg announces that the company is reversing its censorship policies. This is a huge victory for the left, who have been trying to silence conservative voices on the platform for years. And now, after years of censorship, the CEO of the world's largest social media platform is finally going to change course.
00:00:00.000Well, folks, Donald Trump is not yet president, and the world is changing in dramatic, dramatic ways.
00:00:05.000This morning, Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, which of course is the parent company of Facebook, as well as Instagram, made a huge announcement.
00:00:13.000Facebook, he said, is now going to be reversing its censorship policies.
00:00:27.000Personally, over at The Daily Wire, I was the number one Facebook page of all Facebook pages on the platform in 2020. In 2021, something happened.
00:00:39.000And in 2021, our impressions from my personal page, for example, which was, again, maybe the most prominent page on Facebook, we went from, I'm not kidding you, 1 billion impressions a month.
00:00:51.000We went from that to less than 100 million impressions a month.
00:00:56.00090% reduction in impressions, in reach.
00:00:59.000And that was a deliberate move by Facebook to crush political content on the platform in 2021. And now Mark Zuckerberg is reversing all of that.
00:01:09.000I want to get to what he is doing, what the policies actually look like in a second.
00:01:15.000Because to understand what has been unfolding over at Facebook, you really have to understand more broadly what has been unfolding in America around the issues of free speech.
00:01:27.000They fundamentally changed when Donald Trump won the presidency in 2016. Up until 2016, social media had widely been perceived by the left as a large overall good.
00:01:39.000That social media was a way for people to network with each other, for political content to be distributed to a broader audience.
00:01:45.000In fact, the Obama 2012 campaign had received all sorts of plaudits for its magical use of Facebook in getting people out to vote.
00:01:53.000In 2012. And then Donald Trump won in 2016. And Democrats, looking for an excuse for why Trump had won, decided.
00:02:00.000It couldn't be because Hillary Clinton was an awful candidate.
00:02:03.000It couldn't be because Democrats had become disconnected from the body politic.
00:02:24.000This was all part of the giant Russiagate narrative, which was that the Trump team had been infiltrated by pro-Russian stooges and then had been doing the work of Vladimir Putin.
00:02:34.000And in return, Vladimir Putin had manipulated the American body politic through Facebook memes into electing Donald Trump in 2016. In the form of politics, this took the form of the...
00:02:44.000Mueller investigation and the entire Russiagate nonsense that lasted four years.
00:02:48.000But in the realm of social media and free speech, this turned into an argument for censorship.
00:02:53.000It turned into an argument for shutting down social media's dissemination of dissenting points of views.
00:02:58.000The idea from the left was, if Facebook allowed dissenting points of views to be distributed widely, that might lead to things like Donald Trump being elected and that had to be stopped.
00:03:07.000Now, the left like to hide this behind the rubric of disinformation.
00:03:12.000Remember, they used this word all the time in 2017. Russian disinformation.
00:03:18.000And then they started to merge that with misinformation.
00:03:21.000It turned into misinformation and disinformation.
00:03:24.000Now, those are two very different terms.
00:03:25.000Disinformation would be a foreign power actively intervening with false information in order to thwart the will of the people, for example.
00:03:33.000Misinformation is just a catch-all term for things that you may not like in politics.
00:03:39.000Misinformation, for example, the media said, Was that Joe Biden was senile.
00:03:45.000It was cheap fakes and misinformation.
00:03:46.000So what the media started to do was lump all this together.
00:03:49.000Anything the media didn't like, the legacy media, anything the legacy media didn't like, had to be shut down.
00:03:55.000This is also a business proposition for the legacy media.
00:03:57.000So it was a political proposition because they did not want people like Donald Trump to win.
00:04:02.000But it was also a business proposition because the thing about Facebook...
00:04:07.000And the thing about social media generally is it allowed startup enterprises like The Daily Wire to actually thrive.
00:04:12.000We were able to market ourselves on Facebook.
00:04:14.000We were able to become a prominent and very powerful company because we were able to reach people through mechanisms that the legacy media did not control.
00:04:24.000And so you could see the legacy media and Democrats combine to crack down on social media outlets like Facebook, like Twitter, until Elon bought Twitter, by the way.
00:04:35.000Like all the big social media outlets.
00:04:36.000By 2017, Dianne Feinstein, and of course she was alive, she was a senator from California, she was holding hearings.
00:04:43.000Democrats in the Senate were holding hearings, berating members of the social media hierarchy, and telling them that they needed to crack down on disinformation.
00:04:51.000And if they didn't crack down on disinformation, the government would.
00:04:55.000The pressure campaign from the government began as soon as Donald Trump was elected in 2016. Here was Dianne Feinstein openly threatening social media companies with shutting them down.
00:05:08.000What we're talking about is a major foreign power with the sophistication and ability to involve themselves in a presidential election and sow conflict and discontent all over this country.
00:05:27.000We are not going to go away, gentlemen.
00:07:47.000We can either continue to stand for free expression, understanding its messiness, but believing that the long journey towards greater progress requires confronting ideas that challenge us.
00:07:58.000Or we can decide that the cost is simply too great.
00:08:03.000And I'm here today because I believe...
00:08:07.000That we must continue to stand for free expression.
00:08:13.000He was right in 2019. We praised him on the show for it in 2019. He sounds like Elon Musk today, Zuckerberg, in 2019. And then something happened.
00:08:20.000And the thing that happened was 2020. Donald Trump was up for reelection.
00:08:39.000Things like, for example, the fact that the vaccine did not prevent transmission, which, as it turns out, was true.
00:08:46.000Things like the Wuhan virus theory, that it came from a lab in theory, the lab leak theory.
00:08:52.000That was shut down by social media at the behest of governments.
00:08:57.000All the way up through the election, when the Hunter Biden laptop scandal was deliberately buried by places like Facebook, they shut down the dissemination.
00:09:06.000You remember this happened at Twitter also because this is before Elon had bought Twitter.
00:09:09.000So the social media companies were under serious pressure all through 2020 and they kept exerting more and more pressure in 2020, shutting down particular modes of communication on everything from transgenderism to Black Lives Matter, on everything from immigration to COVID. Well, all of our institutions have been under serious pressure from the left.
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00:11:42.000Kira Zuckerberg in 2022 with Joe Rogan admitting that Facebook took action at the behest of the federal government to shut down dissemination of certain types of information.
00:11:53.000The distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it.
00:12:12.000I don't know off the top of my head, but it's meaningful.
00:12:16.000But basically, a lot of people were still able to share it.
00:12:25.000obviously this is a hyper political issue so depending on what side of the political spectrum you either think we didn't censor it enough or censored it way too much but right but we weren't sort of as black and white about it as as Twitter we just kind of thought hey look if the FBI which I still view as a legitimate institution in this country it's a very professional law enforcement they come to us and tell us that we need to be on guard about something that I want to take that seriously did they specifically say you need to be on guard about that story I
00:12:52.000I know I don't remember if it was that specifically, but it was it basically fit the pattern.
00:12:57.000OK, now later, Zuckerberg would admit that actually there was tremendous pressure in 2020 and also in 2021, and it only ratcheted up in 2021.
00:13:07.000So after January 6th, the left and the media decided they were going to ratchet up the pressure on Facebook even more on social media even more.
00:13:14.000The idea was that Facebook had been responsible for January 6th.
00:13:18.000Again, anytime something happens that the left doesn't like, they blame the mechanism of distribution because what they are after is control of the mechanism of distribution.
00:13:31.000If something goes wrong, you find the thing you want to take over, you blame the people in charge of that thing, and you suggest that you should be in charge.
00:13:39.000By the time that January 6th happened, there were posts nearly every day from people on the left on various social media outlets and at the New York Times lamenting the fact that we had such wide distribution at the Daily Wire.
00:13:52.000And this took the form of members of the Biden White House actively stumping to reduce our traffic on Facebook.
00:14:01.000According to just the news, there were meeting notes from the White House.
00:14:06.000Quote, shortly after taking office in January 2021, President Joe Biden's administration pressured Facebook to stifle the Daily Wire's reach on the platform and boost the reach of legacy media outlets, according to meeting notes recently turned over to Congress.
00:14:18.000Those meeting notes, first reported by Just the News, detailed discussions then-White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty had with Facebook executives in 2021, where the Biden staffer pressured the big tech company to moderate content related to COVID vaccines in order to enforce the administration's policy goals.
00:14:32.000During one meeting on April 14th, 2021, Flaherty asked Facebook about, quote, changing the algorithm to push content from the New York Times and Wall Street Journal over news from the Daily Wire and other polarizing entities.
00:14:42.000Quote, if you were to change the algorithm so that people were more likely to see the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, any authoritative news source over Daily Wire, you wouldn't have a mechanism to check the material impact?
00:14:52.000Flaherty asked Facebook employees in a conversation about changing Americans' attitudes towards COVID. At the time of that meeting, in April 2021, and in the months to follow, The Daily Wire was still the leading publisher on Facebook.
00:15:04.000We had way more likes, way more clicks, way more reaction than The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, everyone.
00:15:09.000That is why the White House was targeting us.
00:15:11.000And basically, in response to that, in response to our success on Facebook, The Daily Wire is a company, our success on Facebook.
00:15:18.000Facebook, under pressure from the White House, decided to completely shift their entire take on political media.
00:15:24.000They decided they were going to shut down the dissemination of political media on Facebook.
00:15:28.000And we could see it in the statistics.
00:15:29.000We had to change our entire business model to adjust for the fact that Facebook had done this again.
00:15:34.000The reach on my personal page dropped by 90 percent, 90, in the middle of 2021 because of all of this.
00:15:41.000And Zuckerberg has admitted publicly that in 2021 they shifted all of their policies at the behest of the Biden administration.
00:15:50.000All of this, by the way, again, designed to benefit legacy media.
00:15:52.000Because if you shut down the alternatives to legacy media, the only thing left is legacy media.
00:15:57.000If you engage in false fact checks of people and entities like the Daily Wire, while ignoring all of the lies that are told by CNN or the New York Times, if you decide that you're going to downgrade all political content, any viral political content on Facebook, what you end up doing is benefiting the consolidated big guys at the expense.
00:16:20.000It is effectively a government-controlled monopoly at that point or an oligopoly.
00:16:25.000Again, in 2024, this is precisely what Zuckerberg recognized.
00:16:31.000Zuckerberg actively sent a letter to the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee, letter dated August 26th, in which Zuckerberg said he regretted not speaking up about the pressure that he felt from the White House.
00:16:47.000He wrote in this letter that his company was, quote, pressured into censoring content and the company would push back if it faced such demands again.
00:16:54.000Quote, in 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams for months to censor certain COVID-19 content, including humor and satire, and expressed a lot of frustration with our teams when we didn't agree.
00:17:05.000I believe the government pressure was wrong.
00:17:07.000I regret we were not more outspoken about it.
00:17:09.000I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today.
00:17:34.000The other way to read this is that Zuckerberg, even when Democrats were in control of Congress in 2019, even then, Zuckerberg was pushing for free speech.
00:17:43.000And it was when they had full control of the government that they were able to cudgel Facebook into doing what it was that they wanted.
00:17:48.000And now that they no longer have control, Facebook can finally let up and allow people to see the content they wanted to see.
00:17:54.000You have to understand, what Facebook did is they made it so that you were automatically downgraded in the political content you viewed.
00:18:01.000If you subscribed, if you followed my page, for example, over at Facebook, which again, was one of the top pages of Facebook, period.
00:18:07.000If you did that, I just disappeared from your feed.
00:18:08.000You may have noticed this, if you're on Facebook at all.
00:18:11.000My show, my content just disappeared from your feed.
00:18:14.000And Facebook said that they had done this to all political content, and that's true.
00:18:17.000They did do it to all the political content across the board because the idea was to nuke the entire sector in order to avoid the implication that they were helping conservatives because conservatives were too successful in the space, particularly daily wire.
00:18:32.000Well, now they're reversing themselves.
00:18:33.000And so Mark Zuckerberg this morning put out about a five-minute video explaining the changes that are happening over at Facebook.
00:18:39.000I want to go through it piece by piece because every piece of this, Hey, everyone.
00:18:58.000I want to talk about something important today because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.
00:19:05.000I started building social media to give people a voice.
00:19:08.000I gave a speech at Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free expression, and I still believe this today.
00:19:15.000But a lot has happened over the last several years.
00:19:17.000There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content.
00:19:22.000Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.
00:19:26.000A lot of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there.
00:20:06.000The recent elections are a cultural tipping point.
00:20:09.000Now, they are also a political tipping point, obviously, and a governmental and regulatory tipping point, very clearly.
00:20:14.000So Metta, as a corporation, is looking and saying, listen, we now have the wherewithal to allow free speech, which is to say that I hope the commitment is real and lasts beyond whatever the administration is right now, that this is an actual long-term commitment to free speech.
00:20:50.000It's because he bought X. The reason that Zuckerberg went from the example of the American success story to evil is because Donald Trump won in 2016. Again, it's all about power for the left.
00:21:00.000And so, with Donald Trump elected, What that says is that now free speech can bloom once again, which, again, should tell you something about where the left is in this country.
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00:22:31.000Also, you know, I've tried everything to improve my sleep.
00:22:34.000Setting stricter bedtimes, putting the phone out of reach to get some downtime from the news cycle, rearranging the bedroom, you know, all those sorts of things.
00:22:40.000But all these changes took constant effort, not a lot of result.
00:23:33.000And focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.
00:23:40.000More specifically, here's what we're going to do.
00:23:43.000First, we're going to get rid of fact-checkers and replace them with community notes, similar to X, starting in the US. After Trump first got elected in 2016, the legacy media wrote non-stop about how misinformation was a threat to democracy.
00:23:59.000We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth.
00:24:04.000But the fact-checkers have just been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created, especially in the U.S. So over the next couple of months, we're going to phase in a more comprehensive community notes system.
00:24:17.000Okay, so that point, again, totally right.
00:24:20.000And we've been yelling this from the rooftops for years.
00:24:23.000The news fact-checking organizations are opinion organizations of the left.
00:24:49.000If Donald Trump said something that was too broad and was generally true, but specifically he made a mistake, then the whole thing was wrapped up as a giant lie.
00:24:58.000That is the way the fact-checkers did their work.
00:24:59.000And this was wrapped into broader conversations about censorship.
00:25:02.000So you had entire organizations like GARM, which we helped dismantle along with Elon Musk and the House Judiciary Committee.
00:25:10.000GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, was a censorship racket.
00:25:14.000It was designed as a quote-unquote fact-checking organization designed to downgrade particular outlets.
00:25:21.000These organizations like NewsGuard, NewsGuard.
00:25:24.000An organization specifically designed to quote-unquote rate news outlets that invariably benefited the left at the expense of the right.
00:25:32.000Those were used by places like Facebook as quote-unquote the fact checkers to determine what deserved to see the light of day and what didn't.
00:25:39.000And Zuckerberg is now acknowledging the reality.
00:25:41.000These fact checkers were totally full of crap.
00:25:48.000And it has determined social media policy, meaning how you actually are able to access information.
00:25:55.000Zuckerberg correctly is looking at the wonderful thing that Elon did on X with Community Notes, and he's actually implementing that over at Facebook.
00:26:01.000So big win for Elon, and yes, big win for Facebook, because Community Notes allow a sort of crowdsourcing approach to what is true and what is false, and allows you to link to the information, and allows people to upvote that.
00:26:12.000That is a much better way of trying to arbitrate truth than simply looking to some sort of Cotty on a hill who's going to dispense justice one fact check at a time.
00:26:28.000Second, we're going to simplify our content policies and get rid of a bunch of restrictions on topics like immigration and gender that are just out of touch with mainstream discourse.
00:26:39.000What started as a movement to be more inclusive has increasingly been used to shut down opinions and shut out people with different ideas, and it's gone too far.
00:27:18.000By radical Muslims into the West is a threat.
00:27:21.000That was something that would get downgraded in the news.
00:27:24.000You know, our coverage since October 7th of radical Muslim terrorism or the war in the Gaza Strip against Hamas, that has been downgraded on nearly every social media platform for simply mentioning the topic because the topic is too controversial.
00:27:38.000We've had to bleep out actual descriptions of like geography in the Middle East because it might be too controversial.
00:27:47.000He's acknowledging the left has tried to shut down conversation on these issues and social media was compliant.
00:27:52.000Social media was complicit in the attempt to shut down discussion of the biggest issues in public life, like immigration and whether boys should be taught that they can be girls and vice versa.
00:28:11.000We're changing how we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms.
00:28:19.000We used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation.
00:28:23.000Now we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations.
00:28:28.000And for lower severity violations, we're going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.
00:28:34.000The problem is that the filters make mistakes, and they take down a lot of content that they shouldn't.
00:28:39.000So by dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms.
00:28:45.000We're also going to tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before taking down content.
00:28:52.000The reality is that this is a trade-off.
00:28:54.000It means we're going to catch less bad stuff, but we'll also reduce the number of innocent people's posts and accounts that we accidentally take down.
00:29:05.000Okay, the point that he is making here, which is that the filters were set in order to exclude particular content.
00:29:12.000This is how social media quote-unquote blamed the algorithm.
00:29:15.000He set the algorithm to remove political content and it removes everything.
00:29:18.000This ended up in a federal lawsuit that went all the way to the Supreme Court in which there was talk about the federal government putting pressure on Facebook in order to restrict the dissemination of information by individuals.
00:29:29.000And the Supreme Court idiotically found that that was not a violation of the First Amendment.
00:29:34.000They didn't even get to the underlying issue.
00:29:35.000They said for standing reasons, this lawsuit wasn't ripe or whatever, but it clearly was a violation of the First Amendment.
00:29:41.000So they're going to retune their content filters.
00:29:43.000So presumably, you will be allowed, if you subscribe to the Ben Shapiro page at Facebook, to see content from Ben Shapiro.
00:29:50.000That will be the way that it works, which is the way it always should have worked.
00:29:53.000they without your permission demoted political content in your feed using these filters that is why the traffic dropped it is why you stopped seeing it's why people disappeared not just me tons of people on the right just disappeared from your feed okay he continues fourth we're bringing back civic content For a while, the community asked to see less politics because it was making people stressed.
00:30:15.000So we stopped recommending these posts.
00:30:18.000But it feels like we're in a new era now.
00:30:20.000And we're starting to get feedback that people want to see this content again.
00:30:24.000So we're going to start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram, and threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive.
00:30:32.000So, again, that is a method of allowing you to see the politics you wanted to see in the first place and then Facebook took away from you and made it impossible for you to even know.
00:30:40.000Because hidden on a page in your settings was a way for you to turn that back on.
00:30:44.000But if you're like pretty much everybody who uses Facebook, then you don't even know that that's how you set yourself.
00:32:00.000Okay, finally, Zuckerberg makes a staffing announcement.
00:32:04.000Fifth, we're going to move our trust and safety and content moderation teams out of California, and our U.S.-based content review is going to be based in Texas.
00:32:14.000As we work to promote free expression, I think that it will help us build trust to do this work in places where there is less concern about the bias of our teams.
00:32:24.000Finally, we're going to work with President Trump to push back on governments around the world that are going after American companies and pushing to censor more.
00:32:33.000The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.
00:32:38.000Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there.
00:32:45.000Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.
00:32:52.000China has censored our apps from even working in the country.
00:32:55.000The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US government.
00:33:01.000And that's why it's been so difficult over the past four years when even the US government has pushed for censorship.
00:33:08.000By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further.
00:33:14.000But now we have the opportunity to restore free expression, and I am excited to take it.
00:33:20.000It'll take time to get this right, and these are complex systems.
00:33:25.000There's also a lot of illegal stuff that we still need to work very hard to remove.
00:33:30.000But the bottom line is that after years of having our content moderation work focus primarily on removing content, it is time to focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our systems, And getting back to our roots about giving people a voice.
00:33:45.000I'm looking forward to this next chapter.
00:33:47.000Stay good out there and more to come soon.
00:33:49.000Okay, so again, those last couple things are unbelievably important.
00:33:53.000So he's moving the content moderation teams from San Francisco, from Silicon Valley, San Jose, a bunch of libs over to Texas, where presumably you'll have a broader panoply of people who actually know the rest of America because the rest of America does in fact exist.
00:34:06.000But that last point is the telling one.
00:34:08.000This is how bad the Biden administration has been.
00:34:18.000This is why if you post the wrong thing in Britain, you will go to jail for longer than a of a young girl.
00:34:25.000This is why in Canada, you could theoretically risk jail if you say the wrong thing politically.
00:34:29.000Because it turns out the United States is unique in its pursuit of free speech.
00:34:32.000What Zuckerberg is saying is that during the Biden administration, he says it openly there, during the Biden administration, The Biden administration was engaged in precisely the same sorts of pressure tactics that are engaged in by countries around the world.
00:34:44.000The Biden administration took its lead from censorship regimes in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
00:34:49.000They did not take our lead in free speech.
00:34:52.000And now President Trump is going to do the opposite.
00:34:54.000He's going to push for free speech in all the rest of these places.
00:34:57.000Use the American standards of free speech in Europe, for example, instead of allowing Europe to set the censorship rules on all of these companies that operate inside the United States.
00:35:07.000If you're a company that operates multinationally the way that, obviously, Facebook does, you have to have standards for every single different country.
00:35:13.000You have to have a standard for China, where they won't even allow Facebook, by the way.
00:35:16.000You have to have a standard for France or for Britain or for the United States, and all these standards are different.
00:35:21.000But what the Biden administration did is they basically sided with the European standards.
00:35:25.000And so Facebook also sided with the European standards.
00:35:28.000And now that Trump is in office, the idea should be that the American exceptionalist idea of free speech should be pervade everywhere, and the U.S. government should use.
00:35:36.000It's weight in order to make sure that it can be purveyed in other places, this idea of a broader free speech movement.
00:35:42.000And we need a full-scale, long-term commitment from these social media companies to actually change.
00:35:47.000This can't just be a temporary change for purposes of pleasing President Trump.
00:35:51.000Obviously, there's a lot of politics that goes around in these areas.
00:35:55.000But a commitment to free speech by social media needs to last longer than whomever is in the office.
00:36:26.000We'll get to more of those changes in just one moment.
00:36:29.000First, kick off 2025 with 25% off a new Daily Wire Plus annual membership.
00:36:33.000This year will be one for the history books.
00:36:35.000In less than two weeks, Donald Trump will be inaugurated, and the Daily Wire will be there with live, uncensored coverage of every monumental moment.
00:36:41.000But while we celebrate what's ahead, the fight is not over.
00:36:43.0002025 reminded us of that in its very first hours.
00:37:04.000You don't need to listen to the Kevin Cruises of the world.
00:37:07.000You don't need to spend your days worried about what CNN is going to think about what social media allows to be posted.
00:37:14.000The reason I say this is because CNN has a piece talking about Meta's new moves, and here's what they say.
00:37:19.000Quote, The announcement comes amid a broader apparent ideological shift to the right within Meta's top ranks, and as Zuckerberg seeks to improve his relationship with Trump before the president-elect takes office later this month.
00:37:28.000Just one day earlier, Meta announced Trump ally and UFC CEO Dana White would join its board, along with two other new directors.
00:37:34.000Meta has also said it will donate a million dollars to Trump's inaugural fund, and that Zuckerberg wants to take an active role in tech policy discussions.
00:37:40.000Joel Kaplan, a prominent Republican who was elevated to the company's top policy job last week, acknowledged the Tuesday announcement is directly related to the changing administration.
00:37:50.000The moderation changes mark a stunning reversal in how Meta handles false and misleading claims on its platform.
00:37:55.000In 2016, the company launched an independent fact-checking program.
00:37:59.000In the wake of claims, it had failed to stop foreign actors from leveraging its platforms to spread disinformation and sow discord among Americans.
00:38:05.000In the years since, it continued to grapple with the spread of controversial content on its platform, such as misinformation about elections, anti-vaccination stories, violence, and hate speech.
00:38:15.000The company built up safety teams, introduced automated programs to filter out or reduce the visibility of false claims, and instituted a sort of independent Supreme Court for tricky moderation decisions.
00:38:24.000But now, Zuckerberg dismantled the company's fact-checking teams and made user-generated context labels called Community Notes, the platform's only method of correcting false claims.
00:38:33.000He's following in the footsteps of Musk.
00:38:44.000It's not about unleashing quote-unquote misinformation.
00:38:47.000It's about stopping the censorship regime.
00:38:50.000And again, it's going to be up to Zuckerberg and Elon and all the members of the social media honchos to stop listening to the people who would like broader censorship again in the name of power.
00:39:02.000Okay, meanwhile, again, the election of Trump is being felt all over the political and corporate map.
00:39:08.000McDonald's has now dropped its diversity targets for employees and suppliers.
00:39:12.000According to the Wall Street Journal, the Chicago-based company said it would not issue new representation goals for its staff, but will continue to report numbers pertaining to diversity in its ranks.
00:39:19.000They used to actually set goals as to how many people of each particular race should be employed at McDonald's.
00:40:05.000So yesterday, of course, was January 6th.
00:40:06.000And that means it was time to talk about...
00:40:08.000Democracy and quote-unquote threats to democracy.
00:40:11.000Now, it seems to me a rather large threat to democracy would be cuddling the largest social media companies on the planet into censoring your opponents.
00:40:19.000That seems to me a rather large threat to democracy, a systemic threat to democracy.
00:40:23.000In fact, a much larger and more systemic threat to democracy than a rally that led to a smaller riot that led to a group of people who are fairly small in number going out of control at the Capitol and committing criminal acts.
00:40:34.000That seems to me significantly less bad.
00:40:38.000Then what the Biden administration did to censor free speech, try to force 80 million Americans to vaccinate against their will.
00:40:45.000There are many things that the left does on a daily basis in order to maximize power and prevent the freedom of Americans.
00:40:53.000But the left's got one card and they're going to play it over and over and over.
00:40:56.000And that card is bad things happened on January 6th.
00:41:00.000So Kamala Harris had to ironically preside over the failure of her own presidential campaign.
00:41:06.000Yesterday in Congress, she had to certify the election.
00:41:09.000That's her job as the Vice President of the United States.
00:41:11.000And here she was tooting her own horn about it.
00:41:15.000Today, I did what I have done my entire career, which is take seriously the oath that I have taken many times to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, which included today performing my constitutional duties to ensure that...
00:41:32.000The people of America, the voters of America, will have their votes counted, that those votes matter, and that they will determine then the outcome of an election.
00:41:42.000I do believe very strongly that America's democracy is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it.
00:41:52.000Every single person, their willingness to fight for and respect the importance of our democracy.
00:42:00.000Otherwise, it is very fragile and it will not be able to withstand moments of crisis.
00:42:11.000Okay, wow, look at America's democracy stood January 6th also, like 2021. This nonsense that we were like on the verge of the government being overthrown is just absolute sheer crap.
00:42:22.000But again, the left has to play that up because their actual goal is to hollow out all of the institutions of American life.
00:42:43.000There are only, I believe, five hosts on The View.
00:42:45.000And two of them have now made big Holocaust boo-boos.
00:42:48.000There's a pretty high percentage of Holocaust boo-boos happening over at The View.
00:42:52.000Remember, Whoopi Goldberg once suggested that the Holocaust was not based on race because her head is so far up her ass, it's coming out her face again.
00:42:58.000Well, Sonny Hostin is somehow even dumber than Whoopi Goldberg.
00:43:00.000So yesterday on The View, this collection of high IQ intellectuals, Sonny Hostin suggested that January 6th was akin to the Holocaust.
00:43:10.000Now, I'm just going to put it out there that a smallish riot at the Capitol building was not, in fact, comparable to the Holocaust.
00:43:21.000I don't feel like that one's particularly controversial.
00:43:24.000But again, not much going on upstairs over at The View.
00:43:28.000I think we need to find moral clarity.
00:43:33.000And I just remember after January 6th, you had someone like Mitch McConnell placing the blame on January 6th where it belonged squarely on Donald Trump's shoulders.
00:43:41.000And then you started seeing people backtrack that and losing their moral center.
00:43:47.000You had Condoleezza Rice, I believe, on this very show saying, you know, we need to move on from January 6th.
00:43:52.000I say, no, you don't move on because January 6th was an atrocity.
00:43:56.000It was one of the worst moments in American history.
00:44:00.000When you think about the worst moments in American history, you know, like World War II, things that happened, you know, like the Holocaust, chattel slavery, we need to never forget because past becomes prologue if you forget any race.
00:44:23.000I mean, how many historical statements that are false can you make in 20 seconds there?
00:44:29.000First of all, I love that the Holocaust is now in American history.
00:44:32.000It's actually mostly in European history.
00:44:34.000Like, we liberated death camps in the United States.
00:44:36.000We actually were not responsible for the Holocaust.
00:44:39.000And then comparing it to World War II, where hundreds of thousands of Americans died in battle and hundreds of thousands more were wounded, and comparing it to chattel slavery, I feel that that's a little insulting to, you know, black Americans to compare January 6th to centuries of chattel slavery in the United States.
00:45:22.000You will hear many soberly and reverently laud the peaceful transfer of power.
00:45:27.000Well, I hate to be the fly at the picnic table, but you can't peacefully transfer power to an insurrectionist simply because it took them an extra four years to finish the job.
00:47:13.000It's the sought martyrdom of the left.
00:47:15.000Okay, in other ways, the world is changing.
00:47:18.000Justin Trudeau announced yesterday that he intends to resign as the head of the Liberal Party in Canada, which means that the minute that he is replaced as head of the Liberal Party, that person will then take the prime ministership up until the next election unless there is a vote of no confidence, which there absolutely 100% should be, considering this doof, if he were to run in the upcoming election, win about 20% of the vote and lose something like...
00:47:41.000Two-thirds to three-quarters of the seats that his party currently holds in the House of Commons in Canada.
00:47:50.000Even though he looks exactly like Fidel Castro.
00:47:52.000Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.
00:47:55.000I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.
00:48:10.000Last night I asked the president of the Liberal Party to begin that process.
00:48:19.000Just a trip down memory lane with Justin Trudeau.
00:48:21.000The reason that he has to leave is because he's really, really bad at his job.
00:48:24.000But the final cap on him being bad at his job was the election of Donald Trump, who has declared that Justin Trudeau might be the governor of our 51st state.
00:48:32.000Well, now that he's leaving, I feel like our window to take Canada is shrinking.
00:48:40.000I feel like, at that point, we have an allied government, and also they might resist the invasion.
00:48:45.000Right now, we'll be greeted as liberators because no one likes Justin Trudeau at all.
00:48:49.000And in my plan for greater America, which includes both Canada and Greenland, as well as ownership of the Panama Canal, I feel like the window is closing, guys.
00:48:58.000In any case, the reason Justin Trudeau is actually going is because he's quite terrible at his job, and Donald Trump pointed that out.
00:49:05.000And then because Justin Trudeau can't deal with Donald Trump, Finance Minister Chrystia Friedland decided that she was going to walk out on his government.
00:49:14.000Well, he has a 73% disapproval rating, including 43% of liberal voters.
00:49:22.000Chrystia Friedland called out Trudeau's costly political gimmicks in her resignation letter.
00:49:26.000That was a reference to his $4.5 billion plan to send $175 checks to everybody in the country, making less than $105,000 a year.
00:49:35.000His signature carbon tax has reduced real incomes across the country, according to Barry Weiss over at the Free Press.
00:49:41.000Canada's record on immigration is insane.
00:49:44.000They had 1.1 million new immigrants who came to the country in 2022 alone.
00:49:48.000Many of those people do not exactly share Canada's values, driving up anti-Semitism in the country.
00:49:53.000Violent crime has skyrocketed under Trudeau's leadership.
00:49:56.000Homicides rose by more than 50% between 2014. And 2022, there's now more violent crime on a per capita basis in Canada than in the United States, which is insane.
00:50:57.000He's in the middle of great suffering in Canada, but at least he was shaking it off.
00:51:01.000And then meanwhile, you'll remember Justin Trudeau going after the Freedom Convoy.
00:51:05.000The Freedom Convoy, of course, were truckers who decided that they didn't want to lose their job or, you know, be forced to take a vaccine.
00:51:10.000And Justin Trudeau said that they were a fringe.
00:51:15.000Do you have any regrets about calling Ottawa protesters a fringe minority?
00:51:20.000Yeah, I wish I had said that differently.
00:51:25.000As I've reflected on it over the past months, not just freshly from this Commissioner's report, I wish I had phrased it differently.
00:51:37.000The fact is, there is a very small number of people in this country who deliberately spread misinformation and disinformation that led to Canadians' deaths.
00:51:52.000That led to excessive hardship in people who believed them.
00:51:58.000I continue to be very, very firm against those individuals.
00:52:07.000But that is a small subset of people who were just hurting.
00:52:14.000I mean, so he says, even there, he called these people a fringe minority, and then he's like, I regret I said that.
00:52:20.000Also, they killed a lot of people in their fringe minority.
00:52:22.000The leadership of moron Justin Trudeau.
00:52:26.000Okay, how about Justin Trudeau on trans policy?
00:52:28.000Again, this guy was a left-wing dream.
00:52:30.000I think what we are seeing across the West right now, by the way, is simply a response to reality.
00:52:34.000It turns out that in rich times, when everybody is fat and happy, you can do a bunch of left-wing policy, and then, over the course of about 5-10 years, everything goes to hell in a handbasket, and then you have to turn back to the right.
00:52:44.000Here's Justin Trudeau on trans policy.
00:55:47.000That's obviously true in Britain, where consternation continues to roil the country after Elon Musk's criticism of Keir Starmer, the prime minister of Britain, who presided over the Crown Prosecution Service, which was completely derelict in looking into the spate of radical Muslims and white girls over the course of decades.
00:56:07.000In Great Britain, ignored by the police, ignored by the authorities, ignored by the media for literally decades on end because it might be politically incorrect to look into the problem.
00:56:15.000Nigel Farage has a piece over at Express, the Express in the UK, saying, quote, I've campaigned for over a decade on the issue of gangs and children and young girls.
00:56:37.000And highlighting this would shatter the idea of multicultural Britain being a bed of roses.
00:56:41.000Had some parts of the media not tried to muzzle certain people back then, perhaps more could have been done sooner to stamp out the criminal activities of the predators who ruined so many lives.
00:56:48.000I'm told there could be as many as 50 towns and cities in England who have been affected by this evil.
00:56:54.000Something similar is going on now, says Nigel Farage.
00:56:57.000Sir Keir Starmer seems to be trying to sweep the past failures of the establishment under the carpet by denying calls for a statutory inquiry into...
00:57:05.000Starmer was director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013 when many of these gangs were active.
00:57:11.000For the sake of public confidence, urgent questions must be answered about his conduct and that of the Crown Prosecution Service during every one of those years and beyond.
00:57:21.000That is Nigel Farage, who's the head of the Reform Party in the UK, which has been getting serious steam because the Conservative Party refuses to be conservative over in the UK. Meanwhile, Elon Musk again has raised this issue.
00:57:33.000Transnationally, he is becoming the subject of much consternation and outrage, because how dare he intervene in the politics of other nations?
00:57:40.000A whole article in the Wall Street Journal today, quote, Elon Musk is roiling European politics.
00:57:44.000Elon Musk is throwing grenades into Europe's political mainstream over issues ranging from immigration to free speech, creating a dilemma for governments as they try to respond to the tech billionaire and key advisor to the incoming Trump administration.
00:57:55.000In recent days and weeks, Musk has weighed in with a series of incendiary social media posts on European politics, including supporting a far-right party ahead of an election in Germany, accusing the British Prime Minister of being complicit in denouncing judges in Italy and slamming the European Commission.
00:58:13.000The French president, who's been stymieing the right by allying with the insane loony bin socialist leftist, Mélenchon.
00:58:20.000He says, quote, 10 years ago, if someone had told us the owner of one of the world's biggest social media companies would support a new international reactionary movement and intervene directly in elections, including in Germany, who would have imagined that?
00:59:00.000How could, in Norway, the Norwegian prime minister, whose name is spelled Jonas Garstor, but it's pronounced Jonas Garstor, I looked it up last night.
00:59:11.000I'm still mispronouncing it, but it's closer to the latter than the former.
00:59:14.000In any case, he said he found it worrying that a billionaire social media owner, Like Elon Musk is inserting himself into the politics of other countries.
00:59:52.000This is a quote from October 2015. George Soros on immigration in Hungary.
00:59:56.000Quote, his plan treats the protection, this is Viktor Orban he's talking about, his plan treats the protection of national borders as the objective and the refugees as an obstacle.
01:00:05.000Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle.
01:00:09.000Talk about saying the quiet part out loud.
01:00:16.000Saying that, quote, China not only has a more vigorous economy than the United States, but actually a better functioning government than the United States.