Bassem Youssef
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Now, it is actually very, very fascinating to see the little man having that power over the media.
But you cannot call people with TikTok propagandists while people being paid to give you the news and they deliberately lie to you.
But you cannot call people with TikTok propagandists while people being paid to give you the news and they deliberately lie to you.
But you cannot call people with TikTok propagandists while people being paid to give you the news and they deliberately lie to you.
Yes, yes. But the mechanism and the intentions are different. because here's the thing. I'd rather have the TikTok guy than the- Like the TikTok guy is a TikTok guy, all right? But if you have the New York Times being told that, being exposed to be lying, and then they get this like UN report, which is like a disgrace, and you just put the title and you don't talk about it.
Yes, yes. But the mechanism and the intentions are different. because here's the thing. I'd rather have the TikTok guy than the- Like the TikTok guy is a TikTok guy, all right? But if you have the New York Times being told that, being exposed to be lying, and then they get this like UN report, which is like a disgrace, and you just put the title and you don't talk about it.
Yes, yes. But the mechanism and the intentions are different. because here's the thing. I'd rather have the TikTok guy than the- Like the TikTok guy is a TikTok guy, all right? But if you have the New York Times being told that, being exposed to be lying, and then they get this like UN report, which is like a disgrace, and you just put the title and you don't talk about it.
It's like, I'm fine with CNN and Jake Tapper and all of those people spreading the rape allegations for years. They didn't, I don't even want them to refute them. I want them to bring the Israeli reports saying that it didn't happen.
It's like, I'm fine with CNN and Jake Tapper and all of those people spreading the rape allegations for years. They didn't, I don't even want them to refute them. I want them to bring the Israeli reports saying that it didn't happen.
It's like, I'm fine with CNN and Jake Tapper and all of those people spreading the rape allegations for years. They didn't, I don't even want them to refute them. I want them to bring the Israeli reports saying that it didn't happen.
So that's why people in TikTok, because they have to take matters in their own hand.
So that's why people in TikTok, because they have to take matters in their own hand.
So that's why people in TikTok, because they have to take matters in their own hand.
So you have both. You have both. And it's kind of like the democracy of the social media, as we always call it. But if you have the street-run media, that is the legacy media, CNN, BBC, New York Times, Fox News, all of those people, and they are like spreading lies and they're not even doing their journalistic job in order to at least bring the other side. That's problematic.
So you have both. You have both. And it's kind of like the democracy of the social media, as we always call it. But if you have the street-run media, that is the legacy media, CNN, BBC, New York Times, Fox News, all of those people, and they are like spreading lies and they're not even doing their journalistic job in order to at least bring the other side. That's problematic.
So you have both. You have both. And it's kind of like the democracy of the social media, as we always call it. But if you have the street-run media, that is the legacy media, CNN, BBC, New York Times, Fox News, all of those people, and they are like spreading lies and they're not even doing their journalistic job in order to at least bring the other side. That's problematic.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
This is what you're doing. No, this is what you're doing because you go into the deep dive. This is like a no filter thing. There's no spin. The long form. The long form is going to save us. I see why you hate the TikToks, like a dopamine rush. Stupid TikTok.