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let's get to our first big story as one headline put it this week Mark Zuckerberg and meta are finding new ways
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to kiss Trump's ass I would move around to the front actually in that one that followed Zuckerberg announcing on
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Tuesday that meta is ending its factchecking program essentially meta's platforms will instead use Community
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note system similar to X that will apparently quote reduce censorship rules on hate speech are being loosened if you
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look at what they've done it's an astonishing thing the things they've taken out and meta's content moderation
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team will be moved from California in Texas where there is less concern about bias cuz Texas people have no bias I've
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never seen it ever Texas people won't shut up about Texas to start with anyway uh Zuckerberg shared a video explained
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his decision unfortunately I have to listen to him so let's listen the recent elections also feel like a cultural
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Tipping Point towards once again prioritizing speech so we're going to get back to our roots and focus on
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reducing mistakes simplifying our policies and restoring free expression on our platforms I'm going to let you
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stop start Scott because you had you went on Morning Joe and had quite a moment I did the same thing over on the
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BB on the be in London but go ahead tell me your thoughts we're moving to a the the keys to a thriving democracy are
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three-fold you have to have strong institutions that people respect you have to have shared stories that we're
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the good guys and we want World War II for the right reasons and Americans hearts are in the right place and
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believe in the founding fathers and the rights of people and and you also have to have kind of a
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lot of Social Capital within smaller networks whether it's your church or your neighbors or maybe you served you
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know how you feel about people who also served in the Marines or whatever it might be and slowly but surely social
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media is eroding all of those things and this is just another example of how those three things will continue to come
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down um and be eroded you have somewhere between a half and two-thirds of Americans depending on their age now get
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their news from social media and today when I was on Morning Joe I called Trump an insurrectionist and a
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rapist M had to stop the show and say that Trump was found liable for sexual abuse now imagine in contrast what
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you're going to be able to say about anything Health elections what you should do uh when a fire breaks out in the
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Pacific Palisades on on meta I mean we are all going into we are all separating further and further and to think that
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this doesn't have not only implications around candidates or politics but violence look what happen in 2017
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Myanmar everything there was violence against the rohinga in myanamar in a year later there were rumors circulated
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on WhatsApp unfettered and people were being pulled out of cars in small towns in India and hanged because of rumors
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around uh kidnappings I mean this remember pizz gate that's started on social media so four years ago he called
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it uh moderation now they call it censorship and I got to give it to the guy I do think he's a brilliant
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businessman he said okay this guy has threatened to put me in jail I'm going to turn chicken [ __ ] and turn it into
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chicken salad and come up with a way to please him and potentially R reduce up to5 Billion of costs in the Safety and
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Security team the move to Texas is actually not political it's a means of quiet firing 30 to 60% of the staff cuz
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they won't move and if you take say he saves three or four of that5 billion it trades at a p of 30 30 Time 4 120
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billion owns 50 he just made another $18 billion while managing to kiss Mark Zuckerberg's ass and no Donald Trump's
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I'm sorry Excuse me while while managing to kiss even more no one wants to kiss Mark Zucker br's ass and just a larger
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Point here and the point I made on Joe Scarboro is broken my indignant self preachy self my question is the
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following where are the [ __ ] men where are the men that recognize okay I've made tens
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of billions of dollars here I lead a remarkable life uh my kids have incredible opportunity I have a broader
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selection set of mates than I deserve people laugh at my jokes I'm going to I get to dress like this I'm going to live
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five or 10 years longer than most people I get to do remarkable things because of
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this operating system called America and the blessings of America and yet I have abs [ __ ]
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lutely no Fidelity to those values what is the point of having this much money and this much power if you
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have to bend the knee to a kleptocrat but it's more than that let me just say let me do my little rant now because
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it's more than just bending the knee of course he's doing his self-interest and his business interest which is always
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Mark someone was like I think it was on Pi Morgan he's like are you surprised I'm like no no this is what he's like
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this is what I've told you he's like for for know I wrote a piece in the New York
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Times where I was like this guy is the most dangerous person on the planet like he is he has Amplified and weaponized
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everything and then he doesn't want to take responsibility let me tell you I've talked to a lot of people inside uh
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Facebook and meta they are sick to their stomach Mark just so you know I know Joel Kaplan is is kissing your ass to
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get the job that he got but let let me just be clear so many people called me to this past week the the first person
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who was this first PR person was like we got to get off threads now like I've had
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so many calls sick to their stomach seems to to do it and they should be sick to their stomach because you are a
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sad and Shameless Weather Vein in four more years if the Democrats take over you're going to shift again because
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that's what you do you have no values whatsoever and one of I thought will Ramos did a great piece in the
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Washington Post well places where he cite he goes Mark Zucker cited a cultural Tipping Point to justify
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dumping fact checks and relax ing hate speech rules um meta ending fact checks in the US made headlines but the real
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ball game here is a broader repudiation of the idea that a company is responsible for bad stuff on its
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platform as Zuckerberg puts it bad stuff Mark you don't bad stuff what he thinks
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he's going to like like stub a toe these PE people you put people in danger um the company never really wanted that
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responsibility and Trump's election allows them to shrug it off and and and they never wanted to that's the thing is
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first of all these fact checking systems do make mistakes so does community notes
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so does AI but you have to employ if you want to build your [ __ ] social media Network you need to have all of them at
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work and to impune these fact checkers by the way they have conservative fact Checkers they're not all libtards Mark
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sorry they're from conservative Publications if you want to do that you need fact Checkers that make mistakes
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and then you correct them you need um you need AI you need Community noes to wholly Embrace what they're doing at
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Twitter on top of it with X is repulsive Mark he hates you just so you know they
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laugh at you behind your back in front of your back they laugh at you and and and the fact that he cannot he switches
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his tune I've had conversations where he says Cara AI was going to do this someday Cara Community is going to do
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this Cara moderation is going to do this I don't believe a word coming out of your mouth anymore honestly you're you
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say Mundus [ __ ] all the time Scott and I got to tell you it's exactly what's happening here now secondly when he put
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UFC um CEO and Trump crony Dana White on the board that also upset people inside
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the company and they tamped down the criticism on internal Facebook boards among employees because this guy was was
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SE was caught on a videot type hitting his wife um his wife hit him but I spent years years T talking to my sons about
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never hitting a woman no matter what if she hits you I don't care right this these are the people he's bringing onto
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the board of of of meta right now because he happens to like doing you know MMA and by the way Mark the reason
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all those MMA fighters hang with you is because you're rich they don't think you're that good they it's great to hang
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out with a rich person and I'm glad you're doing it I'm hoping you're having fun but this the whole thing couldn't
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get worse except for what Amazon did about giving melan a $40 million no that wasn't even as bad and these when these
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guard rails are removed it is going to be disastrous for for people Scott take over on your Indy please well I just I I
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feel a need to just fact Tech myself and and disclose that on the international um markets around meta I
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do believe they're going to maintain some fact checking and Safety and Security because I do recognize that
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there's real danger overseas for people the the the I mean this has so many negative ramifications one of which
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being that news when they say smart mtic and Dominion have been weaponized in an election and
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they knew that was not true and decided to put it out anyways or promote it because they knew it would tickle the
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censors of their viewers and then Dominion says you have defamed us because this has hurt our business and
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you knew you were lying and the courts say yes this is qualifies as defamation you have to pay them $774
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million and and then iger's worried about a suit from the president retribution from the president and ABC
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has to pay the companies that are now having to spend a ton of money on moderation and are chilled and scared
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and have to stop an interview with me because I call someone a rapist instead of a sexual
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abuser folks be careful slow your role everyone from News Corp from The Wall Street Journal to the BBC to Wikipedia
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to The Washington Post they're all shrinking and going away and there's been all these articles recently about
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some anchors including anchors we know and love having to take pay cuts so congratulations your Lam stream media is
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going extinct and you're going to have to get all of your news from social media which is a [ __ ] food fight
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around which ever algorithm grabs the most novel I.E conspiracy I.E false narrative to punch out there I mean
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these traditional media Outlets do play an important role and they are having their wind pipes are being crushed right
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now