The Ben Shapiro Show - MASSIVE MAGA WIN: Facebook REVERSES Its Censorship!

00:00:00.000 Well, folks, Donald Trump is not yet president, and the world is changing in dramatic, dramatic ways.

00:00:05.000 This morning, Mark Zuckerberg, the head of Meta, which of course is the parent company of Facebook, as well as Instagram, made a huge announcement.

00:00:13.000 Facebook, he said, is now going to be reversing its censorship policies.

00:00:17.000 This is enormous.

00:00:18.000 Facebook has absolutely crushed, I mean crushed, conservative media on the platform over the course of the last several years.

00:00:26.000 We know this...

00:00:27.000 Personally, 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.

00:00:38.000 Something shifted.

00:00:39.000 And 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.

00:00:51.000 We went from that to less than 100 million impressions a month.

00:00:56.000 90% reduction in impressions, in reach.

00:00:59.000 And 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.

00:01:09.000 I want to get to what he is doing, what the policies actually look like in a second.

00:01:13.000 I want to begin with the timeline.

00:01:15.000 Because 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.

00:01:25.000 Things fundamentally changed.

00:01:27.000 They 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.

00:01:39.000 That social media was a way for people to network with each other, for political content to be distributed to a broader audience.

00:01:45.000 In fact, the Obama 2012 campaign had received all sorts of plaudits for its magical use of Facebook in getting people out to vote.

00:01:53.000 In 2012. And then Donald Trump won in 2016. And Democrats, looking for an excuse for why Trump had won, decided.

00:02:00.000 It couldn't be because Hillary Clinton was an awful candidate. 1.00

00:02:03.000 It couldn't be because Democrats had become disconnected from the body politic.

00:02:07.000 It had to be.

00:02:08.000 It had to be that social media had allowed Trump to win.

00:02:12.000 Social media had to be cuddled into the corner.

00:02:15.000 It had to have been.

00:02:16.000 The American people, the American populace, was manipulated by outside forces.

00:02:20.000 That Russian bots had manipulated the election.

00:02:23.000 You remember this narrative.

00:02:24.000 This 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.

00:02:34.000 And 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...

00:02:44.000 Mueller investigation and the entire Russiagate nonsense that lasted four years.

00:02:48.000 But in the realm of social media and free speech, this turned into an argument for censorship.

00:02:53.000 It turned into an argument for shutting down social media's dissemination of dissenting points of views.

00:02:58.000 The 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.

00:03:07.000 Now, the left like to hide this behind the rubric of disinformation.

00:03:12.000 Remember, they used this word all the time in 2017. Russian disinformation.

00:03:16.000 Election disinformation.

00:03:17.000 That's why Trump had won.

00:03:18.000 And then they started to merge that with misinformation.

00:03:21.000 It turned into misinformation and disinformation.

00:03:24.000 Now, those are two very different terms.

00:03:25.000 Disinformation would be a foreign power actively intervening with false information in order to thwart the will of the people, for example.

00:03:33.000 Misinformation is just a catch-all term for things that you may not like in politics.

00:03:39.000 Misinformation, for example, the media said, Was that Joe Biden was senile.

00:03:43.000 That was misinformation.

00:03:44.000 We were told that.

00:03:45.000 It was cheap fakes and misinformation.

00:03:46.000 So what the media started to do was lump all this together.

00:03:49.000 Anything the media didn't like, the legacy media, anything the legacy media didn't like, had to be shut down.

00:03:55.000 This is also a business proposition for the legacy media.

00:03:57.000 So it was a political proposition because they did not want people like Donald Trump to win.

00:04:02.000 But it was also a business proposition because the thing about Facebook...

00:04:07.000 And the thing about social media generally is it allowed startup enterprises like The Daily Wire to actually thrive.

00:04:12.000 We were able to market ourselves on Facebook.

00:04:14.000 We 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.

00:04:23.000 That's what social media was for.

00:04:24.000 And 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.

00:04:35.000 Like all the big social media outlets.

00:04:36.000 By 2017, Dianne Feinstein, and of course she was alive, she was a senator from California, she was holding hearings.

00:04:43.000 Democrats in the Senate were holding hearings, berating members of the social media hierarchy, and telling them that they needed to crack down on disinformation.

00:04:51.000 And if they didn't crack down on disinformation, the government would.

00:04:55.000 The 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.

00:05:08.000 What 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.

00:05:27.000 We are not going to go away, gentlemen.

00:05:31.000 And this is a very big deal.

00:05:34.000 I went home last night with profound disappointment.

00:05:39.000 I asked specific questions.

00:05:41.000 I got vague answers.

00:05:43.000 And that just won't do.

00:05:47.000 You have a huge problem on your hands.

00:05:51.000 And the United States is going to be the first of the countries to bring it to your attention.

00:05:55.000 And others are going to follow, I'm sure.

00:05:58.000 Because you bear this responsibility.

00:06:01.000 You've created these platforms.

00:06:04.000 And now they are being misused.

00:06:06.000 And you have to be the ones to do something about it.

00:06:12.000 Or we will.

00:06:16.000 Open threats.

00:06:17.000 Open threats.

00:06:18.000 And again, the goal of this was to shut down dissenting points of view.

00:06:21.000 This is not about Russians.

00:06:23.000 It was never about Russian disinformation.

00:06:25.000 Those supposed effective Russian memes over the course of the entire 2016 election cycle reached about 126 million people.

00:06:32.000 That sounds like a big number until you realize that my personal Facebook page was reaching a billion people every single month.

00:06:40.000 Okay, so these are not big numbers, actually, over the course of an entire election cycle.

00:06:44.000 It was never about that.

00:06:45.000 It was always about censorship.

00:06:48.000 Over at Meta, which was then Facebook, was coming under severe pressure.

00:06:51.000 But he was standing up to the pressure.

00:06:53.000 In 2019, he gave a speech at Georgetown.

00:06:55.000 We talked about it on the show.

00:06:56.000 You can go find the episode.

00:06:57.000 In which he stood up for free speech in what I thought were useful, productive and strong ways.

00:07:04.000 Here was Zuckerberg back in 2019. Today, we are in another moment of social tension.

00:07:12.000 We face real issues that are going to take a long time to work through.

00:07:16.000 Massive economic transitions from globalization and technology.

00:07:21.000 Fallout that remains from the 2008 financial crisis.

00:07:25.000 Very polarized reactions to social issues and greater migration.

00:07:29.000 Not just here, but across the EU and around the world.

00:07:32.000 And many of our issues flow downstream from these changes.

00:07:38.000 And in the face of these tensions, once again, a popular impulse is to pull back on free expression.

00:07:44.000 We're at another crossroads.

00:07:47.000 We 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.

00:07:58.000 Or we can decide that the cost is simply too great.

00:08:03.000 And I'm here today because I believe...

00:08:07.000 That we must continue to stand for free expression.

00:08:12.000 Okay, and he was right then.

00:08:13.000 He 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.

00:08:20.000 And the thing that happened was 2020. Donald Trump was up for reelection.

00:08:23.000 And several things coincided.

00:08:25.000 One, the COVID pandemic.

00:08:27.000 And the government started to go to social media and tell social media it needed to shut down misinformation about the pandemic.

00:08:33.000 And that misinformation ranged from actual false data.

00:08:37.000 Two things that were patently true.

00:08:39.000 Things like, for example, the fact that the vaccine did not prevent transmission, which, as it turns out, was true.

00:08:46.000 Things like the Wuhan virus theory, that it came from a lab in theory, the lab leak theory.

00:08:52.000 That was shut down by social media at the behest of governments.

00:08:57.000 All the way up through the election, when the Hunter Biden laptop scandal was deliberately buried by places like Facebook, they shut down the dissemination.

00:09:05.000 of the Hunter Biden laptop link.

00:09:06.000 You remember this happened at Twitter also because this is before Elon had bought Twitter.

00:09:09.000 So 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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00:11:42.000 Kira 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.

00:11:53.000 The distribution on Facebook was decreased, but people were still allowed to share it.

00:11:58.000 So you could still share it.

00:11:59.000 You could still consume it.

00:12:00.000 So when you say the distribution has decreased, how does that work?

00:12:04.000 Basically, the ranking in News Feed was a little bit less.

00:12:07.000 So fewer people saw it than would have otherwise.

00:12:11.000 By what percentage?

00:12:12.000 I don't know off the top of my head, but it's meaningful.

00:12:16.000 But basically, a lot of people were still able to share it.

00:12:25.000 obviously 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

00:12:52.000 I know I don't remember if it was that specifically, but it was it basically fit the pattern.

00:12:57.000 OK, now later, Zuckerberg would admit that actually there was tremendous pressure in 2020 and also in 2021, and it only ratcheted up in 2021.

00:13:07.000 So 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.

00:13:14.000 The idea was that Facebook had been responsible for January 6th.

00:13:18.000 You remember this.

00:13:18.000 Again, 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.

00:13:27.000 Always and forever, it's about power.

00:13:29.000 It is never about principle.

00:13:30.000 It is always about power.

00:13:31.000 If 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.

00:13:39.000 By 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.

00:13:52.000 And this took the form of members of the Biden White House actively stumping to reduce our traffic on Facebook.

00:14:00.000 This is a thing that happened.

00:14:01.000 According to just the news, there were meeting notes from the White House.

00:14:06.000 Quote, 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.

00:14:18.000 Those 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.

00:14:32.000 During 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.

00:14:42.000 Quote, 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?

00:14:52.000 Flaherty 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.

00:15:04.000 We had way more likes, way more clicks, way more reaction than The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, everyone.

00:15:09.000 That is why the White House was targeting us.

00:15:11.000 And basically, in response to that, in response to our success on Facebook, The Daily Wire is a company, our success on Facebook.

00:15:18.000 Facebook, under pressure from the White House, decided to completely shift their entire take on political media.

00:15:24.000 They decided they were going to shut down the dissemination of political media on Facebook.

00:15:28.000 And we could see it in the statistics.

00:15:29.000 We had to change our entire business model to adjust for the fact that Facebook had done this again.

00:15:34.000 The reach on my personal page dropped by 90 percent, 90, in the middle of 2021 because of all of this.

00:15:41.000 And Zuckerberg has admitted publicly that in 2021 they shifted all of their policies at the behest of the Biden administration.

00:15:48.000 At the behest of the left.

00:15:50.000 All of this, by the way, again, designed to benefit legacy media.

00:15:52.000 Because if you shut down the alternatives to legacy media, the only thing left is legacy media.

00:15:57.000 If 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.

00:16:17.000 Of the upstart little guys.

00:16:19.000 That is what that does.

00:16:20.000 It is effectively a government-controlled monopoly at that point or an oligopoly.

00:16:25.000 Again, in 2024, this is precisely what Zuckerberg recognized.

00:16:31.000 Zuckerberg 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.

00:16:46.000 Again.

00:16:47.000 He 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.

00:16:54.000 Quote, 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.

00:17:05.000 I believe the government pressure was wrong.

00:17:07.000 I regret we were not more outspoken about it.

00:17:09.000 I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't make today.

00:17:14.000 Okay, so.

00:17:15.000 Now Donald Trump has won reelection.

00:17:18.000 Now Donald Trump has won reelection.

00:17:20.000 And because Donald Trump has won reelection, the tides have turned.

00:17:23.000 And so there are two ways to view this.

00:17:25.000 One is that Facebook is sort of riding the winds of whatever is popular.

00:17:30.000 That if Democrats get elected, the censorship goes right back into place.

00:17:33.000 And that's a possibility.

00:17:34.000 The 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.

00:17:43.000 And 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.

00:17:48.000 And now that they no longer have control, Facebook can finally let up and allow people to see the content they wanted to see.

00:17:54.000 You have to understand, what Facebook did is they made it so that you were automatically downgraded in the political content you viewed.

00:18:01.000 If you subscribed, if you followed my page, for example, over at Facebook, which again, was one of the top pages of Facebook, period.

00:18:07.000 If you did that, I just disappeared from your feed.

00:18:08.000 You may have noticed this, if you're on Facebook at all.

00:18:11.000 My show, my content just disappeared from your feed.

00:18:14.000 And Facebook said that they had done this to all political content, and that's true.

00:18:17.000 They 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.

00:18:32.000 Well, now they're reversing themselves.

00:18:33.000 And so Mark Zuckerberg this morning put out about a five-minute video explaining the changes that are happening over at Facebook.

00:18:39.000 I want to go through it piece by piece because every piece of this, Hey, everyone.

00:18:58.000 I want to talk about something important today because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.

00:19:05.000 I started building social media to give people a voice.

00:19:08.000 I gave a speech at Georgetown five years ago about the importance of protecting free expression, and I still believe this today.

00:19:15.000 But a lot has happened over the last several years.

00:19:17.000 There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content.

00:19:22.000 Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.

00:19:26.000 A lot of this is clearly political, but there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there.

00:19:31.000 Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.

00:19:33.000 these are things that we take very seriously and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.

00:19:38.000 So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.

00:19:41.000 But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.

00:19:45.000 Even if they accidentally censor just 1% of posts, that's millions of people.

00:19:50.000 And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.

00:19:54.000 The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point towards once again prioritizing speech.

00:20:01.000 So we're going to get back to our roots.

00:20:02.000 Stop it there for a second.

00:20:03.000 Thank you.

00:20:04.000 Okay, that is the key.

00:20:06.000 The recent elections are a cultural tipping point.

00:20:09.000 Now, they are also a political tipping point, obviously, and a governmental and regulatory tipping point, very clearly.

00:20:14.000 So 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.

00:20:27.000 That's what I would hope for.

00:20:28.000 Okay, but what he is saying is correct, and the implication is also correct, which is that...

00:20:33.000 The Democratic Party does not like free speech, particularly on social media.

00:20:37.000 So long as social media is censoring the stuff they want, they are perfectly in favor of censorship.

00:20:42.000 It's the reason why Elon Musk went from amazing tech genius in Iron Man to batty of the week. 1.00

00:20:49.000 That's why.

00:20:50.000 It'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.

00:21:00.000 And 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.

00:21:08.000 They do not like free speech.

00:21:10.000 Zuckerberg acknowledges it.

00:21:11.000 Everyone knows this.

00:21:12.000 The reason there is a new wind across America is because Trump was elected.

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00:23:32.000 Okay, continue.

00:23:33.000 And focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.

00:23:40.000 More specifically, here's what we're going to do.

00:23:43.000 First, 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.

00:23:59.000 We tried in good faith to address those concerns without becoming the arbiters of truth.

00:24:04.000 But 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.

00:24:17.000 Okay, so that point, again, totally right.

00:24:20.000 And we've been yelling this from the rooftops for years.

00:24:23.000 The news fact-checking organizations are opinion organizations of the left.

00:24:26.000 This is true for all of them.

00:24:28.000 This is true for the Washington Post fact checker.

00:24:30.000 This is true for PolitiFact.

00:24:31.000 It was true for all of them, for all the fact checkers and the lie checkers.

00:24:37.000 They were all biased to the left, clearly and obviously, in two ways.

00:24:41.000 One, in their selection bias, the things they chose to fact check, and two, how they fact checked those things.

00:24:46.000 So if Joe Biden told a lie, it wasn't a lie.

00:24:48.000 It was a misspeak.

00:24:49.000 If 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.

00:24:58.000 That is the way the fact-checkers did their work.

00:24:59.000 And this was wrapped into broader conversations about censorship.

00:25:02.000 So you had entire organizations like GARM, which we helped dismantle along with Elon Musk and the House Judiciary Committee.

00:25:10.000 GARM, the Global Alliance for Responsible Media, was a censorship racket.

00:25:14.000 It was designed as a quote-unquote fact-checking organization designed to downgrade particular outlets.

00:25:21.000 These organizations like NewsGuard, NewsGuard.

00:25:24.000 An organization specifically designed to quote-unquote rate news outlets that invariably benefited the left at the expense of the right.

00:25:32.000 Invariably.

00:25:32.000 Those 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.

00:25:39.000 And Zuckerberg is now acknowledging the reality. 0.99

00:25:41.000 These fact checkers were totally full of crap. 1.00

00:25:43.000 They've been full of crap for years. 1.00

00:25:45.000 We have been screaming this stuff from the rooftop. 1.00

00:25:47.000 Screaming it.

00:25:48.000 And it has determined social media policy, meaning how you actually are able to access information.

00:25:55.000 Zuckerberg correctly is looking at the wonderful thing that Elon did on X with Community Notes, and he's actually implementing that over at Facebook.

00:26:01.000 So 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.

00:26:12.000 That 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.

00:26:23.000 So that is move number one.

00:26:24.000 That is correct.

00:26:25.000 It should have been done years ago.

00:26:26.000 Here's move number two.

00:26:28.000 Second, 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.

00:26:39.000 What 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.

00:26:48.000 So I want to make sure...

00:26:49.000 That people can share their beliefs and experiences on our platforms.

00:26:54.000 So, second thing.

00:26:55.000 He acknowledges there are certain issues that Facebook has shut down discussion of.

00:27:00.000 Correct!

00:27:01.000 Correct!

00:27:01.000 You know how hard we've had to look at all of our content just to not have our pages banned?

00:27:06.000 If you say things like, men are not women, on Facebook, this puts you in danger for years on end.

00:27:12.000 It was true on X also until Elon bought the platform.

00:27:15.000 If you say, mass migration...

00:27:18.000 By radical Muslims into the West is a threat. 1.00

00:27:21.000 That was something that would get downgraded in the news.

00:27:24.000 You 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.

00:27:38.000 We've had to bleep out actual descriptions of like geography in the Middle East because it might be too controversial.

00:27:45.000 And what is he acknowledging?

00:27:47.000 He's acknowledging the left has tried to shut down conversation on these issues and social media was compliant.

00:27:52.000 Social 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.

00:28:03.000 So good.

00:28:04.000 Good.

00:28:05.000 Late, but good.

00:28:07.000 Okay, he goes on to the third change over at Facebook.

00:28:10.000 Third.

00:28:11.000 We're changing how we enforce our policies to reduce the mistakes that account for the vast majority of censorship on our platforms.

00:28:19.000 We used to have filters that scanned for any policy violation.

00:28:23.000 Now we're going to focus those filters on tackling illegal and high severity violations.

00:28:28.000 And for lower severity violations, we're going to rely on someone reporting an issue before we take action.

00:28:34.000 The problem is that the filters make mistakes, and they take down a lot of content that they shouldn't.

00:28:39.000 So by dialing them back, we're going to dramatically reduce the amount of censorship on our platforms.

00:28:45.000 We're also going to tune our content filters to require much higher confidence before taking down content.

00:28:52.000 The reality is that this is a trade-off.

00:28:54.000 It 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.

00:29:02.000 Okay, this is a huge thing.

00:29:05.000 Okay, the point that he is making here, which is that the filters were set in order to exclude particular content.

00:29:12.000 This is how social media quote-unquote blamed the algorithm.

00:29:15.000 He set the algorithm to remove political content and it removes everything.

00:29:18.000 This 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.

00:29:29.000 And the Supreme Court idiotically found that that was not a violation of the First Amendment.

00:29:33.000 On standing grounds. 0.86

00:29:34.000 They didn't even get to the underlying issue.

00:29:35.000 They said for standing reasons, this lawsuit wasn't ripe or whatever, but it clearly was a violation of the First Amendment.

00:29:41.000 So they're going to retune their content filters.

00:29:43.000 So presumably, you will be allowed, if you subscribe to the Ben Shapiro page at Facebook, to see content from Ben Shapiro.

00:29:50.000 That will be the way that it works, which is the way it always should have worked.

00:29:53.000 they 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.

00:30:15.000 So we stopped recommending these posts.

00:30:18.000 But it feels like we're in a new era now.

00:30:20.000 And we're starting to get feedback that people want to see this content again.

00:30:24.000 So we're going to start phasing this back into Facebook, Instagram, and threads while working to keep the communities friendly and positive.

00:30:32.000 So, 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.

00:30:40.000 Because hidden on a page in your settings was a way for you to turn that back on.

00:30:44.000 But if you're like pretty much everybody who uses Facebook, then you don't even know that that's how you set yourself.

00:30:49.000 You don't even know it went away.

00:30:50.000 You don't even know why it went away.

00:30:52.000 You just consume passively what comes through your screen on most of these social media sites.

00:30:56.000 So now they're changing that, so now you can finally see that stuff again.

00:30:58.000 And this never should have happened.

00:31:00.000 It happened because of Democrats.

00:31:01.000 It happened because of the left.

00:31:03.000 It happened because the left decided they wanted to kill alternative media.

00:31:06.000 That's what this was.

00:31:07.000 Pure and simple.

00:31:08.000 And Facebook was part of that process, and now they're reversing themselves because, as Zuckerberg says, the winds have changed.

00:31:15.000 Times have changed.

00:31:16.000 Now, question.

00:31:16.000 Did the times change, or were we all politically active the whole time?

00:31:19.000 The answer is, we were all politically active and interested the entire time.

00:31:23.000 Our company has doubled, tripled, quadrupled in growth since the time that Facebook cracked down on us.

00:31:28.000 In a wide variety of ways, we have worked around those systems.

00:31:32.000 Not on Facebook, but in terms of how we designed our business.

00:31:35.000 With that said, the real reason that this is changing is not because the American people are quote-unquote re-engaging in politics.

00:31:41.000 We've been a little engaged, you may have noticed.

00:31:42.000 The real reason is because Trump won.

00:31:44.000 And now, for the first time, the left is not in control.

00:31:47.000 And social media...

00:31:48.000 You better stick with it.

00:31:50.000 You better stick with it.

00:31:51.000 Because enough of this going back and forth.

00:31:53.000 The shilly shout, the minute Democrats get, if they win the midterms, we're going to go right back to censoring. 0.99

00:31:57.000 It's absolute horse crap. 0.99

00:31:59.000 It has to end. 0.99

00:32:00.000 Okay, finally, Zuckerberg makes a staffing announcement.

00:32:04.000 Fifth, 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.

00:32:14.000 As 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.

00:32:24.000 Finally, 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.

00:32:33.000 The US has the strongest constitutional protections for free expression in the world.

00:32:38.000 Europe has an ever-increasing number of laws institutionalizing censorship and making it difficult to build anything innovative there.

00:32:45.000 Latin American countries have secret courts that can order companies to quietly take things down.

00:32:52.000 China has censored our apps from even working in the country.

00:32:55.000 The only way that we can push back on this global trend is with the support of the US government.

00:33:01.000 And that's why it's been so difficult over the past four years when even the US government has pushed for censorship.

00:33:08.000 By going after us and other American companies, it has emboldened other governments to go even further.

00:33:14.000 But now we have the opportunity to restore free expression, and I am excited to take it.

00:33:20.000 It'll take time to get this right, and these are complex systems.

00:33:23.000 They're never going to be perfect.

00:33:25.000 There's also a lot of illegal stuff that we still need to work very hard to remove.

00:33:30.000 But 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.

00:33:45.000 I'm looking forward to this next chapter.

00:33:47.000 Stay good out there and more to come soon.

00:33:49.000 Okay, so again, those last couple things are unbelievably important.

00:33:53.000 So 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.

00:34:06.000 But that last point is the telling one.

00:34:08.000 This is how bad the Biden administration has been.

00:34:10.000 This is how bad Democrats are.

00:34:12.000 All across the world, censorship regimes are common.

00:34:17.000 This is true in Europe. 0.80

00:34:18.000 This is why if you post the wrong thing in Britain, you will go to jail for longer than a of a young girl.

00:34:25.000 This is why in Canada, you could theoretically risk jail if you say the wrong thing politically.

00:34:29.000 Because it turns out the United States is unique in its pursuit of free speech.

00:34:32.000 What 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.

00:34:44.000 The Biden administration took its lead from censorship regimes in Europe, Asia, and Latin America.

00:34:49.000 They did not take our lead in free speech.

00:34:52.000 And now President Trump is going to do the opposite.

00:34:54.000 He's going to push for free speech in all the rest of these places.

00:34:57.000 Use 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.

00:35:07.000 If you're a company that operates multinationally the way that, obviously, Facebook does, you have to have standards for every single different country.

00:35:13.000 You have to have a standard for China, where they won't even allow Facebook, by the way.

00:35:16.000 You have to have a standard for France or for Britain or for the United States, and all these standards are different.

00:35:21.000 But what the Biden administration did is they basically sided with the European standards.

00:35:25.000 And so Facebook also sided with the European standards.

00:35:28.000 And 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.

00:35:36.000 It's weight in order to make sure that it can be purveyed in other places, this idea of a broader free speech movement.

00:35:42.000 And we need a full-scale, long-term commitment from these social media companies to actually change.

00:35:47.000 This can't just be a temporary change for purposes of pleasing President Trump.

00:35:51.000 Obviously, there's a lot of politics that goes around in these areas.

00:35:55.000 But a commitment to free speech by social media needs to last longer than whomever is in the office.

00:36:01.000 And that has not been the case.

00:36:02.000 That has not been the case.

00:36:03.000 And Zuckerberg acknowledges as much.

00:36:05.000 He acknowledges that Facebook literally changed its standards because of Joe Biden and Democrats in office.

00:36:10.000 That can't happen again.

00:36:11.000 It was bad for the country.

00:36:12.000 It was very, very bad for the world.

00:36:14.000 But this is the effect of one election.

00:36:16.000 This is why it matters who you vote for.

00:36:18.000 This is why it matters that Donald Trump is going to enter.

00:36:20.000 The man is not even president yet.

00:36:22.000 He has not even been sworn in as president again.

00:36:24.000 And the entire world is changing.

00:36:26.000 We'll get to more of those changes in just one moment.

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00:36:56.000 By the way, I don't want to make it seem as though the legacy media are just going to go away on this one because they certainly will not.

00:37:01.000 But it's up to social media to ignore them.

00:37:03.000 Ignore them.

00:37:04.000 You don't need to listen to the Kevin Cruises of the world.

00:37:07.000 You don't need to spend your days worried about what CNN is going to think about what social media allows to be posted.

00:37:14.000 The reason I say this is because CNN has a piece talking about Meta's new moves, and here's what they say.

00:37:19.000 Quote, 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.

00:37:28.000 Just one day earlier, Meta announced Trump ally and UFC CEO Dana White would join its board, along with two other new directors.

00:37:34.000 Meta 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.

00:37:40.000 Joel 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.

00:37:48.000 But here is CNN's take.

00:37:50.000 The moderation changes mark a stunning reversal in how Meta handles false and misleading claims on its platform.

00:37:55.000 In 2016, the company launched an independent fact-checking program.

00:37:59.000 In the wake of claims, it had failed to stop foreign actors from leveraging its platforms to spread disinformation and sow discord among Americans.

00:38:05.000 In 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.

00:38:15.000 The 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.

00:38:24.000 But 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.

00:38:33.000 He's following in the footsteps of Musk.

00:38:35.000 Oh no!

00:38:37.000 So this is how the media are going to play this.

00:38:39.000 How dare the misinformation be unleashed?

00:38:42.000 How dare the misinformation be unleashed?

00:38:44.000 Here's the thing.

00:38:44.000 It's not about unleashing quote-unquote misinformation.

00:38:47.000 It's about stopping the censorship regime.

00:38:50.000 And 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.

00:39:02.000 Okay, meanwhile, again, the election of Trump is being felt all over the political and corporate map.

00:39:08.000 McDonald's has now dropped its diversity targets for employees and suppliers.

00:39:12.000 According 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.

00:39:19.000 They used to actually set goals as to how many people of each particular race should be employed at McDonald's.

00:39:24.000 They're not going to do that anymore.

00:39:26.000 Instead, they're going to, you know, try to use the best people in the best job.

00:39:31.000 Things are changing.

00:39:32.000 And it smells like freedom, because here's the thing. 0.99

00:39:34.000 A corporation, unbound from the insanity of left-wing, censorious garbage? 0.98

00:39:40.000 Is going to pursue profit effectively? 0.97

00:39:44.000 Social media companies are going to pursue the things that they think people want to see.

00:39:49.000 They're not going to do the work of the censors if they're allowed to operate freely.

00:39:53.000 Do they feel more or less free under Trump than they did under Biden?

00:39:56.000 The answer?

00:39:56.000 Much, much more free.

00:39:58.000 This is true for everyone in the country, including people who did not vote for President Trump.

00:40:02.000 Meanwhile, what does the left have?

00:40:03.000 Well, the left's got January 6th.

00:40:05.000 So yesterday, of course, was January 6th.

00:40:06.000 And that means it was time to talk about...

00:40:08.000 Democracy and quote-unquote threats to democracy.

00:40:11.000 Now, 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.

00:40:19.000 That seems to me a rather large threat to democracy, a systemic threat to democracy.

00:40:23.000 In 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.

00:40:34.000 That seems to me significantly less bad.

00:40:38.000 Then what the Biden administration did to censor free speech, try to force 80 million Americans to vaccinate against their will.

00:40:45.000 There are many things that the left does on a daily basis in order to maximize power and prevent the freedom of Americans.

00:40:52.000 And those are much more threatening.

00:40:53.000 But the left's got one card and they're going to play it over and over and over.

00:40:56.000 And that card is bad things happened on January 6th.

00:41:00.000 So Kamala Harris had to ironically preside over the failure of her own presidential campaign. 1.00

00:41:06.000 Yesterday in Congress, she had to certify the election.

00:41:09.000 That's her job as the Vice President of the United States. 1.00

00:41:11.000 And here she was tooting her own horn about it.

00:41:15.000 Today, 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...

00:41:32.000 The 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.

00:41:42.000 I do believe very strongly that America's democracy is only as strong as our willingness to fight for it.

00:41:52.000 Every single person, their willingness to fight for and respect the importance of our democracy.

00:42:00.000 Otherwise, it is very fragile and it will not be able to withstand moments of crisis.

00:42:06.000 And today, America's democracy stood.

00:42:11.000 Okay, 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. 0.99

00:42:22.000 But again, the left has to play that up because their actual goal is to hollow out all of the institutions of American life. 0.97

00:42:28.000 Ranging from church to family.

00:42:30.000 And then replace them with an overweening state in the name of, quote, democracy.

00:42:34.000 That's their actual goal.

00:42:35.000 So, they got to play up January 6th because it's threats to democracy. 1.00

00:42:38.000 Well, we turn to the world's stupidest human being, Sonny Hostin, over at The View. 1.00

00:42:42.000 It is amazing. 1.00

00:42:43.000 There are only, I believe, five hosts on The View.

00:42:45.000 And two of them have now made big Holocaust boo-boos.

00:42:48.000 There's a pretty high percentage of Holocaust boo-boos happening over at The View. 0.99

00:42:52.000 Remember, 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. 1.00

00:42:58.000 Well, Sonny Hostin is somehow even dumber than Whoopi Goldberg. 0.99

00:43:00.000 So yesterday on The View, this collection of high IQ intellectuals, Sonny Hostin suggested that January 6th was akin to the Holocaust. 0.86

00:43:10.000 Now, 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.

00:43:21.000 I don't feel like that one's particularly controversial.

00:43:24.000 But again, not much going on upstairs over at The View.

00:43:28.000 I think we need to find moral clarity.

00:43:31.000 You know, in this country.

00:43:33.000 And 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.

00:43:41.000 And then you started seeing people backtrack that and losing their moral center.

00:43:47.000 You had Condoleezza Rice, I believe, on this very show saying, you know, we need to move on from January 6th.

00:43:52.000 I say, no, you don't move on because January 6th was an atrocity.

00:43:56.000 It was one of the worst moments in American history.

00:44:00.000 When 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. 0.62

00:44:21.000 Oh my God.

00:44:23.000 I mean, how many historical statements that are false can you make in 20 seconds there?

00:44:29.000 First of all, I love that the Holocaust is now in American history. 0.97

00:44:32.000 It's actually mostly in European history.

00:44:34.000 Like, we liberated death camps in the United States.

00:44:36.000 We actually were not responsible for the Holocaust. 0.93

00:44:39.000 And 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.

00:44:57.000 That seems kind of wild.

00:44:58.000 They are so over their skis.

00:44:59.000 They got nothing.

00:45:00.000 They got nothing.

00:45:01.000 And so they're going to fulminate.

00:45:03.000 Because when they cannot control the levers of power, all they can do is about how terrible the world is.

00:45:09.000 That's all they can do.

00:45:11.000 And then use that as a lever in order to control the levers of power again.

00:45:14.000 So you end up with Joy Reid suggesting you can't peacefully transfer power to an insurrectionist?

00:45:20.000 14 days from today.

00:45:22.000 You will hear many soberly and reverently laud the peaceful transfer of power.

00:45:27.000 Well, 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.

00:45:37.000 This was a violent transfer of power.

00:45:39.000 The most violent in US history, if we're being honest.

00:45:45.000 This was the most violent transfer.

00:45:47.000 I mean, you lost an election.

00:45:49.000 I love how things I don't like become violence, according to Joy Reid.

00:45:52.000 Well, actual violence is just, you know, a natural outcome of an unjust world.

00:45:58.000 Also, by the way, those look like very heavy earrings.

00:46:00.000 Wow, that can't be great for the neck.

00:46:02.000 And one of the great ironies of life is that two of the least happy people on earth are named Sonny and Joy.

00:46:07.000 That is always confusing to me.

00:46:09.000 How desperate are the media for a story about how bad Republicans are?

00:46:12.000 Yesterday, they tried to manufacture one out of completely whole cloth.

00:46:15.000 So one of the people who was being sworn in yesterday was Senator Deb Fischer of Nebraska, and her husband showed up as well.

00:46:23.000 And the media tried to play it as though Deb Fischer's husband would not shake Kamala Harris's hand.

00:46:29.000 That's not what happened.

00:46:30.000 He was holding the Bible on which his wife was being sworn in, and he couldn't shake her hand because he had his hand on a cane.

00:46:38.000 He can't walk well. 0.99

00:46:39.000 And so the entire left-wing media went with, He's a white guy who must hate black people. 0.99

00:46:44.000 If you want to blow out your own credibility, I'm running out of ways for you to do so, actually. 0.98

00:46:49.000 But you come up with creative new ways every day.

00:46:50.000 Congratulations.

00:46:53.000 Thank you.

00:46:54.000 Thank you.

00:46:54.000 Thank you for your work.

00:46:56.000 Thank you.

00:46:56.000 Congratulations to you.

00:46:57.000 Thank you.

00:46:58.000 You're welcome.

00:46:59.000 Thanks, sure.

00:47:00.000 It was a little awkward because...

00:47:04.000 Kamala Harris thinks that he's deliberately refusing to shake her hand.

00:47:08.000 His hand is on a cane.

00:47:10.000 He's got a cane in his hand.

00:47:13.000 It's the sought martyrdom of the left.

00:47:15.000 Okay, in other ways, the world is changing.

00:47:18.000 Justin 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...

00:47:41.000 Two-thirds to three-quarters of the seats that his party currently holds in the House of Commons in Canada.

00:47:46.000 Here is handsome Bernie Sanders.

00:47:48.000 Certainly, certainly not Fidel Castro's son.

00:47:50.000 How dare you?

00:47:50.000 Even though he looks exactly like Fidel Castro.

00:47:52.000 Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau.

00:47:55.000 I intend to resign as party leader, as prime minister, after the party selects its next leader through a robust, nationwide, competitive process.

00:48:10.000 Last night I asked the president of the Liberal Party to begin that process.

00:48:17.000 Well, I mean, it's about time.

00:48:19.000 Just a trip down memory lane with Justin Trudeau.

00:48:21.000 The reason that he has to leave is because he's really, really bad at his job.

00:48:24.000 But 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.

00:48:32.000 Well, now that he's leaving, I feel like our window to take Canada is shrinking.

00:48:36.000 Because once Pierre Poliev...

00:48:40.000 I feel like, at that point, we have an allied government, and also they might resist the invasion.

00:48:45.000 Right now, we'll be greeted as liberators because no one likes Justin Trudeau at all.

00:48:49.000 And 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.

00:48:56.000 We've got to move.

00:48:56.000 We've got to move fast and move hard.

00:48:58.000 In any case, the reason Justin Trudeau is actually going is because he's quite terrible at his job, and Donald Trump pointed that out.

00:49:05.000 And 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. 0.96

00:49:13.000 What does his record look like?

00:49:14.000 Well, he has a 73% disapproval rating, including 43% of liberal voters.

00:49:22.000 Chrystia Friedland called out Trudeau's costly political gimmicks in her resignation letter.

00:49:26.000 That 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.

00:49:35.000 His signature carbon tax has reduced real incomes across the country, according to Barry Weiss over at the Free Press.

00:49:41.000 Canada's record on immigration is insane.

00:49:44.000 They had 1.1 million new immigrants who came to the country in 2022 alone.

00:49:48.000 Many of those people do not exactly share Canada's values, driving up anti-Semitism in the country.

00:49:53.000 Violent crime has skyrocketed under Trudeau's leadership.

00:49:56.000 Homicides 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.

00:50:06.000 You remember the trucker protest?

00:50:07.000 You remember the guise of combating disinformation?

00:50:11.000 Where Canada's Online News Act was sold as a way to make social media companies pay news organizations when linking to their content.

00:50:17.000 In reality, it was an attempt to shore up legacy media.

00:50:20.000 The rise of assisted suicide, the rise of drug use, Trudeau's poor judgment.

00:50:24.000 I mean, let's just go through some of Justin Trudeau's greatest hits so we can remember.

00:50:28.000 And miss what he once was.

00:50:32.000 It was not long ago that he was shaking it off at a Taylor Swift concert.

00:50:35.000 And one of the least manly men ever to man.

00:50:37.000 Here is a Justin Trudeau to Taylor Swift concert.

00:50:39.000 There he is dancing.

00:50:49.000 Oh my god.

00:50:51.000 He is a sad person.

00:50:53.000 He is such a sad person.

00:50:57.000 He's in the middle of great suffering in Canada, but at least he was shaking it off.

00:51:01.000 And then meanwhile, you'll remember Justin Trudeau going after the Freedom Convoy.

00:51:05.000 The 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.

00:51:10.000 And Justin Trudeau said that they were a fringe.

00:51:15.000 Do you have any regrets about calling Ottawa protesters a fringe minority?

00:51:20.000 Yeah, I wish I had said that differently.

00:51:23.000 As I look back on that and...

00:51:25.000 As I've reflected on it over the past months, not just freshly from this Commissioner's report, I wish I had phrased it differently.

00:51:37.000 The fact is, there is a very small number of people in this country who deliberately spread misinformation and disinformation that led to Canadians' deaths.

00:51:52.000 That led to excessive hardship in people who believed them.

00:51:58.000 I continue to be very, very firm against those individuals.

00:52:07.000 But that is a small subset of people who were just hurting.

00:52:14.000 I mean, so he says, even there, he called these people a fringe minority, and then he's like, I regret I said that.

00:52:20.000 Also, they killed a lot of people in their fringe minority. 1.00

00:52:22.000 The leadership of moron Justin Trudeau. 1.00

00:52:26.000 Okay, how about Justin Trudeau on trans policy? 1.00

00:52:28.000 Again, this guy was a left-wing dream.

00:52:30.000 I think what we are seeing across the West right now, by the way, is simply a response to reality.

00:52:34.000 It 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.

00:52:44.000 Here's Justin Trudeau on trans policy.

00:52:47.000 Canadian parents love their kids.

00:52:51.000 And we want the very best for them, and we want them to be kept safe.

00:52:57.000 LGBT youth across this country are among the most vulnerable to homelessness, to suicide, to a range of things that can harm them.

00:53:13.000 we need to be there to defend them.

00:53:16.000 We need to be there to protect them.

00:53:18.000 And I know Canadians across the country are doing just that.

00:53:22.000 Well, I mean, cutting off the body parts of healthy children doesn't seem like a great way to protect them.

00:53:30.000 I guess the people of Canada might agree with that proposition.

00:53:32.000 The truth is, again, Justin Trudeau came straight out of a sociology lab.

00:53:36.000 Truly.

00:53:37.000 And that is why he's wildly unpopular.

00:53:39.000 And that's why his party's going to get shellacked whenever the next election is held.

00:53:42.000 Back in 2018, here he was doing land acknowledgments.

00:53:45.000 I mean, this guy's just a wet dream for the Berkeley Humanities Department.

00:53:51.000 I would like to begin by recognizing that we are, as we are every day in this house, on the ancestral land of the Algonquin people.

00:54:03.000 Well, the person who is very likely to replace him as prime minister as soon as an election is held, as I say, is Pierre Polyev.

00:54:10.000 Incredibly talented.

00:54:11.000 This guy has a...

00:54:12.000 Resting heart rate of apparently 35. He just never gets agitated.

00:54:16.000 I love this guy.

00:54:17.000 He's great.

00:54:18.000 Here's Pierre Polyev famously answering questions from a left-wing reporter while eating an apple.

00:54:24.000 On the topic, I mean, in terms of your sort of strategy currently, you're obviously taking the populist pathway.

00:54:32.000 What does that mean?

00:54:34.000 Well, appealing to people's more emotional levels, I would guess.

00:54:40.000 What do you mean by that?

00:54:41.000 Certainly you tap very strong ideological language quite frequently.

00:54:47.000 Like what?

00:54:49.000 Left wing, this and that, right wing, that type of ideological stick.

00:54:54.000 I never really talk about left or right.

00:54:56.000 I don't really believe in that.

00:54:58.000 A lot of people would say that you're simply taking a page out of the Donald Trump book.

00:55:04.000 Which people would say that?

00:55:06.000 Well, I'm sure a great many Canadians.

00:55:09.000 Like who?

00:55:11.000 I don't know who, but...

00:55:13.000 Well, you're the one who asked the question, so you must know somebody.

00:55:18.000 He's the best.

00:55:20.000 That guy...

00:55:21.000 Honestly, I kind of just want him to do all of his press conferences while consuming fruit.

00:55:27.000 I just think that it would make it so much more amusing.

00:55:29.000 Just eating a squash or something.

00:55:32.000 And vegetables would work as well. 0.99

00:55:33.000 Because it's just more amusing to answer dumb questions while eating. 0.97

00:55:37.000 I think it's hilarious. 0.84

00:55:39.000 And meanwhile, again, the impact on foreign politics of the domestic election in the United States are huge.

00:55:45.000 They're also having effect abroad.

00:55:47.000 That'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.

00:56:07.000 In 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.

00:56:15.000 Nigel 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.

00:56:23.000 It is a stain on the nation.

00:56:24.000 Justice has still not been done.

00:56:25.000 When I first raised this appalling scandal in 2012, I was accused by those on the liberal left of trying to exploit it for political gain.

00:56:31.000 I believe this was a tactic to shut down legitimate debate, probably because so many of the...

00:56:35.000 Or of Pakistani origin. 0.97

00:56:37.000 And highlighting this would shatter the idea of multicultural Britain being a bed of roses.

00:56:41.000 Had 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.

00:56:48.000 I'm told there could be as many as 50 towns and cities in England who have been affected by this evil.

00:56:54.000 Something similar is going on now, says Nigel Farage.

00:56:57.000 Sir 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...

00:57:04.000 This outrage.

00:57:05.000 Starmer was director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013 when many of these gangs were active.

00:57:11.000 For 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.

00:57:18.000 That requires a statutory inquiry.

00:57:21.000 That 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.

00:57:33.000 Transnationally, he is becoming the subject of much consternation and outrage, because how dare he intervene in the politics of other nations?

00:57:40.000 A whole article in the Wall Street Journal today, quote, Elon Musk is roiling European politics.

00:57:44.000 Elon 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.

00:57:55.000 In 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.

00:58:09.000 Oh no, this is really bad.

00:58:11.000 Emmanuel Macron is very upset. 0.83

00:58:13.000 The French president, who's been stymieing the right by allying with the insane loony bin socialist leftist, Mélenchon.

00:58:20.000 He 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?

00:58:30.000 Says Emmanuel Macron.

00:58:32.000 Meanwhile, of course, you have Germany that is now warning that he should not get involved.

00:58:37.000 He needs to stop that.

00:58:38.000 He needs to stop that right now.

00:58:40.000 According to the Express, political figures in Germany are not happy with Musk for getting involved in the country's politics.

00:58:46.000 Oh, no.

00:58:47.000 The Green Party's Robert Hayback sends a furious warning to Musk.

00:58:50.000 Telling Der Spiegel, hands off our democracy, Mr. Musk.

00:58:54.000 Opposition leader Friedrich Meyers also called Musk's remarks, quote, intrusive and pretentious.

00:58:59.000 Wow, that's just terrible.

00:59:00.000 How 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.

00:59:11.000 I'm still mispronouncing it, but it's closer to the latter than the former.

00:59:14.000 In 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.

00:59:21.000 See, here's the rule, guys.

00:59:22.000 The rule is, if you are a socialist billionaire like George Soros, you get the Medal of Freedom for intervening in foreign countries.

00:59:29.000 If, however, you are like Elon Musk and you are not, in fact, a socialist, then that means that you are really, really, really bad.

00:59:37.000 Like, super-duper bad.

00:59:39.000 And that needs to stop right now.

00:59:41.000 It needs to stop right now, this Elon Musk and his billions of dollars.

00:59:44.000 George Soros, however, again, a wonderful, wonderful person.

00:59:47.000 By the way, George Soros, we should note at this point, is absolutely awful. 0.97

00:59:50.000 He's truly terrible. 0.51

00:59:52.000 This is a quote from October 2015. George Soros on immigration in Hungary.

00:59:56.000 Quote, 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. 0.96

01:00:05.000 Our plan treats the protection of refugees as the objective and national borders as the obstacle. 0.99

01:00:09.000 Talk about saying the quiet part out loud.

01:00:11.000 National borders are the obstacle.

01:00:14.000 Soros has also praised China.

01:00:16.000 Saying that, quote, China not only has a more vigorous economy than the United States, but actually a better functioning government than the United States.

01:00:24.000 What a joy he is.

01:00:27.000 What absolute joy, George Soros.

01:00:29.000 He definitely deserved a medal of freedom from our current dead president, Joe Biden.

01:00:35.000 All right, coming up, apparently Greenland might be still on the table.

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