Mark Zuckerberg allegedly ‘red-pilled’ and aligned with ‘libertarian ideology’



If there’s one guy you want on your side on November 5, it might be the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg.

Zuckerberg has previously admitted to being coerced into censoring information that did not align with the Biden administration’s narrative — but he now seems to be abandoning the Democrats.

In a post on X, Leading Report wrote that Zuckerberg is “reportedly now aligned ‘with libertarian ideology’ and has hired a Republican strategist to repair his relationship with right-wing media and operatives after years of censorship.”

While hopeful that Zuckerberg is being truthful, Dave Rubin of “The Rubin Report” isn’t fully convinced.

“Personally, I’m a little cynical about this; the guy who put Zuckerbucks in and has been helping Democrats for years, now he’s going through his libertarian phase,” Rubin tells “Impact Theory’s” Tom Bilyeu and former CIA officer Mike Baker, who is in agreement.

“That’s a hell of a pivot, right?” Baker comments. “I think it’s wonderful because that is your theoretically human capacity to be able to change your mind based on changing circumstances, so maybe it is true.”

“But, I think we need to see a little bit more in terms of action and put a little time there before we start to imagine somehow that he’s crossed over that bridge,” he adds.


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Mark Zuckerberg ADMITS censorship mistakes — genuine change of heart or gutless political posturing?



Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has shocked the world with his complete 180-degree reversal on the subject of government control over virtual platforms. In 2018, he was gung ho on government overreach.

But now … not so much.

In a recent letter to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), the tech mogul outs the Biden administration for "repeatedly pressuring" Meta to censor COVID-19 posts and squash the "laptop from hell" story about Hunter Biden in 2021.

Rumor has it Zuckerberg might be trying to align himself with Donald Trump as the likelihood of his return to power swells.

Is the tech giant’s sudden change of heart authentic? Or is he simply reversing course to match the shifting political tides?

Pat Gray and the “Unleashed” team discuss the situation.

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“It was every dissenting voice,” corrects Pat, noting that social media censorship went far beyond ridding the internet of COVID narratives and Hunter Biden chatter.

But despite being asked point-blank if the administration was pressuring social media companies to shut down free speech, Jen Psaki, who was Biden’s press secretary at the time, stated: “We don’t shut anything down. We don’t block anything. Our point is that there is information that is leading to people not taking the vaccine, and people are dying as a result. And we have a responsibility as a public health matter to raise that issue.”

“So the answer is yes,” Pat translates, making the point that while the government may not have taken down information itself, it bullied social media platforms with “or else” ultimatums.

And now, the reality of government censorship has come to light in Zuckerberg’s admission.

While many are excited about the Meta CEO’s reversal, Pat isn’t convinced it’s a genuine change of heart.

“Why now?” he asks.

Could it be because Zuckerberg is simply playing the tune of the administration he believes is next in line? After all, he is “the guy who's been begging for government regulation on the internet forever.”

To hear more, watch the clip above.

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Mark Zuckerberg admits the TRUTH about government censorship — what now?



Americans were gaslit for years as they were told that information that was clearly being censored on social media was not being censored.

Now, in a letter to Congress, Mark Zuckerberg has admitted to caving to government pressure and shadow-banning certain viewpoints and accounts.

“In 2021, senior officials from the Biden Administration, including the White House, repeatedly pressured our teams 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,” Zuckerberg wrote in the letter.

“Ultimately, it was our decision whether or not to take content down, and we own our decisions, including COVID-19-related changes we made to our enforcement in the wake of this pressure. I believe the government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,” he continued.

Zuckerberg went on to explain a warning the company received from the FBI regarding a potential Russian disinformation operation that involved the Biden family and Burisma in the lead-up to the 2020 election.

When the New York Post reported on corruption allegations involving the then-Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden, the story was temporarily demoted while waiting for a fact-check.

“It’s since been made clear that the reporting was not Russian disinformation, and in retrospect, we shouldn’t have demoted the story,” Zuckerberg wrote.

Glenn Beck is not exactly impressed by Zuckerberg’s admission.

“Well, Mark, that’s big of you,” Glenn says sarcastically. “Thank you, thank you very much. I appreciate that. I just would like to ask if I can get, you know, unbanned now. You know, can you not shadow-ban me now?”


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BIG CHANGE COMING: Facebook, Google, and X announce they will ELIMINATE their news divisions, but Blaze Media has some changes of its own…



There’s a big change coming in the news media industry, and according to Glenn Beck, conservative platforms like Blaze Media will most likely not benefit from these changes.

Nothing surprising there. However, there’s a silver lining.

Platforms like Facebook, Google, and X “look for the big stories of the day, and then they give you a rundown of them. They put them and push them into people’s threads, and people get their news that way,” says Glenn.

But that’s all going away apparently.

Over the weekend, Facebook announced that it would be eliminating its news division, and it looks like Google, X, and Instagram are planning to follow suit.

“That means that they’re not gonna be pushing stories out from the mainstream media from corporate,” says Glenn.

“That’s going to hurt the mainstream media a great deal,” he continues.

But before you celebrate, there’s a downside to consider.

“If I understand this correctly,” says Glenn, “they are going to let people repost news” instead.

What’s unclear is whether these mega corporations “are going to stop organizations like Blaze from actually publishing our news,” says Glenn, adding that as of now, “we’re not really sure what this means.”

“I don’t think it means anything really good for our side because it never does,” he laments.

Granted that Blaze Media has been “battling with these media groups forever” — groups that “have so many different tools that they use to silence stories and voices that they don’t like” — it’s unlikely these coming changes will benefit conservative media outlets.

“Even now, my Facebook page is throttled more than we’ve seen in a very long time,” adds Glenn, meaning that “the things that I’m posting to Facebook and other platforms are not getting to you.”

You may be wondering what exactly the silver lining is.

Well, let’s just say Blaze Media has been making some changes of its own.

“We have a big announcement, ... and tomorrow we’ll let you know what we’ve been working on,” teases Glenn.

Come back tomorrow to learn about the exciting changes Blaze Media has in store! See you then.


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Meta asks Facebook oversight board whether COVID-19 misinformation policies are still 'appropriate'



Meta, the parent company of Facebook, has asked its oversight board to review whether the platform's COVID-19 misinformation policies are still "appropriate," signaling the company may take a step back from censoring entire categories of false claims about the virus.

In January 2020, Facebook adopted a sweeping misinformation policy that purported to remove false claims about the emerging pandemic that "presented unique risks to public health and safety." The company banned posts that compared the coronavirus to the flu, for example, or those that promoted off-label use of drugs like hydroxychloroquine or ivermectin or raised questions about the lab-leak origins theory of the virus. The company has also targeted skeptics of the COVID-19 vaccines.

As a result of these policies, Meta removed more than 25 million pieces of content since the start of the pandemic, said Nick Clegg, Meta president of Global Affairs, in a blog post.

"Meta began removing false claims about masking, social distancing and the transmissibility of the virus. In late 2020, when the first vaccine became available, we also began removing further false claims, such as the vaccine being harmful or ineffective. Meta’s policy currently provides for removal of 80 distinct false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines," Clegg wrote.

But now, Clegg wrote that "the time is right" for Meta to reconsider its heavy-handed censorship policies.

"The world has changed considerably since 2020. We now have Meta’s COVID-19 Information Center, and guidance from public health authorities is more readily available. Meta’s COVID-19 Information Center has connected over two billion people across 189 countries to helpful, authoritative COVID-19 information," Clegg wrote.

Acknowledging that the pandemic has "evolved" with the successful development and widespread use of vaccines, as well as better information from public health authorities, Clegg wrote that Meta is seeking an advisory opinion on whether it should continue to label or take down content that promotes COVID-19 misinformation.

"Meta is fundamentally committed to free expression and we believe our apps are an important way for people to make their voices heard. But some misinformation can lead to an imminent risk of physical harm, and we have a responsibility not to let this content proliferate," Clegg wrote.

"The policies in our Community Standards seek to protect free expression while preventing this dangerous content. But resolving the inherent tensions between free expression and safety isn’t easy, especially when confronted with unprecedented and fast-moving challenges, as we have been in the pandemic. That’s why we are seeking the advice of the Oversight Board in this case. Its guidance will also help us respond to future public health emergencies."

Meta's oversight board consists of an international team of independent academics, law professors, journalists, human rights activists, and other experts with backgrounds related to global politics and digital content moderation. The purpose of the board is to review appeals to Facebook's content moderation decisions and independently determine whether Meta made the right decision according to its own policies. While its decisions are "binding," Meta remains responsible for following through with the board's decisions.

Most notably, the oversight board ruled in May 2021 that Facebook's decision to suspend former President Donald Trump was "justified," but that the company was wrong to suspend him indefinitely.

Conservative Censorship: We Won't Be Silenced Any Longer | Ep 365

Conservative Censorship: We Won't Be Silenced Any Longer | Ep 365

Facebook fires back at President Biden after he says 'they're killing people' with COVID misinformation



Facebook fired back at President Joe Biden on Friday after he said that the gargantuan social media platform was killing people through the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus pandemic.

Biden was leaving the White House when he addressed a reporter asking about coronavirus misinformation on social media.

"On COVID misinformation, what is your message to platforms like Facebook?" asked a reporter.

"They're killing people!" Biden responded.

"I mean really, they're, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated," he added. "And they're killing people!"

Facebook fires back

The company responded with a statement highly critical of Biden's accusation.

"We will not be distracted by accusations which aren't supported by the facts," read the Facebook statement.

"The fact is 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. More than 3.3 million Americans have also used our vaccine finder tool to find out where and how to get a vaccine," the social media giant added.

"The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives," Facebook concluded. "Period."

The contentious exchange came at a time when the Biden administration is being lambasted by critics over accusations that they are collaborating with Facebook to stamp out political opposition to their agenda.

On Thursday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki defended the administration's actions and explained that they were only "flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation."

On Friday, Psaki went further and connected the deaths of unvaccinated people with disinformation on Facebook.

"Facebook and any other private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform," Psaki said. "Our point is that there is information that is leading to people not taking the vaccine and people are dying as a result. And we have a responsibility, as a public health matter, to raise that issue."

The White House was similarly criticized when it was reported that their Democratic allies were seeking to pressure digital communications companies into censoring text messages they considered misinformation.

Here's the video of Biden's comments:

'They're killing people': President Biden on social media carrying COVID misinformationwww.youtube.com

Sen. Mike Lee blasts White House for working with Facebook to flag certain posts: 'Government can't censor speech'



Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) on Friday criticized the Biden administration for coordinating with Facebook to flag certain posts for censorship, telling Fox News in an interview that the government's actions "looks like a First Amendment violation."

"The government can't censor speech. The First Amendment makes that very clear. They're a private for-profit corporation that can make its own decisions but when it's doing it with collusion in government it looks to me a lot like a First Amendment violation," Lee said on "America's Newsroom."

During a Thursday news conference, White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki revealed the Biden administration's Surgeon General's office is "flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation."

She said senior executive branch staff has interacted with Facebook and other social media platforms to point out disinformation on their platforms.

Social media companies have severely restricted the spread of information that contradicts mainstream narratives from government agencies and public health experts, often suspending accounts or taking down posts that violate their terms of service on COVID-19 information. Conservatives like Lee protested against that censorship, complaining that Big Tech companies have presented themselves as neutral platforms and yet taken it upon themselves to crack down on certain forms of speech.

"What we've seen is social media platforms and search engines on many occasions promising to be even-handed, portraying themselves to their users and to the public as even-handed when they're anything but that. The American people aren't going to tolerate that much longer," Lee told Fox News.

A big problem is sometimes the narrative endorsed by government public health experts and enforced by social media companies isn't always correct. This was demonstrated by the fact that Facebook recently reversed its policy or removing posts claiming that COVID-19 was man-made or manufactured. The change came after scientists began re-evaluating the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and was somehow leaked from that lab. Throughout most of 2020, however, that lab-leak hypothesis was dismissed as a "conspiracy theory" and public health scientists, including those in government, worked behind the scenes to discredit the theory.

Big Tech companies have drawn criticism for suppressing the New York Post's reporting on Hunter Biden's laptop and numerous other posts by individuals or media organizations on the right.

"What do those things have in common?" Lee asked rhetorically. "They're all messages that are deemed to be associated in one way or another with the right and not the left. You do not find instances of this happening with messages from the left.

"When they promise their own users that they're going to be even-handed and then do the opposite of that, that is a deceptive business practice," Lee said.

Senate Republicans led by Lee have introduced the PROMISE Act, legislation that would require tech companies to increase transparency on their content moderation policies and would penalize companies that make a "deceptive policy statement" with respect to those policies. Violators of the proposed law would be treated as if they violated Section 5 of the Federal Trade Commission Act by committing a deceptive business practice and would be subject to all penalties thereof.

Watch:

Biden Demands Censorship: Rogan O’Handley, David Reaboi, Ronald Coleman | ROUNDTABLE | Rubin Report

Biden Demands Censorship: Rogan O’Handley, David Reaboi, Ronald Coleman | ROUNDTABLE | Rubin Report

Facebook blocks users from sharing NY Post story about BLM co-founder's pricey home-buying spree



Facebook is censoring the New York Post — again.

Users on the platform reported Thursday that they weren't able to share the link to a story, published by the Post, that detailed Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors' recent multimillion-dollar "real estate buying binge."

In the story, the Post reported that as protests and riots were carried out last year in the name of Black Lives Matter — and as money poured into the organization's coffers — the group's co-founder snagged four high-end homes worth a total of $3.2 million. The Post article highlighted the irony of a self-proclaimed Marxist like Khan-Cullors cashing in on a grassroots movement.

But when users went to share the story, they were blocked from doing so. TheBlaze can confirm that as of Friday afternoon the article was still restricted from being shared on a personal Facebook page or through the platform's Messenger app.

When attempting to share the link, an alert pops up on screen, saying, "Your post couldn't be shared, because this link goes against our Community Standards."

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Shortly after, the Daily Mail reported that itscoverage of news was also being censored.

In an explanation provided to the Post, Facebook stated, "This content was removed for violating our privacy and personal information policy."

Facebook evidently gave a lengthier explanation to the Daily Mail, saying, "As per our Community Standards: We do not allow people to post personal or confidential information about yourself or of others. We remove content that shares, offers or solicits personally identifiable information or other private information that could lead to physical or financial harm, including financial, residential, and medical information, as well as private information obtained from illegal sources."

In a response to the most recent censorship, the New York Post editorial board wrote: "This decision is so arbitrary as to be laughable. Does Facebook know how many newspapers, magazine and websites highlight the real estate purchases of the rich and famous? The next time People magazine covers Kim Kardashian's latest mansion purchase, will it violate any community standards? How about running a picture of the resort Ted Cruz is staying at?"

"No, this rule has not been and will not be applied in any fair manner," the board added.

But the Post and the Daily Mail were not the only ones penalized by the social media overlords for their coverage of the news. Conservative journalist and sports commentator Jason Whitlock was suspended by Twitter after speaking out in criticism of Khan-Cullors' pricey home-buying spree.

"Black Lives Matter founder buys $1.4 million home in Topanga, which has a black population of 1.4 percent ... She's with her people!" he tweeted on Friday only hours before being suspended from the platform.

Details about Khan-Cullors' purchase of the estate in Topanga Canyon was first reported by Dirt.com.

In their response article, the Post's editorial board noted that its original story didn't include addresses for any of the BLM co-founder's homes, and that all of the information was compiled from public records.