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00:01:33.000Alrighty, so we are now in the midst of a great move from the federal government led by the White House, aided and abetted and fostered by the establishment media to shut down your access to information you want to see.
00:01:45.000What we are watching right now is an overt.
00:01:48.000I mean, it's right there in the public eye.
00:01:49.000It's an overt collusion between the establishment media, which wishes to reestablish its monopoly over informational dissemination, between the media and the Democratic Party, which would like you to only see the crap that the mainstream media is often pushing, And social media, whom both of the aforementioned parties are now going to push into shutting down your access to information.
00:02:09.000So to understand how this works, you have to sort of understand briefly the history of how informational dissemination has happened in the United States.
00:02:16.000So if you go all the way back, the way people used to get their information at the very beginning of the Republic was a bunch of different partisan papers, and people would subscribe to them, pick them up.
00:02:56.000But it led to the rise of a professional so-called journalist class, which would be fine if they were actually just professionals following a process the way that scientists are supposed to follow the scientific process.
00:03:05.000Instead, what this led to was the rise of a cadre of self-described journalists who are supposedly better at this than anybody else.
00:03:14.000They went back to being partisans, but they just didn't tell you.
00:03:16.000And so for years, for decades in the United States, as the media began to nationalize, as the means of transportation became better, and the means of communication became better, there was a new mode of informational distribution, and it was like TV.
00:03:29.000There were only three networks, ABC, NBC, CBS.
00:03:43.000And so everybody got their information from these very narrow bandwidths of information, right?
00:03:48.000These very narrow means of distribution.
00:03:51.000Then came the internet and it exploded all of this.
00:03:53.000The internet basically allowed anybody to put up news.
00:03:56.000It was almost a reversion to the origins of the Republic.
00:04:00.000It wasn't local, it was national, but you could go to a wide variety of websites, you could check a wide variety of perspectives, and there was this really rich sort of interplay between how people were writing, it was in the very early days of the internet.
00:04:13.000Then there was the rise of social media, and social media, as is so often the case, was supposed to facilitate all of this and now has put it in danger.
00:04:20.000Social media was supposed to give you a one-stop shop for doing all of this.
00:04:25.000Instead of you having to bookmark 10 pages, if you're older than about 18 years old, you know that this is how people used to do things, right?
00:04:31.000You'd have a list of bookmarks on the side of your web browser, and then every morning, you would check, like the New York Times, the Jerusalem Post, you'd check the Washington Post, and you would check National Review.
00:04:41.000You'd be able to check all of these things, right?
00:04:45.000Then Facebook, because it aggregated so many eyeballs, because so many people were using Facebook, for example, they've started providing a newsfeed.
00:04:53.000And the news feed was supposed to basically make bookmarks obsolete.
00:04:57.000When was the last time you used a bookmark?
00:04:59.000Nobody uses bookmarks on the internet anymore because instead they have this curated list of things that they read.
00:05:04.000And that curated list is curated by social media.
00:05:08.000It's curated by, for example, Twitter, by your Twitter feed.
00:05:12.000So the idea here was that it was supposed to be easier for you to access all the information you wanted to see.
00:05:17.000The problem was that whereas before, because you were the person who was clicking on all the bookmarks, you were in control of the stuff that you were seeing.
00:05:25.000Having handed control of that over to Facebook or to Twitter for purposes of basically ease, right?
00:05:32.000Instead, you click one and then you just watch the scroll.
00:05:35.000Now, the Democrats and the media have seen that as all information and informational distribution is re-narrowed into these narrow bandwidths, instead of everybody getting their news from a wide variety of sources, now you get your news, quote-unquote, from Facebook, and then you click through, right?
00:05:52.000Once they saw that everybody had to go through Facebook, they realized they could reestablish the monopoly.
00:05:57.000All they would have to do is simply say to Facebook that Facebook was guilty of deep and abiding sin if they allowed you to see the information you wanted to see.
00:06:06.000Twitter needed to suppress information that you were not supposed to see.
00:06:10.000It was very important that if you liked information too much that the mainstream media and the Democrats didn't like, that these social media platforms, instead of easing your ability to see information, restrict your ability to see information.
00:06:23.000So the entire rationale for these social medias, the social media networks being in the news business in the first place got reversed.
00:06:29.000Instead of them making it easier for you to access information, Democrats in the media, seeing that you were now using them almost universally, they decided this is a great way of ensuring that you don't see information.
00:06:40.000This is a great way of purging these particular outlets of the information, restricting your ability to see them, shadow banning, Preventing advertising.
00:06:50.000They could reestablish their traditional monopoly by using these giant companies.
00:06:55.000They're going to leverage these giant companies into doing what they wanted.
00:06:57.000And so you have this bizarre spectacle of the media who are supposed to be the great defenders of a free press.
00:07:02.000I've never called for CNN to lose its license.
00:07:04.000I've never called for the New York Times' distribution on Facebook to be reduced because I don't care.
00:07:44.000By the media and the Democratic Party using social media to abort your ability to see the information that you want to see in authoritarian fashion.
00:07:53.000It is ugly and you should be worried about it whether you're on the right or on the left or in the center.
00:07:56.000You should be worried about it regardless because guess what?
00:08:01.000If there were a Republican in office who were saying that Facebook should restrict information from the New York Times, the media would be going ape bleep.
00:08:09.000But because the media are complicit in this now, the media are the greatest weapon against free speech happening in the country right now.
00:08:16.000The Democratic Party are fully participatory in this because they must have utopia and they will do it at the price of your ability to access information.
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00:09:33.000Okay, so once again, to understand the origins of the new anti-social media push, the attempt to use social media, As a way of restricting informational flow.
00:09:42.000You have to understand there was a tremendous reversal that happened with regard to left-wing views of social media directly after 2016.
00:09:50.000The social media before that was considered this godsend.
00:09:53.000You'll recall that there were articles in 2012 about the brilliant use of social media by the Obama administration and the Obama team in the 2012 election.
00:10:01.000What an amazing job they had done in using social media to reach the people they wanted to reach.
00:10:16.000And suddenly, the Democrats, deeply in need of some sort of narrative to explain away Trump's win, instead of just saying Hillary Clinton was a horrific candidate, which is why she lost, instead of doing that, the media and the Democrats latched onto a narrative.
00:10:29.000The narrative was, Facebook, Twitter, your social media brethren, all of these giant companies, they were responsible.
00:10:36.000And the way they were responsible is they had not properly policed themselves for things like Russian disinformation.
00:10:46.000The Russians did try to intervene in the 2016 election.
00:10:50.000Their actual activity on Facebook, if you read into the Senate reports, does not even chart in terms of important things that happened with regard to social media in 2016.
00:10:58.000Like, the actual amount of attention their posts were getting was actually low, if you know the metrics.
00:11:04.000The narrative had been set, and the narrative was that these social media outlets were being used as props by cutouts, essentially, from foreign countries.
00:11:15.000All of these informational outlets, members of the media, the Democrats, they shifted the argument from it's Russian disinformation, meaning actual agitprop put out by a foreign government in order to pervert an American election, which is actually dangerous, and which should be prevented on social media.
00:11:29.000They moved from that to, from disinformation, to, they just switched one letter, misinformation.
00:11:34.000Misinformation was anything Democrats didn't like.
00:11:36.000Now, social media had to step in and prevent misinformation.
00:11:50.000Misinformation can mean the Hunter Biden story a month before the election.
00:11:53.000Misinformation can mean that you don't think Anthony Fauci did a good job during this pandemic.
00:11:58.000Misinformation can be nearly anything so long as the media call it misinformation and then call on the federal government to pressure Facebook into preventing its dissemination.
00:12:09.000You can basically leverage Facebook into doing whatever you want, right?
00:12:13.000The shift from disinformation to misinformation is deeply important.
00:12:15.000At the beginning, the social media tech bros, they were kind of resistant to this.
00:12:19.000They said, yeah, we'd have to do a better job with Russian disinformation, but the reality is that we are platforms, right?
00:12:24.000And as platforms, it is not our job to go around trying to discern true from false in a variety of public settings.
00:12:32.000We're literally a platform in the same way that like your phone line is a platform, right?
00:12:36.000When you get on your phone line, And you tell your wife that you'll remember everything at the grocery store and then you don't.
00:12:43.000That does not make the phone line responsible for you saying something untrue to your wife.
00:13:24.000This started last year, particularly during the pandemic, when social media started cracking down on people who suggested, for example, that the Chinese lab leak theory was correct.
00:13:33.000They started saying, you can't disseminate that.
00:13:36.000I started saying about COVID, that if you have, if you put out any material on COVID, if you say, for example, that lockdowns have not been particularly effective, which they have not been by all available scientific data, if you say that, that could be a serious problem.
00:13:50.000You might have Facebook restrict your informational dissemination.
00:13:54.000If you say on some platforms that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, now, all of a sudden, you could see social media crack down on you.
00:14:01.000There's a feminist named Megan Murphy, for example, who was kicked off Twitter for the great sin of saying that a man was a man and a woman was a woman.
00:14:08.000He started to see the shift from disinformation to misinformation actually activated inside social media.
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00:18:12.000One, it is not Facebook's job to determine what is shaded information and what is debatable information and what Joe Biden thinks is true, as we will determine in a second.
00:18:21.000It turns out that half the crap that Democrats have said over the past year about this pandemic is not true, like overtly not true.
00:18:28.000And that it turns out that vaccine hesitancy is in large part due to the vacillating nature of the Democratic response and the Biden administration response to this virus and to the vaccines.
00:18:38.000And by the way, you're not going to get more people to vaccinate if you tell them explicitly, if you're explicitly saying that you are not allowed to see debated information and make up your own mind, but instead Joe Biden's going to tell you what to do.
00:18:50.000You think more people are going to vaccinate because of that?
00:18:52.000You think that's going to be an effective tactic, given the fact that people don't trust Joe Biden on this anyway, and people certainly don't trust the establishment media?
00:18:59.000When he says that Facebook is killing people, what he means is that there are people who put out bad information about vaccines on Facebook.
00:19:16.000If you wish people to believe the truth about vaccines, make the argument.
00:19:20.000This show, I personally, we're about as pro-vaccine as it is possible to be.
00:19:24.000I was calling on everybody to get the vaccine before Joe Biden was.
00:19:27.000I was saying that it was the pathway to unmasking well before the Biden administration was.
00:19:33.000So this is not about pro versus anti-vaccine.
00:19:36.000The notion that Joe Biden gets to dictate to Facebook what information is put on the platform is despicable.
00:19:42.000He's the president of the United States.
00:19:44.000There is an amendment to the Constitution, the very first one, and it says that freedom of the press and freedom of speech are guaranteed.
00:19:50.000It is not the job of the federal government to determine whether quote-unquote false or true information is put out on private platforms that were literally designed to be, again, platforms.
00:20:01.000Hey, by the way, imagine he weren't saying this about Facebook.
00:20:06.000Imagine he were saying this about the New York Times.
00:20:09.000I'm old enough to remember, because I'm more than two years old, when Donald Trump was saying that the New York Times was fake news, and everybody in the media said that it was a threat to freedom of the press.
00:20:18.000He didn't even say they should be suppressed.
00:20:20.000He didn't say that they should be put out of business.
00:20:23.000If he did, it was because Donald Trump said wild stuff all the time.
00:20:38.000Because the media are rooting for Facebook to just become the disseminators of the New York Times and the Washington Post and ABC News and NBC and CBS.
00:20:48.000They're looking for a re-establishment of the media monopoly on the back of the lie that the real reason for lack of vaccinations is because of Facebook.
00:20:57.000There are people who are responsible for putting out bad information and those people are wrong and they're doing something bad.
00:21:03.000It is not Facebook's job to be the giant god that sits above all informational distribution and does these things at the behest of the Biden administration which by the way has lied about a thousand times on issues related to the vaccine and vacillated about a thousand times on issues related to the vaccine from whether schools should be reopening To how vaccines should be handed out on the basis of quote-unquote equity.
00:21:25.000To whether you can unmask after you're vaccinated.
00:21:27.000That's just stuff that's happened in the last like four months.
00:21:45.000Because if you made the argument that somebody put out a statement, let's say the statement said vaccines are utterly ineffective, they do nothing, right?
00:21:54.000There are terms of service that prevent you from doing that on most of these major social media outlets.
00:21:59.000But if you say, for example, that there are still open questions with regard to the use of vaccines in children, which there most certainly are, If you say that, is that misinformation?
00:22:09.000It depends on the White House's perspective that day.
00:22:11.000If they wish to push vaccines to children, then the answer is, sure, that's misinformation.
00:22:16.000And if they don't, then presumably that gets to live.
00:22:18.000If you've got the White House dictating what people can and cannot see, that is a violation of the First Amendment, even if they are leveraging private companies into doing it.
00:22:25.000Here is Jen Psaki trying to push this.
00:22:28.000Steps that could be constructive for the public health of the country are providing for Facebook or other platforms to measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation on their platform and the audience it's reaching, also with the public.
00:22:47.000With all of you, to create robust enforcement strategies that bridge their properties and provide transparency about rules.
00:22:54.000You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation out there.
00:23:04.000Does this sound like a centralization of power over freedom of dissemination of information to you?
00:23:08.000And do you trust these people to decide what constitutes misinformation?
00:23:12.000According to these people, the Steele dossier was not misinformation, even though it actually probably was Russian disinformation.
00:23:18.000It was not misinformation, the Steele dossier, but the New York Post printing details about Hunter Biden's laptop was misinformation, according to these.
00:23:24.000So you trust them to determine what information you can see?
00:23:28.000This is a scary, scary thing that they are pushing, and it is the media who are complicit in it.
00:23:32.000The media is worse than the government here.
00:23:33.000We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:23:35.000First, let us talk about a simple fact.
00:24:56.000And this is where the pathetic self-interest of media members, the pathetic, ridiculous anger at the fact that people don't want to watch CNN, but do want to watch shows like this one.
00:25:13.000These ridiculous jackass members of the New York Times editorial board.
00:25:17.000These ridiculous people who work for MSNBC and CNN and who suggest that it should be the job of government to sit over social media and to tell social media when to take down information and not to take down information.
00:25:30.000Are you so short-sighted that you don't see how this will be used against you eventually?
00:25:34.000That if you cross the government, the government will cross you?
00:25:38.000Do you not see that once you've set up this iron matrix between the Between the mainstream media or establishment media and the Democratic Party and social media to suppress information.
00:25:49.000Don't you see how that could flip very easily the other way?
00:25:52.000How if a Republican gets elected president and then you've got right-wing media sources who say that there is disinformation on the platforms and they should use all aspects of power to suppress that quote-unquote disinformation or misinformation.
00:26:03.000Don't you see how that can be used against you?
00:26:12.000And so it is your job to make sure that nobody else is able to disseminate information.
00:26:16.000You over at the New York Times, yes, you've increased your subscriptions because you kept saying Trump over and over and over again for several years now.
00:26:22.000But you guys are afraid that online platforms like mine are coming after you.
00:26:26.000And so you're very happy to watch Facebook, quote unquote, suppress information, even though You're talking about suppressing information that has nothing to do with falsity.
00:26:37.000Okay, the sanguinity, the perfect comfortableness of members of the media pushing suppression of information boggles the mind.
00:26:46.000The founders never would have conceived of this.
00:26:49.000If the founders had known that the greatest expositors of suppression of freedom of information would be members of the press, it would have blown their minds.
00:27:00.000The founders, they got so many things right, but there are a few things that they got wrong.
00:27:04.000One is, they thought, for example, members of Congress would be so ambitious to keep their own power, they would never cede power to the executive branch.
00:27:11.000Members of Congress decided long ago that their job was going to be to vote on omnibus packages, kick everything over to the executive branch, and avoid culpability and responsibility to their own citizens back home.
00:27:22.000The founders thought that ambition would be the real problem.
00:27:25.000It turns out cowardice was the real problem.
00:27:27.000When it comes to the press, the founders felt that when it came to freedom of the press, the threat would come from government.
00:27:32.000They didn't think the threat was going to come from inside the house working with the government.
00:27:36.000They felt that journalists would at least have enough temerity to stand up for fellow members of the press.
00:27:42.000And if members of the press were being targeted by an administration, That the other members of the press would stand up and say no.
00:27:49.000But they didn't believe, presumably, that the members of the press would be actively cheerleading the suppression of information via social media.
00:27:55.000But that's exactly what's happening right now.
00:27:57.000There was an entire CNN panel yesterday in which the panelists were arguing on CNN, right again, an establishment media news network.
00:28:06.000They were arguing that Facebook and social media are polluting the informational environment, polluting it.
00:28:15.000If there are people who are polluting that environment, it's not Facebook's fault any more than it's the river's fault if somebody puts out bad information.
00:28:21.000And if you want to target misinformation, then target the source of the misinformation.
00:28:25.000But this notion that the river itself is responsible for the pollution is nuts.
00:28:32.000I actually took the time to read Dr. Vivek Murthy's report today, the Surgeon General, and I think it will stand up the way the Surgeon General's report in 1962 did about pollution being bad for our health.
00:28:44.000In 1964, the Surgeon General issued a report about how smoking is bad for our health.
00:28:52.000They're polluting the information No, conservatives do not agree with the critique that Paul Begala just made.
00:28:58.000many conservatives agree with this. They're always complaining about big tech. But this is critically important.
00:29:05.000No, conservatives do not agree with the critique that Paul Bogholland just made. Their criticism of big tech is that big tech has become a tool of the establishment media and the government.
00:29:14.000Because you're saying this sort of stuff actively, right?
00:29:17.000Mika Brzezinski and Danny Deutsch did the same routine.
00:29:20.000Again, the goal here is to... There's a reason why they are directing most of their fire not at the people they actually hate, right?
00:29:26.000They're not directing most of their fire at, say, Daily Wire or at Fox News.
00:29:31.000First of all, they can't with regard to Daily Wire and vaccine issues because we are very pro-vaccine generally over at the Daily Wire.
00:29:37.000But even if we weren't, they're not directing their fire there.
00:29:41.000They are directing their fire where they think it is most likely to be responded to.
00:29:44.000They're directing their pressure campaign at the people most likely to collapse, namely the corporate heads of places like Facebook who tend to be somewhat sympathetic to the left-wing position and also are very much afraid of regulation by them.
00:30:36.000If I ran that company, if I was Mark Zuckerberg and I'm worth $100 billion, I don't know, I might go into my pocket a little bit if I can save some lives.
00:31:06.000In those emails was an email from Mark Zuckerberg to Dr. Fauci specifically asking him how they could work together to suppress what they call the misinformation on COVID.
00:31:15.000So Facebook was working with the government on this sort of stuff.
00:31:20.000The goal is not to stop misinformation.
00:31:22.000The goal is to exercise dramatic top-down control over all information that the left does not like.
00:31:28.000They're not, again, they're not hiding the ball on this.
00:31:30.000This is not some sort of giant conspiracy.
00:31:33.000They're saying it directly out in the open.
00:31:35.000Facebook, by the way, said, quote, the fact that more than 2 billion people have viewed authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines on Facebook, which is more than any other place on the Internet.
00:31:43.000More than 3.3 million Americans have also used our vaccine finder tool to find out where and how to get a vaccine.
00:31:48.000The facts show Facebook is helping save lives, period.
00:32:06.000It's not your own garbage positioning on the vaccine.
00:32:09.000It's not your own vacillation and flip-flopping on the vaccine.
00:32:11.000It's not your failures to roll this thing out properly.
00:32:16.000It's not the fact that the federal government withdrew the Johnson & Johnson vaccine from the market after six cases.
00:32:22.000We saw misinformation flowing around COVID-19 from the beginning.
00:32:24.000And we've raised those concerns to these companies.
00:32:26.000And I've spoken about my concerns about misinformation publicly numerous times over the last many months.
00:32:29.000The only thing that matters is top-down control.
00:32:31.000Here's the Surgeon General of the United States forwarding that.
00:32:34.000We saw misinformation flowing around COVID-19 from the beginning.
00:32:38.000And we've raised those concerns to these companies.
00:32:41.000And I've spoken about my concerns about misinformation publicly numerous times over the last many months.
00:32:47.000My concern is that we're not seeing nearly enough progress here.
00:32:51.000And that's one of the reasons I issued this advisory.
00:32:54.000It's not entirely about the tech companies.
00:32:56.000I issued this advisory to call the entire country to action, recognizing there are steps all of us can take.
00:33:01.000Technology companies have an important role, particularly when it comes to being transparent with the public about how much misinformation is flowing on their sites.
00:33:10.000Okay, and then the great and sainted Dr. Fauci, he goes even further.
00:33:13.000So the great and sainted Dr. Fauci, the greatest doctor in America after Dr. Jill Biden, he goes on CNN with Jim Acosta, and ladies, find you a gentleman who loves you like Jim Acosta loves Jim Acosta.
00:33:22.000And he informs people that if there had been social media during the eradication of smallpox and polio, then they never would have been eradicated.
00:33:31.000And as we'll talk about in just one second, that's not true.
00:33:39.000If you look at the extraordinary historic success in eradicating smallpox and eliminating polio for most of the world, and we're on the brink of eradicating polio, if we had had the pushback
00:33:55.000For vaccines, the way we're seeing on certain media, I don't think it would have been possible at all to not only eradicate smallpox, we probably would still have smallpox and we probably would still have polio in this country if we had the kind of false information that's being spread now.
00:34:16.000Okay, so I'll explain why this is completely false.
00:34:44.000Smallpox was so dangerous that it allowed for the first actual vaccination process to take place.
00:34:50.000Because think about how crazy this is.
00:34:51.000The way they used to create vaccines is they would literally take the blood from a person who had had smallpox, and then they would inject it in another person in the hope that the antibodies would transfer.
00:35:00.000They would take the smallpox from one person and give it to another person, and hope the body would fight off the weaker strain.
00:35:35.000Because that's where the most of the danger from COVID lives, right?
00:35:37.000Okay, so this notion that it's about social media as opposed to risk assessment by individuals is completely wrong.
00:35:43.000Now, again, my assessment is that if you are above the age of 21, you have a better shot of dying from COVID than you do of having a serious effect from the vaccine, right?
00:36:14.000In 1955, there's a great piece over at theconversation.com called The Great Polio Vaccine Mess and the Lessons It Holds About Federal Coordination for Today's COVID-19 Vaccination Effort by a guy named Bert Spector, who's an associate professor of international business and strategy at the D.M. Moore McKim School of Business in Northeastern University.
00:36:34.000He points out that immediately following the government licensing of the Salk vaccine, the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis contracted with private drug companies for about $9 million worth of vaccine.
00:36:44.000About 90% of the stock they planned to provide it free to the country's first and second graders.
00:36:48.000But just two weeks after the first doses were administered, the Public Health Service reported six inoculated children had come down with polio.
00:36:55.000And the number of such incidents grew, because it turned out there'd been a botchery.
00:36:58.000A lab had actually not released weakened polio strains in order to generate immunity, they'd actually released basically adulterated doses of the vaccine that included polio.
00:37:09.000So kids were actually being given polio in the original iteration of the vaccine rollout, or at least a certain percentage were.
00:37:17.000Says this professor, after considerable fumbling and outright denial, Surgeon General Leonard Steele pulled all tainted vaccine off the market.
00:37:23.000Then, less than a month after the initial inoculations, the U.S.
00:37:35.000So was that because of social media or what?
00:37:37.000Are you also going to blame social media for that?
00:37:39.000So again, it is not about preventing people from getting bad information about vaccines so much as it is about exercising top-down control.
00:37:47.000That's really what it's about because the Biden administration, they make no bones about this.
00:37:54.000They don't want to see disseminated information.
00:37:57.000I'm very much against vaccine misinformation.
00:38:00.000And if you post something that is overtly false, then it should come down.
00:38:04.000But if you are posting stuff that is arguable, if you are posting stuff that is based in theoretical discussion, if you are posting theories about COVID lab leaks, why would I possibly trust this government to determine what is true and what is false about all of this stuff?
00:38:20.000I mean, the same people who are now declaring that they ought to be the single greatest verifiers of information were providing misinformation about the vaccine from the beginning.
00:38:29.000I mean, you've got Kamala Harris now on board with all this.
00:38:32.000It was Kamala Harris who way back when was saying you shouldn't get the vaccine if it was developed under the Trump administration.
00:38:38.000Here is Kamala Harris not all that long ago.
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00:41:16.000Alrighty, we're gonna get to the actual broader goal here, which again, has nothing to do with COVID and everything to do with control of informational dissemination on a broad level.
00:41:24.000First, let me remind you, again, my newest book, The Authoritarian Moment, is coming on sale next Tuesday, July 27th.
00:41:29.000It is the most important book of the day.
00:41:32.000It goes through how all of our institutions have been weaponized against our freedoms, how they have been weaponized in order to cast you out into the cornfield, and more importantly, how we take back these institutions, which we must, because if we do not, if we do not neutralize institutions, they become weapons of the left, the country is basically finished.
00:41:49.000As you're going to read, there's a lot happening right now, I predict it in this book.
00:41:52.000Everything that's going on right now with the crackdown on social media, Everything from that to the perversion of our education system, it's all talked about in the book.
00:42:00.000You'll want to pick up your copy of The Authoritarian Moment right now to get a sense of what's to come and how we can stop it.
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00:43:44.000And the notion that it is right-wing vaccine hesitancy that's causing the large-scale unvaccination that's happening in the country right now, here's the racial breakdown on vaccination in the United States.
00:43:53.000Asian Americans are vaccinated at a 62% rate.
00:43:55.000White Americans are vaccinated at a 47% rate.
00:43:58.000Hispanic Americans are vaccinated at a 39% rate.
00:44:02.000Black Americans are vaccinated at a 34% rate.
00:44:05.000Is that because Black and Hispanic Americans are in huge numbers, huge, unprecedented numbers, watching Tucker Carlson's show?
00:44:11.000Or because they are accessing bad vaccine information via Facebook?
00:44:31.000Maybe we need a crackdown on misinformation from the New York State government, because obviously they're doing something wrong.
00:44:36.000One third of all health care workers in New York are still unvaccinated in New York City, which was like the epicenter of this thing.
00:44:44.000More than nine months into the campaign to inoculate medical workers and all New Yorkers against the killer bug, nearly a third of staffers at Big Apple hospitals are still unvaccinated.
00:44:51.000Those figures were compiled by the state health department.
00:44:54.000They show nearly 40 percent of hospital staff across three boroughs have either refused or have not received their COVID-19 vaccines.
00:45:01.000Even in hospital-heavy Manhattan, only 76% of workers were vaccinated, matching the statewide average.
00:45:07.000That means one in four medical staffers are still unvaccinated.
00:45:11.000Well, clearly, I mean, this is like the hotbed of right-wing activity that we've been told is responsible for the vast unvaccination of the American public.
00:45:20.000What this is really about, the game is given away by Kara Swisher, who's been pushing for this crap forever.
00:45:24.000Kara Swisher is one of the worst columnists in America.
00:45:26.000She writes for the New York Times, and her sole goal for the past several years has been to push, prod, or beat the living hell out of Facebook into doing what she wants them to do.
00:45:41.000She has a piece today titled, They're Killing People.
00:45:43.000Biden isn't quite right, but he's not wrong.
00:45:47.000It was a stunning thing to say, even if it is in many ways true.
00:45:50.000They're killing people, President Biden said loudly enough to be heard under the roar of his Marine One helicopter idling on the South Lawn of the White House on Friday.
00:45:57.000He was not talking about terrorists or leaders of rogue nations or even gun manufacturers.
00:46:00.000He was talking Silicon Valley tech moguls, most specifically people like Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg, the top two leaders of Facebook and their platform's role in allowing dangerous misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines to spread far and wide.
00:46:13.000The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated.
00:46:17.000Says the New York Times, this message has clearly been coordinated as tensions have increased between the Biden administration and Facebook particularly.
00:46:26.000That had been signaled earlier in the week in a much less stark way by Jen Psaki, Biden's press secretary and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
00:46:32.000Psaki pointed to a public health crisis as a reason to pressure social media companies, which also face difficulty trying to balance concerns about protecting speech with the danger of some misinformation.
00:46:41.000In an interview with me two weeks ago, says Kara Swisher, Biden's chief of staff, Ron Klain, also seemed to be laying the groundwork for putting the blame on Facebook for the administration not reaching its promised goal of 70 percent by July 4th.
00:46:53.000As you might imagine, Facebook did not agree with the characterization.
00:46:56.000The truth, says Kara Swisher, is that Facebook serves as a gateway to both, presenting clearly solid information about COVID, as well as a place where an enormous flood of lies about it has overwhelmed the same zone and for a much longer time.
00:47:07.000Back in May of last year, for example, as noted in the New York Times, there was Plandemic, a 26-minute video alleging a secret group of powerful people were using the virus and the upcoming vaccines to make money and consolidate control over the world.
00:47:35.000Here is Kara Swisher's conclusion, and this gives away the game.
00:47:39.000She says, in this era, the media driver's seat is controlled here and worldwide by Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter, which makes them an easy target for the Biden administration.
00:47:46.000While one could just as easily cast aspersions at the blatantly false Jeremiah ads on Fox News, the reality is that you can't blame individuals either.
00:47:55.000You can't resist social media juggernauts.
00:47:57.000Attempting to stop falsehoods by claiming to offer good information is like using a single sandbag to hold back an impossibly fetid ocean.
00:48:04.000It's like that when it comes to a range of once-anodyne, now-divisive issues, says Kara Swisher, from election integrity to critical race theory to whatever, keeping this country in a constant state of twitchy confusion.
00:48:17.000Wherever it came from, it remains even more prescient.
00:48:19.000Especially now, lives travel much faster thanks to Facebook.
00:48:22.000Kara Swisher, that one sentence is the whole ballgame.
00:49:04.000Okay, we've been pretty hawkish about COVID.
00:49:07.000I'm in favor of people being able to make their own risk assessments based on the proper available information, much of which was suppressed by the Biden administration about, for example, the efficacy of the vaccines in the early days when Dr. Fauci was lying and telling you that wearing a mask was completely necessary even if you were vaccinated.
00:49:24.000And then later he reversed himself, of course.
00:49:47.000How Ben Shapiro is using Facebook to build an empire.
00:49:49.000Now, we've made no secret of the fact that Facebook, as a powerful social media outlet, is one of the places where we push for traffic, just as we do on Instagram, just as we do on YouTube, just as we do on Twitter, just like every company does on all of the major social media outlets.
00:50:05.000But it's bad that we're succeeding, according to NPR.
00:50:07.000That's the problem, and that must be stopped.
00:50:10.000This is a case that's now being astroturfed by a wide variety of sources who have decided that Facebook is deeply embarrassed of the fact that they're suppressing information that we are successful.
00:50:19.000We're not suppressing information that we're successful on Facebook or anywhere else.
00:50:22.000Thank God a lot of people read our site.
00:50:24.000Thank God a lot of people listen to the show and they have every right to do so.
00:50:27.000And did it ever occur to NPR and the journalists who are so all-fire concerned about people viewing our content that they are acting like authoritarian idiots?
00:50:35.000Did it ever occur to them that I have never said that NPR Should we foreclose the ability to disseminate information?
00:51:03.000It's about social media should shut down DailyWire because DailyWire is DailyWire.
00:51:07.000Quote, The conservative podcast host and author's personal Facebook page has more followers than the Washington Post, and he drives an engagement machine unparalleled by anything else on the world's biggest social networking site.
00:51:20.000An NPR analysis of social media data found that over the past year, stories published by the site Shapiro founded, The Daily Wire, received more likes, shares, and comments on Facebook than any other news publisher by a wide margin.
00:51:30.000Even legacy news organizations that have broken major stories or produced groundbreaking investigative work don't come anywhere close.
00:51:38.000Are we hurting your feelings with the fact people like clicking on our headlines?
00:51:41.000Is it hurtful to you that the New York Times, with its, honestly, like the most unreadable headlines in the news business aren't getting clicked upon?
00:51:49.000Maybe you should write readable headlines that people give a crap about.
00:51:54.000Or maybe the reason people are clicking on our site as opposed to the vast panoply of left-wing sites is because there are many, many left-wing sites and like two conservative sites.
00:52:24.000Dailyware articles with headlines like, quote, book review, proof that wokeness is projection by nervous racist white women who can't talk to minorities without elaborate codes, regularly garner tens of thousands of shares for the site.
00:52:34.000And Shapiro is turning that Facebook reach into a rapidly expanding, cost efficient media empire.
00:52:39.000One that experts worry may be furthering polarization in the US.
00:53:25.000Says NPR, again a taxpayer-funded entity, quote, There's a demand among certain subjects of the public for outrage politics, said Jamie Settle, the director of the Social Networks and Political Psychology Lab at the College of William & Mary in Virginia.
00:53:36.000This happens on both the left and right, but the people who do this on the right have just found a lot more successful ways of doing it.
00:53:41.000Because Joe Biden won 80 million votes on the basis that everyone who had disagreed with him was a threat to democracy, and he's still saying it.
00:53:49.000The Daily Wire did not respond to interview requests from NPR for this story.
00:53:54.000You think I don't know your agenda before you start this crap?
00:53:57.000We know your agenda the moment you email us as part of an astroturfed effort to force Facebook into stopping the dissemination of our website.
00:54:25.000The circle of life online means information is written and rewritten in a seemingly infinite loop.
00:54:30.000But, the daily wire has turned anger into an art form and recycled content into a business model.
00:54:34.000Wait, so now the problem isn't that we're lying, and it's not that we're doing anything different from anybody else, it's that we're good at it.
00:54:50.000In May, The Daily Wire generated more Facebook engagement on its articles than The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, and CNN combined.
00:55:03.000People don't like your content, and so they click on the opposite content.
00:55:06.000By the way, if you think the New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, and CNN are having media troubles in terms of, like, people clicking on their sites, this is a complete misread.
00:55:15.000I promise you that all of the sites that you just mentioned have bigger traffic than we do overall.
00:55:20.000Other conservative outlets like The Blaze, Breitbart News, and The Western Journal that publish aggregated and opinion content aimed at invoking outrage have also generally been more successful at generating engagement than legacy news outlets over the past year.
00:55:31.000The success of those outlets on Facebook may also undermine conservatives' oft-repeated claims that social media networks have an anti-conservative bias.
00:55:39.000Okay, well, I mean, I can show you exactly when and where the spigots get turned off on our traffic because we watch it every single day.
00:55:46.000Tracking the amounts of engagement a post or outlet gets on Facebook is not the same thing as tracking the number of people the content actually reaches through the platform.
00:55:54.000In October, Facebook released data showing that the sort of conservative clickbait that performs well in engagement metrics was not actually being seen by as many people as articles from the more mainstream news outlets.
00:56:04.000Okay, so in other words, they're now complaining that people click on our headlines but don't read through to the stories.
00:56:09.000So they're basically now admitting that they still get more traffic than we do.
00:56:12.000But we're still bad, because we exist.
00:56:19.000The company is growing and profitable.
00:56:20.000According to CEO Jeremy Boring, who told Axios earlier this year, the company plans to expand more into entertainment and further build out the Daily Wire's smartphone app.
00:56:28.000While other publications have seen their engagement numbers for Facebook fall off this year, The Daily Wire has stayed fairly constant, according to NPR's analysis.
00:56:34.000I'm depressed by it, but I'm not that surprised, said Settle.
00:56:37.000This has everything to do with the psychology of news consumers and the broader issues with polarization in American culture.
00:56:42.000See, again, the problem is polarization is caused by us existing.
00:57:10.000The articles The Dailyware publishes don't normally include falsehoods.
00:57:14.000And the site says it's committed to truthful, accurate, and ethical reporting.
00:57:17.000But, as Settle explains, by only covering specific stories that bolster the conservative agenda, like negative stories about socialist countries and polarizing stories about race and sexuality issues, and only including certain facts, Readers still come away from the Dailyware's content with the impression Republican politicians can do little wrong and cancel culture is among the nation's greatest threat.
00:57:34.000So in other words, again, this is NPR saying, you're conservative, so you're bad.
00:57:37.000They admit that we are not saying anything false.
00:57:40.000They're just angry that we're conservative.
00:57:43.000By the way, the New York Times only covers specific stories that bolster their narrative.
00:57:47.000They only tell you specific facts that bolster their narrative in the same way we do.
00:57:51.000The difference is we're honest and they're liars.
00:57:52.000They'll tell you their objective and we're conservative.
00:57:57.000An NPR review of stories on the Daily Wire about the COVID-19 pandemic over the past two months found numerous stories about potential side effects from COVID, but none that portrayed the scientifically demonstrated efficacy of the vaccines or which focused explicitly on the hesitancy that has slowed the U.S.
00:58:58.000This piece is a masterclass in the kind of suppression the left wishes to use in social media to shut down your ability to access information.
00:59:17.000I say in the years since he left Breitbart News, Shapiro has carved out a rare niche within the conservative media world.
00:59:22.000The graduate of Harvard Law School taps into many of the same culture war themes that former President Donald Trump played into while also disagreeing with Trump.
00:59:28.000A feat he's managed without becoming a target of the former president's ire, Shapiro has publicly denounced the alt-right and other people in Trump's orbit like Steve Bannon, as well as the conspiracy theory Trump is the rightful winner of the 2020 election.
00:59:39.000But in the same column, I wrote after the violence on January 6th, quote, last week, the Capitol was breached by a group of fringe Trump supporters who had bought into a series of lies.
00:59:47.000But in the same column, he quickly turned his attention back to Democrats and their support of the nationwide Black Lives Matter protests last year, which many conservatives have falsely sought to paint broadly as riots.
00:59:56.000He's been widely condemned for anti-LGBT comments.
01:02:06.000The Biden White House is calling on big tech to censor conservatives for spreading misinformation online.
01:02:12.000A porn star shows up to a conservative student summit that I happen to be at right now.
01:02:17.000And in Los Angeles, the officials are calling on a new mask mandate, even for people who have already been vaccinated with the vaccine that's so effective that you still need that filthy cloth over your face.