1 00:00:04,879 --> 00:00:05,599 Speaker 1: What's going on? 2 00:00:05,759 --> 00:00:08,119 Speaker 2: Thank you so much for listening to this podcast. It 3 00:00:08,240 --> 00:00:10,080 is heard live every day from noon to three on 4 00:00:10,240 --> 00:00:11,919 WBT Radio in Charlotte. 5 00:00:11,960 --> 00:00:14,039 Speaker 1: And if you want exclusive. 6 00:00:13,480 --> 00:00:16,800 Speaker 2: Content like invitations to events, the weekly live stream, my 7 00:00:16,879 --> 00:00:19,239 daily show prep with all the links, become a patron, 8 00:00:19,320 --> 00:00:22,640 go to vpeteclendarshow dot com make sure you hit the 9 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:25,160 subscribe button. Get every episode for free right to your 10 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:27,679 smartphone or tablet. And again, thank you so much for 11 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:31,559 your support. Pete Calendar here, that's k A L I 12 00:00:31,760 --> 00:00:35,479 N E r h E r E. It's not part 13 00:00:35,479 --> 00:00:37,000 of my last name, though, but I feel like it 14 00:00:37,039 --> 00:00:38,920 almost sounds like it is because I always say Pete 15 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:42,200 Calendar here because of course, like I'm here, But I 16 00:00:42,200 --> 00:00:46,439 feel like that because my last name is it's unusual, 17 00:00:46,520 --> 00:00:48,960 let's say, which actually cuts down on the stalking. 18 00:00:49,039 --> 00:00:50,240 Speaker 1: So maybe I'll stop spelling. 19 00:00:50,320 --> 00:00:52,200 Speaker 2: Well, no, I can't, because in order to email me, 20 00:00:52,240 --> 00:00:55,039 you need to know my last name Pete at Vpete 21 00:00:55,079 --> 00:00:58,679 calendarshow dot com. Although I did get the URL for 22 00:00:59,200 --> 00:01:08,159 the Pete podh uh huh. Also the Pete cast, I 23 00:01:08,159 --> 00:01:10,159 don't know. I go back it all routes to the 24 00:01:10,159 --> 00:01:13,159 Pete Calendar Show but because the last name. I also 25 00:01:13,200 --> 00:01:17,439 bought Pete Calendar, like c A L E N d 26 00:01:17,599 --> 00:01:20,519 A R because so many people misspell the name. Anyway, 27 00:01:20,879 --> 00:01:22,560 it all routes to the same site. But if you 28 00:01:22,560 --> 00:01:24,400 want to email, it's Pete at the Pete Calendar show. 29 00:01:24,719 --> 00:01:28,439 So Donald Trump actually addressed this. Let me see, do 30 00:01:28,480 --> 00:01:29,480 I have the clip here? 31 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:30,040 Speaker 1: I do? 32 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:36,359 Speaker 2: So Donald Trump had a news conference it ran I 33 00:01:36,359 --> 00:01:39,799 think over an hour or so down at mar a Lago. 34 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:43,120 Fielded a whole bunch of questions on all sorts of stuff, 35 00:01:43,879 --> 00:01:49,120 and he was asked about Meta Facebook, right, Meta or 36 00:01:49,200 --> 00:01:52,879 Facebook's parent company called themselves. 37 00:01:52,439 --> 00:01:54,680 Speaker 1: Meta now and not now. 38 00:01:54,920 --> 00:01:56,599 Speaker 2: It's that's been a while, a couple of years since 39 00:01:56,599 --> 00:01:59,560 they've done that, which to me, I hate. I just 40 00:01:59,560 --> 00:02:01,560 hate saying the word because I always feel like I 41 00:02:01,599 --> 00:02:03,799 have to say, like Meta Metta. 42 00:02:04,200 --> 00:02:06,120 Speaker 1: I don't know why. It just sounds weird. It's a 43 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:06,959 weird sounding name. 44 00:02:06,959 --> 00:02:12,919 Speaker 2: Anyway, Meta announced and by Meta I mean the AI 45 00:02:13,039 --> 00:02:14,479 guy Zuckerberg. 46 00:02:15,080 --> 00:02:16,199 Speaker 1: Dude's totally AI. 47 00:02:16,879 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 2: So he did a like a hostage video kind of 48 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:23,560 a thing where he's staring at a camera, you know, 49 00:02:23,719 --> 00:02:26,360 in a weird like office or something, I think, and 50 00:02:26,599 --> 00:02:29,479 he is saying that they are no longer going to 51 00:02:29,560 --> 00:02:34,719 be using these third party fact checkers. I'm putting that 52 00:02:34,800 --> 00:02:39,479 in air quotes, the third party fact checkers. They're now 53 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:46,199 going to copy Twitter with the community notes. Have you 54 00:02:46,240 --> 00:02:50,080 ever seen these things? If you're not on Twitter and 55 00:02:50,159 --> 00:02:52,560 you're well, I would say you should join Twitter just 56 00:02:52,599 --> 00:02:53,240 to follow me. 57 00:02:53,680 --> 00:02:56,479 Speaker 1: At Pete Callander. Okay, a l I any r, but 58 00:02:56,800 --> 00:02:58,039 you should, so you should do that. 59 00:02:59,680 --> 00:03:03,879 Speaker 2: But on Twitter they implemented this system called community notes. 60 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,080 And what it does is that it's open for I 61 00:03:07,120 --> 00:03:09,360 don't know certain people, but you got to get approved. 62 00:03:09,879 --> 00:03:19,360 I am approved as an official community note or notarian notary. 63 00:03:19,840 --> 00:03:20,280 Speaker 1: I don't know. 64 00:03:20,599 --> 00:03:25,000 Speaker 2: I get to help do fact checks basically, but it's 65 00:03:25,000 --> 00:03:26,240 open to a lot of people. 66 00:03:27,360 --> 00:03:29,919 Speaker 1: I think you can apply. It's free, it's whatever. 67 00:03:31,159 --> 00:03:35,919 Speaker 2: And somebody posts something like, let's say Donald Trump is 68 00:03:35,960 --> 00:03:40,479 an agent of the Russians, right, and then I, as 69 00:03:40,520 --> 00:03:46,360 a community notre or notary, I could put a community 70 00:03:46,479 --> 00:03:50,439 note onto that tweet. But nobody sees it unless they 71 00:03:50,479 --> 00:03:55,919 are fellow notarians. Okay, And if enough of the notarians 72 00:03:56,560 --> 00:03:59,400 rate it, they give it a thumbs up basically, and 73 00:03:59,599 --> 00:04:02,439 you gotta they give you some reasons why you're you know, 74 00:04:02,479 --> 00:04:04,919 you're agreeing or disagreeing or whatever like helpful or not 75 00:04:04,960 --> 00:04:07,479 helpful kind of thing. And once it gets voted up 76 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,960 by a certain amount, then it gets it becomes visible 77 00:04:13,120 --> 00:04:17,079 for everybody to see, and now your tweet is permanently 78 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:21,759 tagged with this community note that says you're lying basically, 79 00:04:23,040 --> 00:04:28,639 and so it has helped for the user base to 80 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:34,160 correct miss and disinformation. That's how Twitter has gone about 81 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,639 doing their their fact checking quote unquote. They're relying on 82 00:04:37,759 --> 00:04:42,680 the people with their use of free speech to fact 83 00:04:42,800 --> 00:04:46,759 check rather than the what was it the Twitter Safety 84 00:04:46,800 --> 00:04:51,600 Committee or whatever it was, Yeah, where their or their 85 00:04:51,639 --> 00:04:55,759 Trust and Safety project whatever that they were using where 86 00:04:55,759 --> 00:04:56,800 they would censor people. 87 00:04:57,240 --> 00:04:59,959 Speaker 1: And this all came out remember in the Twitter file. 88 00:05:00,000 --> 00:05:07,079 Speaker 2: All the okay, right, Like this all came out when 89 00:05:07,240 --> 00:05:09,839 they got a hold of all of the internal emails 90 00:05:09,839 --> 00:05:14,120 when Elon Musk bought Twitter, and then they started Matt Tayibi, 91 00:05:14,240 --> 00:05:20,199 Michael Schellenberger, I think that was there may have been 92 00:05:20,199 --> 00:05:23,920 a couple a couple other journalists that started combing through 93 00:05:23,959 --> 00:05:27,680 all of this stuff and laying out the operation that 94 00:05:27,839 --> 00:05:32,399 came from the Democrat Party, the White House, the administration. 95 00:05:32,560 --> 00:05:38,120 It came from government agencies, right the alphabet agencies, intelligence 96 00:05:38,199 --> 00:05:40,720 community members and stuff, and it was sort of a 97 00:05:40,759 --> 00:05:47,279 backdoor censorship model fascism. Basically, it was this facade of freedom, 98 00:05:47,519 --> 00:05:50,680 a facade of free enterprise, a facade of free speech, 99 00:05:51,199 --> 00:05:54,839 but behind the scenes not so much. That's how the 100 00:05:55,000 --> 00:05:59,439 Hunter Biden laptop story got suppressed. It got censored, was 101 00:05:59,519 --> 00:06:07,319 through this this mechanism. So Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook or 102 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,519 the Facebook, he comes out and he says, we are 103 00:06:10,560 --> 00:06:15,120 going to get back to our roots and focus on 104 00:06:16,720 --> 00:06:21,920 rating the attractiveness of co ed's in college. 105 00:06:22,240 --> 00:06:26,160 Speaker 1: That's our roots for Facebook. No. 106 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:29,360 Speaker 2: No, he said, they're going to focus on reducing mistakes, 107 00:06:29,519 --> 00:06:34,319 simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms. 108 00:06:36,120 --> 00:06:39,120 He posted this video this morning. He said, more specifically, 109 00:06:39,240 --> 00:06:42,040 we're going to get rid of fact checkers and replace 110 00:06:42,079 --> 00:06:47,680 them with community notes similar to x or Twitter. Starting 111 00:06:47,879 --> 00:06:52,079 in the US, Meta's chief Global affairs Officer, Joel Kaplan 112 00:06:52,399 --> 00:06:56,920 was on Fox News channels Fox and Friends, and he 113 00:06:57,000 --> 00:07:02,519 discussed the changes in an exclusive interview. Meta's third party 114 00:07:02,680 --> 00:07:05,199 fact checking program was put in place after the twenty 115 00:07:05,240 --> 00:07:10,720 sixteen election and was used to manage content and misinformation 116 00:07:10,920 --> 00:07:14,959 on its platforms, largely due to quote political pressure, executives said, 117 00:07:15,439 --> 00:07:21,199 but admitted that the system has quote gone too far. Really, 118 00:07:21,800 --> 00:07:27,199 who could have ever expected that? Caplin told Fox News Digital. 119 00:07:27,279 --> 00:07:31,439 Quote we went to independent, third party fact checkers. It 120 00:07:31,480 --> 00:07:35,279 has become clear there is too much political bias in 121 00:07:35,360 --> 00:07:38,680 what they choose to fact check, because basically they get 122 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:43,120 to fact check whatever they see on the platform. He said, 123 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:48,160 Meta is ending that completely. So what is what do 124 00:07:48,240 --> 00:07:52,360 the fact checkers have to say about this? So one 125 00:07:52,360 --> 00:07:57,720 of the fact checkers was PolitiFact. You've heard of them. 126 00:07:58,839 --> 00:08:02,199 There isn't a what I dare say. Virtually every single 127 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:07,800 Republican at a national level has had some brush with 128 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:14,959 the dumb assary of PolitiFact. PolitiFact that finds every nuance 129 00:08:15,040 --> 00:08:19,160 they could find in order to absolve any Democrat of 130 00:08:20,399 --> 00:08:23,399 the four pinocchios or pants on fire ratings and that 131 00:08:23,519 --> 00:08:27,439 sort of thing. Meanwhile divining the worst of intentions and 132 00:08:27,519 --> 00:08:30,800 dissuming the worst motives of all Republicans and nitpicking. Well, 133 00:08:30,839 --> 00:08:34,159 he said this, but it's actually this, plus this tiny 134 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:38,279 little other thing. They find all these ways to construct 135 00:08:38,960 --> 00:08:45,399 their examination to drop the hammer on conservatives and give 136 00:08:45,440 --> 00:08:51,000 a pass to the left, and Republicans know this. Conservatives 137 00:08:51,039 --> 00:08:53,440 recognize this. This is why they don't trust these types 138 00:08:53,440 --> 00:09:00,919 of ratings. So PolitiFact. This is from Aaron Sharonackmann. He 139 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:05,840 is the executive director of PolitiFact. Politifacts says the decision 140 00:09:05,919 --> 00:09:10,559 to remove independent journalists from Facebook's content moderation program in 141 00:09:10,559 --> 00:09:13,960 the US has nothing to do with free speech or censorship. 142 00:09:14,399 --> 00:09:18,679 Mark Zuckerberg's decision could not be less subtle. PolitiFact is 143 00:09:18,679 --> 00:09:21,919 one of the five original partners who worked with Facebook 144 00:09:22,080 --> 00:09:24,559 to launch a fact checking program in the United States 145 00:09:24,600 --> 00:09:28,360 after December or in December twenty sixteen, and our journalists 146 00:09:28,519 --> 00:09:30,919 have worked on the project for more than eight years, 147 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:36,039 publishing thousands of fact checks in that time. Once again, 148 00:09:37,080 --> 00:09:42,000 note what Facebook said. Facebook said that, or the yeah 149 00:09:42,000 --> 00:09:46,679 this guy Kaplan said that there's too much political bias 150 00:09:46,679 --> 00:09:50,320 in what they choose to fact check, and that is 151 00:09:50,399 --> 00:09:57,240 exactly correct. I have been saying this for years. You're 152 00:09:57,240 --> 00:09:59,720 never a prophet in your own land, you know. But anyway, 153 00:10:00,000 --> 00:10:04,200 I've been saying this for years that the fact checkers 154 00:10:04,519 --> 00:10:07,879 pick and choose. That's where the bias usually occurs. It 155 00:10:08,000 --> 00:10:11,600 is where the people sit around and decide. This is 156 00:10:11,639 --> 00:10:14,600 a lie that's worth checking. But I didn't even hear 157 00:10:14,600 --> 00:10:16,679 about this other lie over there, told by a person 158 00:10:16,720 --> 00:10:19,639 that I like, because they just don't consume media that 159 00:10:21,639 --> 00:10:25,320 would ever put that lie onto their radar, right, And 160 00:10:25,399 --> 00:10:28,440 so therein lies the bias. So they end up finding 161 00:10:28,480 --> 00:10:31,600 all the lies that the right tails and none of 162 00:10:31,600 --> 00:10:34,519 the lies that the left tells. 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Anyway, they did a third party 192 00:12:25,919 --> 00:12:28,600 fact checking program in the twenty right after the twenty 193 00:12:28,679 --> 00:12:32,679 sixteen election, and they say it went too far, the 194 00:12:32,720 --> 00:12:37,559 third party fact checkers. It became too became clear, there's 195 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:40,360 too much political bias in what they choose to fact 196 00:12:40,399 --> 00:12:42,960 check because basically they get to fact check whatever they 197 00:12:42,960 --> 00:12:46,279 see on the platform. Okay, so that's the that's what. 198 00:12:46,279 --> 00:12:48,279 What's this guy's name, Caplan? 199 00:12:48,360 --> 00:12:48,600 Speaker 1: Mark? 200 00:12:48,799 --> 00:12:54,159 Speaker 2: No, not Mark now whatever? Something Kaplan? Oh, Joel Kaplan. 201 00:12:54,279 --> 00:12:57,159 He has met his chief global affairs officer. So Donald 202 00:12:57,159 --> 00:12:59,440 Trump at his press conference was asked about this, and 203 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:00,600 here's how that went. 204 00:13:02,279 --> 00:13:03,879 Speaker 1: On the post on its website. 205 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,879 Speaker 2: Meta said today it was not putting fact checks on 206 00:13:08,120 --> 00:13:09,240 which website. 207 00:13:08,840 --> 00:13:10,600 Speaker 1: And it was a lot of community. 208 00:13:10,960 --> 00:13:13,600 Speaker 2: I watched their news conference and I thought it was 209 00:13:13,639 --> 00:13:15,960 a very good news conference. I think they've honestly, I 210 00:13:16,000 --> 00:13:17,200 think they've come him a long way. 211 00:13:17,240 --> 00:13:20,159 Speaker 1: Meta Facebook. I think they've come a long way. I 212 00:13:20,200 --> 00:13:22,399 watched it. The man was very impressive. I watched it, 213 00:13:22,519 --> 00:13:23,799 actually I watched it on Fox. 214 00:13:23,840 --> 00:13:26,879 Speaker 2: I'm not allowed to say that. Do you think he 215 00:13:26,960 --> 00:13:29,200 would directly responding to the threats that you've made to 216 00:13:29,279 --> 00:13:30,600 him in the past? Probably? 217 00:13:31,200 --> 00:13:38,799 Speaker 1: Probably, do you? 218 00:13:38,960 --> 00:13:42,279 Speaker 2: He said, do you think that he means Zuckerberg? Do 219 00:13:42,320 --> 00:13:45,279 you think he's responding to threats that you have made 220 00:13:45,320 --> 00:13:48,960 against him in the past? And Trump says it probably 221 00:13:53,320 --> 00:13:57,840 because the Trump you know is like, that's right, I 222 00:13:57,960 --> 00:14:01,720 made the threat and he caved. Hmm, Alpha Mal, you 223 00:14:01,759 --> 00:14:06,360 know like that's but this is the language these guys speak, 224 00:14:06,399 --> 00:14:09,679 these business guys. And look, Zuckerberg is not a fool, 225 00:14:10,519 --> 00:14:15,039 He's not. He's a smart guy, right, so he knows 226 00:14:14,799 --> 00:14:17,759 what which way the wind is blowing here. And with 227 00:14:18,200 --> 00:14:22,799 the Trump administration coming in, you're gonna have to play nice. 228 00:14:23,320 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: Now here's the problem. 229 00:14:25,240 --> 00:14:29,320 Speaker 2: Nobody has been held accountable for the egregiousness of the 230 00:14:29,919 --> 00:14:34,600 behavior over at the Facebook. There's no price to be 231 00:14:34,679 --> 00:14:39,399 paid except by the users, except by the conservatives that 232 00:14:39,440 --> 00:14:43,279 were you know, uh uh. Their their reach was throttled. 233 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:48,320 Their Facebook accounts were banned, shut down, whatever, or suspended. 234 00:14:50,919 --> 00:14:53,399 So that's who has paid the price here. So I'm 235 00:14:53,399 --> 00:14:56,799 not I'm not in a particularly forgiving mood for for 236 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:01,480 Meta or Facebook on this cap and told Fox News 237 00:15:01,519 --> 00:15:04,360 Digital that Meta is changing some of its own content 238 00:15:04,440 --> 00:15:07,960 moderation rules, especially those they feel are too restrictive and 239 00:15:08,080 --> 00:15:13,840 not allowing enough discourse around sensitive topics like immigration, transgender issues, 240 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:17,720 and gender I just saw a poll and it said 241 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,679 a new low for support of men playing in women's sports. 242 00:15:21,799 --> 00:15:25,240 It's now at like eleven percent support, which means the 243 00:15:25,279 --> 00:15:30,559 rest of it is against or neutral, but like mostly against. 244 00:15:31,360 --> 00:15:34,039 That's a new low. Well, I should say it's probably 245 00:15:34,039 --> 00:15:36,480 not a new low. It probably was much lower than 246 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,080 that before we actually started asking the question, because prior 247 00:15:40,159 --> 00:15:42,200 to us asking the question, nobody thought to ever ask 248 00:15:42,240 --> 00:15:45,759 the question because we weren't morons. All right, I hope 249 00:15:45,799 --> 00:15:48,360 you had a happy holiday season. But tell me if 250 00:15:48,360 --> 00:15:51,080 something like this happened at your house. Your family and 251 00:15:51,080 --> 00:15:53,720 friends are gathered around, maybe y'all are in the living room, 252 00:15:53,799 --> 00:15:58,279 You're laughing, swapping stories, reminiscing, and then somebody says, hey, Dad, 253 00:15:58,639 --> 00:16:02,039 remember those old VHSO tapes? Did you ever get them transferred? 254 00:16:02,519 --> 00:16:05,120 And then the room gets all quiet. 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And next year, 264 00:16:33,120 --> 00:16:37,360 instead of talking about those memories, imagine gathering the family 265 00:16:37,480 --> 00:16:41,000 to watch them together, talk about a memorable gift. So 266 00:16:41,039 --> 00:16:43,879 do what I did. Trust the experts at Creative Video, 267 00:16:44,159 --> 00:16:46,960 conveniently located in mint Hill right off I four eighty 268 00:16:47,000 --> 00:16:50,440 five and online at create a video dot com. 269 00:16:50,960 --> 00:16:52,919 Speaker 1: Going over the story. This is from Fox News. 270 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:57,039 Speaker 2: It is a Fox News exclusive written up by Brooke 271 00:16:57,279 --> 00:17:02,799 Singman over at their website met Ends fact checking program. 272 00:17:03,039 --> 00:17:07,319 As Zuckerberg vows to restore free expression on Facebook and 273 00:17:08,880 --> 00:17:15,720 I think, probably more importantly Instagram, Instagram. I think that's 274 00:17:16,720 --> 00:17:22,480 the bigger deal. Instagram. I mean, I don't even really 275 00:17:22,920 --> 00:17:26,920 I barely even use Facebook anymore. I never really liked 276 00:17:26,920 --> 00:17:29,559 it to begin with. And let me tell let me 277 00:17:29,559 --> 00:17:31,799 tell you something a little bit of background on the 278 00:17:31,839 --> 00:17:38,440 Facebook and the way Facebook destroyed news and media operations. 279 00:17:39,200 --> 00:17:39,720 Speaker 1: This was. 280 00:17:41,480 --> 00:17:46,400 Speaker 2: I don't know, probably now about well, let's see fifteen, No, yeah, 281 00:17:46,440 --> 00:17:50,839 about ten years ago. Facebook went into the They went 282 00:17:50,880 --> 00:17:53,680 to news organizations and such and they were like, hey, 283 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:57,119 we know you guys are doing like newsletters and the like. 284 00:17:58,640 --> 00:18:01,799 We will do all of this audience reach for you, 285 00:18:03,559 --> 00:18:06,000 and you create the content, and then you use our 286 00:18:06,079 --> 00:18:10,480 platform to distribute. So you end up with companies that 287 00:18:10,559 --> 00:18:14,799 have well, I'll just make up an example here, Like 288 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:18,200 let's say there's a radio company for example. I'm just 289 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,000 making this up, but let's just say that there's a 290 00:18:21,079 --> 00:18:25,200 radio company that owns like eight hundred plus stations. Okay, no, 291 00:18:25,400 --> 00:18:28,000 I'm just saying it's complete, but it doesn't matter, all right, 292 00:18:28,039 --> 00:18:31,440 So you got this this behemoth of a radio company 293 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,200 and they got eight hundred stations all over the country, 294 00:18:36,079 --> 00:18:39,480 and so they say, awesome, say fire a bunch of people. 295 00:18:39,519 --> 00:18:41,400 It's unrelated, but they just like to fire a bunch 296 00:18:41,440 --> 00:18:44,240 of people anyway, So they fire people. But then they 297 00:18:44,400 --> 00:18:47,680 use Facebook and they just use the bejeebis out of it. 298 00:18:47,720 --> 00:18:52,480 I mean, they they use Facebook to spam you with 299 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:57,960 everything non stop, post after post after post after post, 300 00:18:58,240 --> 00:19:00,960 across eight hundred stations, and they all look the same, 301 00:19:00,960 --> 00:19:02,440 by the way, because it's just a template, and so 302 00:19:02,480 --> 00:19:06,640 they just push it all out and I mean hypothetically, 303 00:19:06,880 --> 00:19:08,759 and so they push all this content out and then 304 00:19:08,799 --> 00:19:13,079 of course the users are complaining because they're just getting inundated. 305 00:19:13,160 --> 00:19:16,599 Now imagine that, you know, in addition to all of 306 00:19:16,640 --> 00:19:23,000 the other media outlets and newsrooms. Now in actual news stations, newsrooms, 307 00:19:23,279 --> 00:19:28,119 newspapers and such, they're creating content because that's what these 308 00:19:28,160 --> 00:19:32,960 platforms need, right, they need content. And so when the 309 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:36,359 Facebook made its big push to get more people to 310 00:19:36,480 --> 00:19:42,400 use videos in order to compete with other video centric platforms, 311 00:19:42,960 --> 00:19:49,880 they started doing deals with these large corporate content creation machines. 312 00:19:52,039 --> 00:19:55,440 But that required the content creation to occur, and then 313 00:19:55,599 --> 00:19:57,640 it would push out, push out, push out, and that 314 00:19:57,720 --> 00:20:00,240 drove up engagement numbers, and Facebook could say, look all 315 00:20:00,240 --> 00:20:02,759 the people that are looking at Facebook ads and posts 316 00:20:02,799 --> 00:20:06,519 and all this, But then people were like, I don't 317 00:20:06,559 --> 00:20:09,240 want to see it, so they start blocking. 318 00:20:08,880 --> 00:20:10,799 Speaker 1: They start complaining and all this other stuff. 319 00:20:12,720 --> 00:20:15,039 Speaker 2: But in the meantime, you have the news organizations that 320 00:20:15,279 --> 00:20:20,160 dismantle their newsrooms because they got all these other financial pressures, 321 00:20:20,359 --> 00:20:23,119 so they start getting rid of people that are actually 322 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:29,200 creating the content, and instead they're just pushing out clickbait. Essentially, 323 00:20:31,440 --> 00:20:36,079 they give up their newsletters, their email distribution newsletters, they 324 00:20:36,160 --> 00:20:38,400 just let those go away because it's. 325 00:20:38,279 --> 00:20:39,599 Speaker 1: Harder, it's more intensive. 326 00:20:40,119 --> 00:20:44,359 Speaker 2: Creating content takes time, and so they don't want to 327 00:20:44,359 --> 00:20:47,519 pay for that, so they just start posting lots of 328 00:20:47,519 --> 00:20:50,720 more videos, and Facebook is giving them preference for more 329 00:20:50,720 --> 00:20:52,519 of the videos because Facebook. 330 00:20:52,119 --> 00:20:53,160 Speaker 1: Wants more of the videos. 331 00:20:53,200 --> 00:20:58,680 Speaker 2: And then what happens the backlash and then Facebook turns 332 00:20:58,680 --> 00:21:01,519 around and says, you know what, if you're posting this 333 00:21:01,680 --> 00:21:05,519 kind of stuff, we're going to throttle you. And that's 334 00:21:05,559 --> 00:21:09,480 what they did. So they started throttling the posts that 335 00:21:09,519 --> 00:21:16,599 were coming from these mega content creators, news organizations, newsrooms. 336 00:21:18,799 --> 00:21:21,920 And where did that leave these news operations in a 337 00:21:21,960 --> 00:21:28,200 worse position than before Facebook ever darkened their door? And 338 00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,559 then Facebook steps in to fill the void. Right, that's 339 00:21:30,599 --> 00:21:33,200 the idea that Facebook would then take over all of 340 00:21:33,240 --> 00:21:37,839 this area of content creation, but mainly relying on people 341 00:21:38,119 --> 00:21:42,200 to create it for free. That's why, I mean, that's 342 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,400 why they want more users. More users equals more content. 343 00:21:45,440 --> 00:21:47,319 More content means they can sull more ads. 344 00:21:47,920 --> 00:21:48,319 Speaker 1: That's it. 345 00:21:49,599 --> 00:21:52,720 Speaker 2: So no love lost here on my part for Facebook 346 00:21:53,240 --> 00:21:56,240 for it's business practice, but also its platform. 347 00:21:56,319 --> 00:21:58,119 Speaker 1: It's kind of janky. I don't really like it anyway. 348 00:22:00,039 --> 00:22:04,160 Speaker 2: They've angered the PolitiFact people and maybe they should fact 349 00:22:04,200 --> 00:22:06,799 check Zuckerberg on this, but they say this is the 350 00:22:07,240 --> 00:22:11,640 head of PolitiFact says, let me be clear. The decision 351 00:22:11,720 --> 00:22:16,960 to remove or penalize a post or an account is 352 00:22:17,039 --> 00:22:22,240 made by Meta and Facebook, not the fact checkers. They 353 00:22:22,279 --> 00:22:26,000 created the rules, not us. The role of PolitiFact and 354 00:22:26,079 --> 00:22:29,960 other US based journalists has always been to provide additional 355 00:22:30,000 --> 00:22:35,559 speech and context to posts that journalists found to contain misinformation. 356 00:22:36,799 --> 00:22:38,559 So this is where they pretend that it's like. 357 00:22:38,559 --> 00:22:40,720 Speaker 1: Oh, we're just observers over. 358 00:22:40,599 --> 00:22:44,920 Speaker 2: Here, We're not actual participants in the fight. This is 359 00:22:44,920 --> 00:22:47,759 always it's sort of like the you've probably heard this, 360 00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:51,960 the clown knows on, clown knows off that John Stewart 361 00:22:52,000 --> 00:22:56,000 was always accused of doing where he presents himself as this, 362 00:22:56,160 --> 00:22:58,119 I'm just a comedian kind of a guy. But then 363 00:22:58,319 --> 00:23:03,279 he like rails against stuff, makes these policy pronouncements, casts 364 00:23:03,359 --> 00:23:07,400 moral aspersions on people and such, and then when challenged 365 00:23:07,759 --> 00:23:10,359 when he gets stuff wrong, then he puts the clown 366 00:23:10,440 --> 00:23:11,079 nose back on. 367 00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: I'm just a comedy I'm just a comic. You shouldn't 368 00:23:15,759 --> 00:23:16,599 be relying on me. 369 00:23:16,599 --> 00:23:18,559 Speaker 2: Meanwhile, we find out member all of the studies that 370 00:23:18,599 --> 00:23:21,759 found that the younger people were getting their news from 371 00:23:21,759 --> 00:23:25,480 the Daily Show from John Stewart, that was their quote newscast, 372 00:23:27,359 --> 00:23:31,799 and so he did more damage to the political discourse, 373 00:23:32,160 --> 00:23:34,359 which is highly ironic because he was the guy who 374 00:23:34,400 --> 00:23:39,160 went on Crossfire and browbeat Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson 375 00:23:40,119 --> 00:23:43,039 because Crossfire he said, you know, there wasn't doing enough 376 00:23:43,039 --> 00:23:45,759 to help with the civil discourse and informing people and 377 00:23:45,799 --> 00:23:49,279 all this other stuff. Crossfire which actually brought a conservative 378 00:23:49,279 --> 00:23:53,039 and a liberal together to debate issues, and John Stewart 379 00:23:53,480 --> 00:23:59,759 savaged them and then corroded the discourse by basically doing 380 00:24:00,279 --> 00:24:02,279 well what I do nowadays. 381 00:24:01,799 --> 00:24:05,000 Speaker 1: Like that's the basically say clown knows on there you go. 382 00:24:06,960 --> 00:24:10,440 Speaker 2: I am anything if not self aware, but man, the 383 00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:14,359 the lefties and the reporters, and I hit myself there, 384 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,079 but they are they are really mad at this. They 385 00:24:17,119 --> 00:24:20,759 all went over onto Blue Sky, which is supposedly a 386 00:24:20,759 --> 00:24:23,279 competitor to Twitter, but it's like a it's just like 387 00:24:23,319 --> 00:24:28,000 a censorious mob, right, So just a bunch of leftists 388 00:24:28,039 --> 00:24:30,440 and they just you know, shout down people, report them, 389 00:24:30,519 --> 00:24:33,079 get them banned and suspended. It's just it's this constant 390 00:24:33,160 --> 00:24:35,480 witch hunt that goes on. It's it's Blue Sky witch 391 00:24:35,519 --> 00:24:37,920 hunt site. And so they all went over there and 392 00:24:37,960 --> 00:24:41,079 they're like lamenting. Mark Elias is over there crying about it. 393 00:24:41,119 --> 00:24:43,799 Which I love it when Mark Elias cries about stuff, 394 00:24:44,119 --> 00:24:48,839 and that's the Democrat super lawyer that sues only Republican 395 00:24:48,960 --> 00:24:51,799 legislatures and such, even though Democrats do the exact same 396 00:24:51,880 --> 00:24:54,759 legislation in other states. He never challenges that he only 397 00:24:54,759 --> 00:24:56,160 sues the Republican states. 398 00:24:56,720 --> 00:24:57,480 Speaker 1: He was also. 399 00:24:57,319 --> 00:25:02,960 Speaker 2: The the cutout for the Stile dossier stuff, so that 400 00:25:03,119 --> 00:25:06,480 Mark wise, Yeah, he's very upset about this decision to 401 00:25:06,599 --> 00:25:10,599 not have you know, third party independent journalists that happened 402 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:12,839 to always agree with him on stuff that they're not 403 00:25:12,880 --> 00:25:15,720 going to be riding heard on what is and isn't 404 00:25:16,240 --> 00:25:20,359 capital t the truth. You know, I think this is 405 00:25:20,359 --> 00:25:22,920 a better model. But once again, I'm not in a 406 00:25:22,960 --> 00:25:27,680 forgiving mood for Facebook for many reasons that I have articulated, 407 00:25:27,680 --> 00:25:31,119 but also for the fact that the damage that they 408 00:25:31,160 --> 00:25:34,319 did has already been done and now they're just trying 409 00:25:34,359 --> 00:25:38,759 to ingratiate themselves with the incoming administration. So I see 410 00:25:38,759 --> 00:25:40,880 that for what it is. All right, if you're listening 411 00:25:40,960 --> 00:25:42,519 to this show, you know, I try to keep up 412 00:25:42,519 --> 00:25:44,319 with all sorts of current events, and I know you 413 00:25:44,359 --> 00:25:46,799 do too, and you've probably heard me say get your 414 00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:50,759 news from multiple sources. Why well, because it's how you 415 00:25:50,799 --> 00:25:53,759 detect media bias, which is why I've been so impressed 416 00:25:53,759 --> 00:25:57,480 with ground News. 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Subscribe through that link and you'll get 429 00:26:31,640 --> 00:26:34,960 fifteen percent off any subscription. I use the Vantage plan 430 00:26:35,039 --> 00:26:38,440 to get unlimited access to every feature. Your subscription then 431 00:26:38,480 --> 00:26:41,279 not only helps my podcast, but it also supports ground 432 00:26:41,359 --> 00:26:44,920 News as they make the media landscape more transparent. One 433 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:50,240 more thing on the Meta Chris Rufo, responding to the 434 00:26:50,279 --> 00:26:54,839 announcement from Meta's founder there Mark Zuckerberg, saying they're going 435 00:26:54,880 --> 00:26:58,039 to go with a community notes system to fact check 436 00:26:58,119 --> 00:27:03,680 rather than the Journalismer's to start you know fact checking 437 00:27:04,400 --> 00:27:08,720 people's posts on Facebook and Instagram. Rufo said this is 438 00:27:08,839 --> 00:27:12,519 good and welcome, but Facebook has not been leading the 439 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:18,240 discourse for many years. It's turned into a recycled slop factory, 440 00:27:18,880 --> 00:27:23,599 useful perhaps for engineering mass consumer habits, but not useful 441 00:27:23,799 --> 00:27:27,759 for cutting edge politics. X is the platform that. 442 00:27:27,759 --> 00:27:30,119 Speaker 1: Matters, and I agree with that. 443 00:27:31,599 --> 00:27:33,960 Speaker 2: There isn't a lot I learned. I mean, okay, if 444 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:36,720 I want to watch one of the short reels I 445 00:27:36,720 --> 00:27:39,160 think is what they call them on somebody who converts 446 00:27:39,200 --> 00:27:44,079 their backyard into a you know, garden, I will watch Facebook. 447 00:27:45,039 --> 00:27:49,119 That's about the extent of what I do on Facebook, 448 00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,359 it really is. And I know, like I've got a 449 00:27:51,400 --> 00:27:53,920 page over there, and I should do more. I know, 450 00:27:54,039 --> 00:27:56,319 like there were always but like I'm only one man, 451 00:27:57,079 --> 00:28:00,079 you know, I don't have a whole operation here to 452 00:28:00,160 --> 00:28:04,440 manage all of my socials, as they say, so I 453 00:28:04,559 --> 00:28:07,559 just devote my focus and energy onto the one platform. 454 00:28:07,640 --> 00:28:12,359 It is Twitter, and I know my way around Twitter 455 00:28:12,519 --> 00:28:17,279 very very well. And also Twitter punches above its weight class. 456 00:28:18,000 --> 00:28:24,160 Twitter has the people who lead the discussions. You've got media, 457 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:29,319 you've got politicians, right, You've got academics and stuff like 458 00:28:29,400 --> 00:28:33,680 these are the people that are engaging in these debates 459 00:28:33,720 --> 00:28:35,640 and stuff, and there are a lot of randoms like me, 460 00:28:35,759 --> 00:28:37,920 I'm in there too, right, But you've got a lot 461 00:28:37,920 --> 00:28:41,799 of those those types of people that are on Twitter. 462 00:28:42,559 --> 00:28:45,119 And the reason, I mean, the whole purpose of Twitter 463 00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:50,519 was to find somebody who had like a massive following, 464 00:28:50,640 --> 00:28:53,400 you know, is really well known or whatever, and then 465 00:28:53,480 --> 00:28:56,279 you just troll them. Like that's the whole point of Twitter. 466 00:28:56,319 --> 00:28:57,519 I thought, I mean, that's what. 467 00:28:57,480 --> 00:28:58,039 Speaker 1: I used it for. 468 00:28:58,559 --> 00:29:04,599 Speaker 2: But he's just like, you're stupid. 469 00:29:05,799 --> 00:29:06,200 Speaker 1: Anyway. 470 00:29:07,559 --> 00:29:11,359 Speaker 2: Sam Altman, do you know this guy is? He is 471 00:29:11,400 --> 00:29:18,559 the CEO of open ai open ai Artificial Intelligence. He 472 00:29:18,680 --> 00:29:22,480 said in a blog post Sunday that his company has 473 00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:30,640 discovered how to build artificial general intelligence or AGI artificial 474 00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,200 general intelligence. They have discovered how to build it, and 475 00:29:34,240 --> 00:29:39,440 that the product will start to impact the workforce roughly. 476 00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:41,079 Speaker 1: This year. 477 00:29:43,079 --> 00:29:47,319 Speaker 2: He says it's going to materially change the output of companies. 478 00:29:49,799 --> 00:29:52,160 In a related story, a radio company just fired a 479 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:53,960 whole bunch of more people. No, I'm kidding that that's 480 00:29:54,039 --> 00:29:58,519 evergreen anyway. AGI is a type of artificial intelligence that 481 00:29:58,599 --> 00:30:02,720 can match or surpay as human cognitive abilities on a 482 00:30:02,839 --> 00:30:07,599 range of tasks or subjects AGI. He said the company 483 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,839 believes creating AGI and putting it in the hands of 484 00:30:10,960 --> 00:30:21,079 people leads to great, broadly distributed outcomes. I mean it can, right, 485 00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:26,680 it can lead to that. But I'm thinking it's going 486 00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:29,720 to lead to a lot more cat videos, That's what 487 00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:32,359 I'm thinking, which some of them are adorable. Have you 488 00:30:32,359 --> 00:30:35,359 seen some of the AI generated cat images and stuff. 489 00:30:35,359 --> 00:30:39,079 They're just adorable. Anyway, we are beginning to turn our 490 00:30:39,119 --> 00:30:43,400 aim beyond that, he says, to super intelligence in the 491 00:30:43,519 --> 00:30:48,480 true sense of the word. We love our current products, 492 00:30:48,720 --> 00:30:52,160 but we are here for the glorious future. That's his quote. 493 00:30:52,200 --> 00:30:55,640 He said that glorious like you're sounding like a COMI dictator. 494 00:30:56,079 --> 00:30:59,799 With super intelligence, we could do anything else. Super intelligent 495 00:30:59,839 --> 00:31:04,440 to could massively accelerate scientific discovery and innovation well beyond 496 00:31:04,440 --> 00:31:06,519 what we are capable of doing on our own, and 497 00:31:06,680 --> 00:31:11,599 in turn massively increase abundance and prosperity. 498 00:31:12,400 --> 00:31:14,640 Speaker 1: Or destroy humanity. We'll see how it goes. 499 00:31:14,799 --> 00:31:16,759 Speaker 2: All right, that'll do it for this episode. 500 00:31:16,759 --> 00:31:18,119 Speaker 1: Thank you so much for listening. 501 00:31:18,240 --> 00:31:20,359 Speaker 2: I could not do the show without your support and 502 00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:23,119 the support of the businesses that advertise on the podcast. 503 00:31:23,519 --> 00:31:25,559 So if you'd like, please support them too and tell 504 00:31:25,599 --> 00:31:27,319 them you heard it here. 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