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00:01:11.000There's lots of things I'm thankful for, but one of the great developments this last year was Elon Musk purchasing Twitter.
00:01:18.000They were naysayers and people that were very negative.
00:01:21.000Like, oh, Charlie, he's not going to do anything.
00:01:24.000There were a lot of doubters out there.
00:01:27.000But we now have seen that Elon Musk did this for a reason because he does believe in freedom of speech.
00:01:34.000And I am honored to welcome home from the prisoner of war of Twitter.
00:01:38.000Consider this to be their kind of welcome back ceremony as kind of when Donald Trump met the prisoners from North Korea, or I think it was North Korea, on the tarmac when they returned home.
00:01:52.000ALX and Savannah Hernandez have been let out of Twitter jail after a very long sentence.
00:01:58.000Welcome back to the free world of Twitter, guys.
00:02:04.000Savannah, how long were you in Twitter jail?
00:02:06.000I was in Twitter jail for two years, and I had a triple ban, Charlie, because my first ban was, you know, it came after Donald Trump retweeted me back in 2020.
00:02:15.000And then they came up with the excuse of ban evasion, despite me never having any other accounts, any suspensions, any bans.
00:02:22.000And then I made two more accounts after that, which were subsequently deleted.
00:03:21.000So ALX, let's talk about the political and broad implication of this.
00:03:26.000And then Savannah, I want to get your thoughts on this.
00:03:28.000You know, for some of our listeners, they don't use Twitter and they think Twitter is irrelevant, but it really is the incubator of elite thought.
00:03:35.000It is the place where ideas kind of are formed and then they spread to the rest of society through newspapers and other forms of media.
00:03:44.000And now ALX, Elon has done what he said he was going to do.
00:03:56.000So a lot of people don't understand how much Twitter does actually control the news cycle.
00:04:02.000I was having a conversation with some family members who don't use Twitter, but they don't understand how it does impact what they see and read.
00:04:10.000They read their news from online newspapers or even physical newspapers.
00:04:16.000However, most of those stories start from journalists who are on Twitter.
00:04:20.000So even if you aren't a person who uses Twitter, you're getting your information from someone else who is reporting it from Twitter.
00:04:29.000So what this means is now the leftists are no longer going to control the agenda and the trending topics.
00:05:20.000So Charlie, I'd like to actually use my own two past banned Twitter accounts as an example of how I was able to combat the narrative.
00:05:27.000So after my original account was banned for also as well, my reporting on the Black Lives Matter riots of 2020, which per CNN were fiery, but mostly peaceful.
00:05:37.000You know, a lot of major news organizations linked back to my footage of white Antifa members shutting down the highway and stopping a black father from going to work to provide for his children in the name of Black Lives Matter.
00:05:49.000You went and you read that article over the past two years and there was no video to link to it.
00:05:53.000So, you know, who's to say if that story was even true?
00:05:56.000The second account that I got deleted was because I went and I exposed how the athletes, the female athletes at the 2022 NCAA Women's Swimming Championships were not happy that biological male Leah Thomas was swimming against them.
00:06:08.000The entire media was trying to say, oh, this was a great thing.
00:06:11.000The athletes are not upset about it at all.
00:07:01.000Everything is doing great with our economy.
00:07:03.000Another one of the segments that I do is I go to minority communities when Joe Biden tweets out about how well the economy is doing or how gas prices are lowering.
00:07:11.000I go and I ask the actual Americans who are affected by this to give their response to President Joe Biden.
00:07:18.000And those videos always go viral because they completely combat the fake propaganda that our own American government is pushing out on the people.
00:07:24.000So that is why censorship gone from Twitter now is so important because it allows the American people to actually have a voice and to push back against the government propaganda that we are consistently being fed.
00:07:36.000We're not trying to shape a narrative here.
00:07:39.000And the people are hungry for the truth.
00:07:41.000That's why footage like mine is so popular because the American people just want to have their voices heard.
00:07:46.000And Elon Musk had to spend $44 billion to make that happen.
00:07:50.000It's one of the great expenditures in American history.
00:07:53.000I want to play a piece of tape here, just give you an idea of kind of one of the freaks that just got fired from Twitter, PlayCut 100.
00:08:00.000I'm demanding an apology from Elon Musk.
00:08:03.000Last week, I lost my position to Twitter working as a senior fact checker, which I had been doing for five years, making sure that misinformation did not reach the public that could potentially damage our democracy.
00:08:17.000And I was told that the reason I was fired is because I had labeled a story about Hillary Clinton misinformation.
00:08:24.000Now, this story was a story about how Hillary Clinton had smashed her phone with a hammer to hide 30,000 emails.
00:08:32.000Now, I labeled that story misinformation because Hillary Clinton did not personally smash her phone with a hammer.
00:08:39.000She asked, she requested that her aide smash her phone with a hammer.
00:08:45.000These are two totally different scenarios.
00:08:48.000And I was simply pointing out that Hillary Clinton did not smash the phone with a hammer.
00:08:53.000She asked somebody else to smash her phone with a hammer.
00:08:55.000Therefore, the story about her smashing her phone to hide evidence is misinformation.
00:08:59.000There's no way that that has to be parody, ALX.
00:09:04.000Yeah, I was going to say that has to be fair.
00:09:07.000I don't even think that Twitter actually has fact checkers.
00:09:09.000I know they have like their misinformation team or whatever.
00:09:13.000But I mean, half these people crying about getting fired too, half of them are getting like three months of basically paid free vacation.
00:09:21.000I mean, I don't know why any of these people would be complaining.
00:09:24.000Plus, he gave them the option too, instead of getting fired, it's like, okay, you're getting off for free for basically three months and you're getting paid.
00:09:33.000So that was really smart, actually, by the one because he's just like naturally weeding out anyone who doesn't want to work hard.
00:09:40.000So there are probably people like that, but yeah, I think that's parody.
00:09:44.000The fact we can't tell shows exactly what it's exactly the problem with what's going on at Twitter in more ways than one.
00:09:52.000Everybody, email us your thoughts, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:09:55.000We're going to continue with Servanna, Savannah Hernandez and ALX at ALX.
00:09:59.000And then what, Savannah, what's your Twitter handle?
00:12:30.000That's a lot of pump and circumstances.
00:12:32.000I mean, we should make fun of them, Savannah, but there's blood on their hands for they suppressed early treatments about ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine.
00:12:42.000I mean, there's these people did a lot of evil.
00:12:45.000I want to make sure that that is communicated.
00:12:47.000These Twitter soy boys with not an ounce of testosterone in sight, they did evil for society, Savannah.
00:12:55.000Let's not forget about the suppression of the New York Post story about Hunter Biden's laptop.
00:12:59.000Many people said, because they did run a poll, hey, if you knew about this before the election, do you think you might have voted differently?
00:13:05.000To which many people responded, yeah, I would have liked to have known this information.
00:13:09.000So to say that they were involved as well in suppressing information ahead of our election, involved in suppressing information regarding COVID-19.
00:13:17.000We also had that article come out about the intercept or from the intercept about how the DHS was working to quell misinformation about the withdrawal of Afghanistan, COVID-19, basically all of the government corruption that the American people should be allowed to question and call out.
00:13:32.000You know, the DHS was working alongside Twitter to go ahead and silence that and make sure the American public had no idea what was going on.
00:13:39.000So it is such a beautiful thing now to see that we, again, are able to share the truth, share both sides.
00:13:45.000And the best thing too is, you know, these people on the left still have a platform to share whatever they want.
00:14:20.000Yeah, so just on that tape, too, I think it's sad how they're talking about how long they've been there.
00:14:25.000I've been here for nine years, four years, whatever.
00:14:28.000So that shows me that they didn't actually work while they were there because the only thing was, hey, are you willing to work hard?
00:14:36.000So basically, they heard that and they're ready to give up their entire careers or whatever they did there.
00:14:42.000So that just shows that they didn't work hard.
00:14:44.000And number two, to your point about the suppression of information, why didn't they censor the WHO when they said there's no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of COVID?
00:14:54.000That tweet is still up with no indicators, no markers, no fact checks.
00:14:58.000That's still up there while they censored everyone else for whatever like actual information that they were spreading, whether it be about vaccines or treatments.
00:15:08.000But yeah, the playing field is about to get a whole lot more level.
00:15:11.000There's already a million votes on Elon's new poll.
00:15:15.000Currently, it's 78 to 26, I believe, that people are going to reinstate all banned accounts.
00:15:23.000So yeah, the playing field is about to get a whole lot more level.
00:15:29.000If I could jump in too, just to Alex's point, keep in mind as well that Elon Musk has been running Twitter for a couple of weeks now, and he's already put child sexual abuse material at the forefront.
00:15:39.000And that's been pretty much eradicated off of the platform.
00:15:41.000We have to ask the question: these employees who have been there for years on years, why did they not make this a priority?
00:15:46.000And why was Elon Musk able to clean this up in a matter of weeks?
00:16:02.000Yeah, so do you know what's interesting is that their AI is able to detect memes and they can take down memes, but they can't detect exploitative material of children and illegal content.
00:16:31.000And also, yeah, there's two active lawsuits against Twitter right now where the Twitter actually reviewed like children that were complaining that there were their images on there.
00:16:43.000And Twitter denied them the right to have it taken down.
00:16:46.000And basically they had to go to law enforcement to get a ticket.
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00:19:18.000He seemed like a boy genius and all of those classic things.
00:19:22.000He got a lot of funding from venture capitalists and founded this exchange.
00:19:27.000His purpose in founding the exchange appears to be to have made a lot of money so that he could give it away as part of something that is called effective altruism.
00:19:38.000And that's the kind of philosophy he was engaged in.
00:19:42.000This apparently came from his parents who were very into utilitarianism.
00:19:56.000So they had their own proprietary digital coin on that exchange that could be used to buy services and things of that nature and could be traded and had its own value.
00:20:13.000So FTX, very large cryptocurrency exchange, very successful, had a rival in a company called Binance, which was founded by a Chinese CEO.
00:20:26.000And Binance held a lot of assets in FTT.
00:20:32.000So they had a lot of FTT and they decided a couple weeks ago that they were going to sell most of their FTT.
00:20:41.000The CEO of Binance announced that on Twitter, that they were going to sell their coin and then set about doing that.
00:20:49.000Set off a little bit of a chain reaction.
00:20:51.000Other people were like, oh, if Binance is selling all of their crypto coin that is, you know, proprietary to FTX, maybe we should sell ours as well.
00:21:01.000So that resulted, that sale by Binance of their FTT portfolio resulted in a bit of a cash crunch for FTX.
00:21:16.000So part of what was going on was that Binance recognized some concerns with regard to the value of FTT and became concerned about, you know, whether or not it was actually worth what it was purported to be worth.
00:21:32.000Part of their concern was that FTT was a large part of the assets of another company called Alameda Research.
00:21:43.000This company was helmed by Sam Bankman Fried's girlfriend, Carolyn Ellison.
00:21:50.000They were all hanging out in the Bahamas, apparently having a great time doing all of this, you know, finance stuff.
00:21:58.000So Alameda had a huge amount of assets in FTT.
00:22:04.000This made Binance concerned because it seemed to be propping up the value of FTT, making Binance concerned that FTT was not actually worth what it appeared to be worth, because in fact, part of what made it appear to have value was Alameda's holdings of it, which in fact were just because Bankman Fried was also a founder of Alameda.
00:22:38.000So after Binance decided to get rid of a bunch of their FTT, Bankman Fried had a cash crunch at FTX and went to other cryptocurrencies to say, hey, we kind of need a bailout, right?
00:22:54.000And it's important when you're really talking about cryptocurrency and when you're talking about these exchanges and all of these kinds of things, it's very important to remember that we have seen all of this before.
00:23:08.000All of these figures, you know, Sam Bankman Fried has similarities to JP Morgan Chase back in the 19 early 1900s, the banking industry prior to regulation, securities industries, all of this.
00:23:55.000So after, and I know this is a little in the weeds, but after Binance got rid of their stuff and FTX needed a bailout, Binance offered to do the bailout.
00:24:08.000And then they took a look at the books.
00:24:57.000It also turned out that FTX was funneling a bunch of money to Alameda to prop up Alameda.
00:25:03.000And the two companies were kind of, it looks like, playing a bit of shell game, propping up each other's value, while actually there was nothing holding that value to anything, anything tangible.
00:25:17.000So he surrounded himself with reputable figureheads from the world of finance, including former regulators that feel so much like, oh, goodness, what's her name?
00:25:26.000The woman that just went is going to jail.
00:25:57.000And cryptocurrency regulation is still in, you know, it's sort of in its infancy here in the U.S., but this kind of company could not exist under current U.S. regulatory law, from what I understand.
00:26:13.000Mostly I understand this from my mom, who is a retired securities lawyer, who used to tell me about securities law while we rode chairlifts going skiing.
00:26:40.000So, but then here's the other part of it that doesn't make sense is that, I mean, some people estimated Bankman Freed's wealth to be near $30 or $40 billion.
00:26:50.000Now they say it's worth almost nothing.
00:26:53.000I mean, so he was almost supporting this family of companies, Alameda with some of the money from FTX, and all around what seemed to be a hyper-political agenda.
00:27:05.000He pledged a billion dollars to try to defeat Trump in 2024.
00:27:10.000He was the second largest donor of the midterm cycle for Democrats, if I'm not mistaken.
00:27:17.000Yet, if a company goes from being worth $30 billion to nothing in the span of a couple of weeks, it probably wasn't worth much at all.
00:27:26.000And so how is it possible that this went largely undetected for as long as it did?
00:27:36.000Yeah, I think it went largely undetected because Sam Bankman Fried had everybody fooled into believing that he was this amazing boy genius, altruistic, brilliant tech guy.
00:27:48.000You know, this is a narrative that we have seen play out in the U.S. again and again.
00:28:12.000Once you have somebody funneling you all this money and telling you you're spectacular, a lot of people don't stop to ask the really important questions.
00:28:21.000And we've seen candidates or politicians at this point trying to distance themselves from him and from the money that he gave their campaigns.
00:28:32.000We've seen people trying to donate that money elsewhere just so that they don't have to feel that their hands are dirty with it.
00:28:39.000Of course, their hands are dirty with it.
00:28:41.000We also see that Bankman Fried had a foundation.
00:29:02.000Gave money to research into AI and concerns about, you know, AI and humanity and what that was about.
00:29:12.000But he also gave a lot of money to some media outlets, media outlets that are pretty reputable at this point, including recently Semaphore, which is a recent addition, and a Reuters article from October, which is right around when they launched, talks about the money that this foundation run by Bankman Fried and his brother gave this money to Semaphore.
00:29:36.000They gave money to Vox, ProPublica, the Intercept, and I think something called the Law and Justice Project.
00:29:43.000I might not have the exact phrasing right on what they're called.
00:29:48.000And it's easy to see if you go to these websites and you look up who their donors are.
00:30:50.000Crypto investing is not for the faint of heart.
00:30:54.000I mean, there's got to be, I mean, there's laws for fraud.
00:30:57.000I mean, there's law, I mean, there are laws where you can't misrepresent a commercial transaction, right?
00:31:03.000So if it's true that Bankman Fried even took $1,000 under false pretenses for himself, I mean, it doesn't take, I mean, they're trying to prosecute Donald Trump for having memorabilia.
00:31:40.000As FTX is in bankruptcy proceedings in Delaware, one of the people who is involved, I think he took over and is managing the bankruptcy of the company, was also involved in the whole Enron situation and closing out Enron.
00:32:10.000He said that the numbers that show up on the FTX balance sheet were constructed when Bankman Fried was the CEO of the company, which he no longer is.
00:32:21.000And this guy says he doesn't trust those numbers.
00:33:35.000Yeah, I think that that's really a shame.
00:33:37.000I think he must have just fooled everyone entirely.
00:33:39.000One thing that's interesting in terms of when you talk about JP Morgan Chase, who I think in 1907 put together a fund to help banks, help bail out banks if necessary.
00:33:51.000That's something that the Binance CEO is doing.
00:33:53.000And when he said that he would not bail out FTX, he decided to get together with some other cryptocurrencies and put together a fund that would help bail out crypto exchanges if they needed it.
00:34:05.000So I don't think it's Bankman Fried at all who's the JP Morgan Chase.
00:34:10.000I think it's probably this other guy who runs Binance who's a lot closer to that estimation.