In this episode, we discuss the role of corporate money in our political system, and the impact of Citizens United and the deep state. We also discuss how much money is being given to the Democratic Party and the Republican Party by the Fortune 500 companies.
00:00:00.000And when you see the funding, the paper trail of Soros and what he's done with his money, there's plenty of tracking to what he's doing as well.
00:00:07.600What about people on the other hand who are like funding the Trump campaign?
00:00:11.120But to me, the way I would look at that, your counter argument to that would be, what about the fact that Elon Musk spent $250 million to win Pennsylvania?
00:00:25.840I just think Citizens United should be repealed.
00:00:28.080It's crazy that corporations can be so powerful that they can speak more than a human being possibly could, even though, I mean, how much, what's the, how many, before Citizens United, what was the maximum amount of money that a person could donate to a political campaign?
00:01:21.040And then after the Citizens United is passed, you have corporations who are donating millions and millions, if not hundreds of millions, to political campaigns.
00:01:28.840They use that money to then subsidize large-scale advertising campaigns and different PR optics to put themselves in time.
00:04:52.320But I also see that as you're going through this process, when you're going to it, the one thing that is phenomenal to see is the data to show what's going on with it.
00:05:03.040And eventually, Zuck realized he effed up because I think Zuck's play, Rob, when did Zuck come out and talk about the fact when he put that tweet out about Joe Biden and his camp, forced him to take down some content, and the $400 million I regretted, when was that tweet?
00:05:22.680Can you put that tweet and pull it up?
00:05:24.300So this, I'm assuming, goes back to his Joe Rogan podcast where he wore the gray T-shirt and he was like kind of admitting that the Biden administration was pressuring him to take down posts on Facebook related to what he saw as COVID-19 misinformation.
00:06:09.020We're about promoting speech and helping people connect in a safe and secure way.
00:06:13.340As part of this, we regularly hear the governments around the world.
00:06:15.760In 2021, senior officials from the Biden administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our team 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.
00:06:29.820Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take the content down.
00:06:32.580And we own our decision, including COVID-19 related changes we made to our enforcement.
00:06:37.260In the wake of this pressure, I believe the government pressure was wrong.
00:06:39.960And I regret that we were not more outspoken about it.
00:06:42.380I also think we made some choices that, with the benefit of hindsight and new information, we wouldn't have made today.
00:06:47.660Like I said to our teams at the time, I feel strongly that we should not compromise our content standards due to pressure from any administration in either direction.
00:06:54.300And we're ready to push back if something like this happens again.
00:06:56.760In a separate situation, the FBI warned us about a potential Russia disinformation operation about the Biden family and Burisma in the end of the 2020 election that fall when we thought it was in a New York Post.
00:07:07.220So he's explaining that they effed up, right?
00:07:40.520I think that's a constructive Tiananmen Square moment for so many people who are critical of the vaccine and lockdown mandates.
00:07:45.840Because whenever you're banned from a social media platform, your first logical next step is I'm banned because I'm speaking the truth.
00:07:54.820Not I'm banned because I'm propagating misinformation that's going to be harmful to people.
00:07:59.120You think if the establishment, if a large social media company takes little old me's page down for expressing my First Amendment right and saying my opinion about the Moderna vaccine or something like that, whether it's right or wrong, you feel that you are an anti-establishment person who is inherently telling the truth that's being censored by the greater machine.
00:08:18.380And so someone like Trump comes along and he's seen by them as being like the arbiter of truth and justice.
00:08:23.880And so Mark Zuckerberg and all those people during 2020 who colluded to de-platform people are paying for their mistakes big time.
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