Zuckerberg ADMITS government censorship, changes tune on free speech



Elon Musk is no longer alone in his quest to ensure our First Amendment rights are respected on social media platforms — as Mark Zuckerberg has just thrown his hat in the freedom ring.

Zuckerberg, Meta’s CEO, has announced that the company will be adopting X standards and restoring free speech protections across Facebook, Instagram, and Meta platforms. Meta is also doing away with its third-party fact-checking program and will instead mimic X’s community notes system as well as remove criminal and fake content.

“I hear the words that Zuck has said, he says he wants free speech, but I don’t know if it’s really going to sink in that this is actually happening,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” tells co-host Matthew Peterson and BlazeTV media critic Rob Eno.

“Are we just supposed to forget the past? We know how this has gone for years on Facebook,” she adds.


“We absolutely know how this has gone for years on Facebook. I mean, they’ve spent a hundred million since 2016 funding fact-check companies that then get used to fact-check things that are true,” Eno explains.

In one of its statements, Meta’s Global Policy Chief Joel Kaplan explained that the company believed it was being safe and ensuring that inaccurate information wasn’t being spread, before admitting that’s not how it played out.

“Experts have biases and perspectives, and we shut down legitimate political speech including from people like us,” Eno says. “I mean, think of all the things that Facebook, because of the fact-checkers, said were wrong. Hydroxychloroquine was a horse dewormer, it wasn’t a Nobel Prize-winning drug that treats viral infections, that masks work, that mRNA shots stop transmission.”

“All of these things,” he continues, “when our people said it, people at the Blaze, people at the Daily Caller, people at Breitbart, people across the spectrum said it — they were shut down.”

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The 3 things Trump MUST DO in his second term



Last weekend, Turning Point USA hosted its annual AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona. “Blaze News Tonight” host Jill Savage and Blaze News editor in chief Matthew Peterson attended the event and spoke with a wide range of people, including political commentator, attorney, and founder of Ten Talents International Mehek Cooke, host of "The Eric Metaxas Show" and "Socrates in the City" Eric Metaxas, and Daily Wire host Michael Knowles.

In their conversation with Knowles, Jill and Matthew asked their fellow commentator what he hopes to see in Trump’s second term.


Most importantly, “he has to deport a lot of people,” Knowles says. “Most Americans want mass deportations. Mass deportations are now a majority, mainstream political view.”

After he does that, the next promise he must fulfill is to “deport bureaucrats from the administrative state.”

Knowles is confident Trump will prove good on this promise as he’s already “invented a new wing of the government in order to do it with Elon Musk.”

The third item on Trump’s to-do list, says Knowles, is to actually implement the tariffs he’s promised.

“Whether they're tactical tariffs or they're serious, revenue-raising tariffs, I think he has to do it because it's probably the most sophisticated and responsible pitch he's made in his presidential campaigns,” he tells Jill and Matthew.

“He's saying, ‘Look, there will be some short-term economic issues for certain groups, but we need to protect American workers. It's in our long, long-term economic and national security interest to make sure that we don't get cut off. We all saw during COVID when the supply chains were disrupted how terrible it is to be totally dependent on foreign country,”’ Knowles explains.

“Trump is a very impressive man, [but] I don't think even he could do much more than that.”

To hear Knowles’ take on the spiritual battle between good and evil that’s becoming more obvious by the day in our country, watch the episode above.

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DC lawmakers on the naughty list after proposing INSANE spending bill



Speaker Mike Johnson attempted to cram a bill containing funds for censorship and COVID mandates through Congress before Christmas — but the plan was thwarted by multiple lawmakers and even Elon Musk, who successfully tanked the bill.

“Everyone on D.C. might be going on the naughty list because we’ve seen over 1,500 pages of the CR that the House put forth, and it’s filled with things like a congressional pay raise and an Obamacare exemption for elected officials,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments.

“We’ve seen an incredible amount of blowback to this bill online, and it’s not just from lawmakers. Elon Musk is getting into this fight. So is the pressure now from the public square enough to make Mike Johnson go back to the drawing board for the CR?” Savage asks Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.


“Oh, yeah, I think this is dead on arrival; and I have not seen this really happen in the 20 years I’ve been in D.C. or the years I’ve been covering this — that the uniparty gets this kind of blowback,” Bedford says.

“They didn’t even bother bringing conservatives to the table,” he continues. “They needed to hand out basically Christmas gifts to Hakeem [Jeffries] and Chuck Schumer and his friends, and the response has just been exploding since it’s finally dropped.”

Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and JD Vance have all taken turns coming out against the bill, which has had a massive impact.

“I don’t see a world where Mike Johnson tells Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk to take a hike on this,” Bedford says.

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UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting sparks a viral meme explosion



26-year-old Luigi Mangione has been charged with the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson — but he’s not going quietly.

Mangione was captured on camera yelling, “It’s completely out of touch and an insult to the intelligence of the American people,” as he entered the courtroom, and the internet has gone wild in the aftermath.

“The culture being where it is today, in the midst of this tragedy, the memes have been rolling in,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” says, asking Blaze Media digital strategist Logan Hall, “What do you think it is about him and this case that has just grabbed the attention of the nation?”

“I mean, you don’t really see this sort of crazy street violence where somebody just goes up to a big CEO of a big company and just guns them down in broad daylight,” Hall says. “Part of it too is that the news cycle has been kind of slower since Trump, since the election, so this is sort of what people glommed on to.”


Matthew Peterson has another theory.

“I think part of it is because it’s hard to tell what the hell is going on a lot these days, and when you look at this case, we’ve got a guy who gunned someone down in broad daylight, as it were, Monopoly money in the bag,” Peterson says.

“So you get this thing where you go, ‘Am I in a movie? Does this guy think he’s in a movie? Is someone making a movie? What’s real here?’” He continues. “And then this sort of strange persona that he is, right?”

This persona being that Mangione was “very online.”

“It just makes for a lot of jokes to sort of get us through this, and some very bizarre humor,” he says while Hall himself admits that “the memes are very good.”

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REVEALED: FBI had CONFIDENTIAL SOURCES at the Capitol on Jan. 6



A bombshell report from the Office of Inspector General has revealed that 26 confidential human sources for the FBI were on the Capitol grounds on January 6, with at least 13 of these sources “storming the Capitol” that day.

“Why didn’t any of this come out in the J6 committee hearing that we saw?” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” asks Blaze News senior politics editor Christopher Bedford.

“Why would it? So much of the J6 committee hearings have previously just been Democrat witch hunts,” Bedford answers. “I guess this has been something that Republicans have been trying to turn around, and they’ve been doing some good work on that in the last couple of months.”

And with Donald Trump heading into the White House in early 2025, their hard work is about to seriously pay off.

“The incoming Trump administration is very serious about unearthing exactly what happened, what’s been going on here,” Bedford explains.


“This riot, completely packed to the gills with different FBI informants, including those attacking the Capitol, got turned into a Democratic witch hunt that they used to go through Republican finances, to interrogate Republican staffers, to shut down Republican bank accounts, to dig through congressmen’s emails and private communications, to try and depose and put a president in prison,” he continues.

However, mainstream media outlets like CNN are now acting as if it’s not a big deal that it wasn’t FBI agents embedded in the protests but rather FBI informants.

“CNN is really awful on this,” Bedford says. “Just been taking the bait over and over again. You know, these folks, I think that most of them, if you went back to when they were in high school or college, and they wanted to be a reporter, they would say that they wanted to challenge people in the intelligence community, they wanted to challenged people in power, they wanted to shine a light on shadowy areas that powerful people don’t want actually exposed.”

“It’s been wild to see, especially in opposition to Donald Trump, how that urge has just become they want to be pied pipers and propagandists for the regime instead,” he adds.

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A black hole of nothing: Why Trump is running the show before 2025



When even Politico is admitting that Joe Biden couldn’t possibly be the man currently in charge of the United States, you know it’s gotten bad.

“Politico finally noticed this,” Blaze Media senior editor for politics Christopher Bedford tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “And I think the reason for that is because Democrats are finally willing to talk about it. There’s been a complete absence of leadership in the White House for four years now.”

“It’s not just that Joe Biden is absent, it’s that the new president-elect, not his vice president, but former President Donald Trump, seems to be everywhere at the exact same time,” he continues.

And Trump isn’t just “everywhere,” but he’s receiving warm welcomes from leaders all around the world.


“I mean he’s going over to France; he’s going to the grand, beautiful, really moving reopening of Notre Dame. Royalty from England, people who used to snub their nose at him, Canadian Prime Ministers, or I guess governors as he would call them, French leaders, they are bustling to get into shaking his hand,” Bedford explains.

“When people wonder what American policy is, they’re much more interested, they’d be much better suited, talking to Donald Trump, the mean, old orange man, than they would be talking to the sitting president of the United States, if they’re even able to get him on the line,” he adds.

Peterson is in full agreement.

“Everyone’s seen it. They’ve seen him act as president since really a few weeks after he won. He’s already in the lead,” he says. “It speaks to something very deep that is lurking here, and that is: Where is the leadership in the Democratic Party, period?”

“There’s just a black hole right now of nothing,” he adds.

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Mental health and religion: Why men need God now more than ever



American men have been suffering in silence through an unprecedented mental health and suicide crisis — while women’s rights have taken center stage.

Carrie Sheffield, senior policy analyst for Independent Women’s Voice, believes it’s high time this changes.

“Nationwide, we are experiencing the highest suicide rate, the highest depression rate, ever in recorded American history. And unfortunately, men are hit hardest when it comes to suicide,” Sheffield tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight,” adding that 80% of suicides are committed by men.

“More than 90% of occupational deaths on the job are men. We don’t talk about this. The life span on average of men is far shorter than for women, and so we don’t talk about men. All the left loves to do is to demonize men,” she explains.

However, Sheffield believes there’s an answer for the men suffering in silence.


“Coming to faith, being in faith practice, religious community, religion. This is extremely tied with strong mental health, lower suicide, low substance abuse, and so it was an encouragement to men because men are far more likely to be atheist and agnostic,” Sheffield explains.

“Why aren’t people talking about what men would need in terms of mental health?” Peterson asks.

“In general, I think our culture has become divorced from truth,” Sheffield says. “Postmodern society is truth is whatever the wind is telling us. Whatever is trendy, whatever is hot, whatever is buzzy, and when our society falls away from that, it’s no wonder that then you fall into this situation.”

“I’ve experienced it myself as a recovered agnostic, where if you don’t believe in an eternal truth or purpose, then your mental health suffers. And so, I think for a lot of men, as the quote-unquote ‘feminist movement’ demonized men and tried to sever them from their purpose, which is to serve God, to serve people,” she continues.

“Part of that is this idea that a man could be a provider or a protector or create a family,” she says. “The feminist movement was trying to undermine all of that.”

However, there’s some good news.

“I looked at a headline that came out, I think, last week, and Bible sales are actually up 22% in America,” Savage comments.

“The Bible sales, the 22% increase, which is phenomenal, that you mentioned, this is being driven by first-time Bible-buyers,” Sheffield says. “They’re discovering it by themselves, they’re being, in some ways, pioneers in their own family. And it’s being led by young men.”

“And so that’s a glimmer of hope,” she adds.

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Gavin Newsom's INSANE electric vehicle policy could impact YOU



If your plan was to make cars more expensive for everyone, then you would do exactly what Gov. Gavin Newsom is doing with his extreme emissions regulations.

“No matter where you live,” Jill Savage of “Blaze News Tonight” comments. “We’re talking about impossible quotas, massive fines for automakers, and even a new gas tax. It’s going to make drivers furious.”

Automotive expert and journalist Lauren Fix isn’t thrilled with the plan, either.

“There’s a lot going on,” she tells Savage and Matthew Peterson. “Right now, California currently has from the California Air Resources Board a mandate that by 2026, 35% of all vehicles sold in the state of California should be all electric.”

“By 2030, all electric,” she continues. “No vehicles will be allowed to be sold in the state that are gasoline powered. That’s going to be a problem, considering the cost of electricity there is the highest in the country.”


But it gets worse.

“Every car sold today, as we speak, has a $20,000 fine on top of it for not meeting the California air resources board,” Fix explains. “So every manufacturer is paying a loss of $20,000 on every car that’s sold.”

Starting the first of the year, California will also be adding a 68-cent tax on every car that’s sold.

“That’ll make it even more expensive. So the idea is to incentivize you to give up your gasoline-powered vehicle, but then you have a car payment, higher insurance rates, and no place to charge,” Fix says, noting that it will not only be California affected.

“It’s going to actually affect the whole country, because car manufacturers are not going to build a car just for the state of California. They’re going to build a car for the entire country,” she explains.

While 17 states, including New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, unsurprisingly side with California — Fix believes Trump can stop them.

“If I had his ear, I would tell him to go after the California Air Resources Board, get them to dissipate, because President Obama gave them even more power. So whatever California says, the entire country is forced to follow it,” Fix says.

“Car manufacturers can’t afford to have billions of dollars in fines. Instead, they’re taking millions of dollars in losses, and we’re all paying for it,” she adds.

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How MAGA is winning the culture war



While Kamala Harris stuck to interviews with the outdated mainstream media, Donald Trump ventured out to alternative media like podcasts and Twitch — which many Americans appreciated.

Gates Garcia, president and CEO of Pine Hill Capital management, is one of them.

“He spoke to me,” Garcia tells Jill Savage and Matthew Peterson of “Blaze News Tonight.” “By ‘me’ I don’t mean that fancy title that you just read, that’s not as fancy as it sounds. I mean ‘me,’ the regular guy sitting on the couch wanting to know who he is as a human.”

“In linear broadcast television, you’re sort of spoken to. And with podcasts and alternative platforms, networks like the Blaze, you’re able to sort of participate in the conversation,” he continues. “It feels like they’re talking to you on a personal level, that sort of is able to humanize the person.”


“If you look at every demographic that swung in Trump’s direction, I think it was a direct result of him actually speaking to those people directly,” he adds.

While the left has historically dominated the media and all cultural institutions, Garcia believes that’s about to completely change.

“I think we’re in the first inning of an absolute takeover of the media, and by that, I mean the right, the conservative movement, is taking over that institution. We’re probably in the first inning, but it’s been happening for a while, and I think that when over half the country elects Donald Trump, it means that they either don’t watch mainstream media, or they don’t believe it,” he explains.

And Garcia isn’t the only one who sees it. After Trump’s landslide victory, Elon Musk posted on X: “You are the media now.”

“We’ve been given control, we the people. And we can curate what we want to consume, and so, it’s now sort of owned in a way by the people,” Garcia explains, adding, “You can take an institution down, or you can build a linear one. The great part is, we’re building the linear one. They took themselves down.”

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