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Bill Ackman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And he says, you know what, Bill? He said, a thief with a dagger, the only person who can cause you more harm than a thief with a dagger is a journalist with a pen. And those were very powerful words.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And he says, you know what, Bill? He said, a thief with a dagger, the only person who can cause you more harm than a thief with a dagger is a journalist with a pen. And those were very powerful words.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

A hundred percent. And I think it's a really important one. And it's really been eyeopening for me to see how stories get covered in mainstream media. And then you actually, what I do on X is I follow people on multiple sides of an issue. And you can, or I post on a topic and I get to hear the other side. You know, I read the replies.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

A hundred percent. And I think it's a really important one. And it's really been eyeopening for me to see how stories get covered in mainstream media. And then you actually, what I do on X is I follow people on multiple sides of an issue. And you can, or I post on a topic and I get to hear the other side. You know, I read the replies.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

A hundred percent. And I think it's a really important one. And it's really been eyeopening for me to see how stories get covered in mainstream media. And then you actually, what I do on X is I follow people on multiple sides of an issue. And you can, or I post on a topic and I get to hear the other side. You know, I read the replies.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And, you know, the truth is something that people have had a lot of question about, particularly in the last, I would say five years, you know, beginning with, you know, Trump's talking about fake news. And a lot of what Trump said about fake news is true. You know, the world, a big part of the world hated Trump. and did everything they could to discredit him, destroy him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And, you know, the truth is something that people have had a lot of question about, particularly in the last, I would say five years, you know, beginning with, you know, Trump's talking about fake news. And a lot of what Trump said about fake news is true. You know, the world, a big part of the world hated Trump. and did everything they could to discredit him, destroy him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And, you know, the truth is something that people have had a lot of question about, particularly in the last, I would say five years, you know, beginning with, you know, Trump's talking about fake news. And a lot of what Trump said about fake news is true. You know, the world, a big part of the world hated Trump. and did everything they could to discredit him, destroy him.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And, you know, he did a lot of things perhaps deserving of being discredited, used by a very imperfect, in some cases, harmful leader. But, you know, everything from pre-election, you know, the Hunter Biden laptop story in the New York Post that, you know, then Twitter,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And, you know, he did a lot of things perhaps deserving of being discredited, used by a very imperfect, in some cases, harmful leader. But, you know, everything from pre-election, you know, the Hunter Biden laptop story in the New York Post that, you know, then Twitter,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And, you know, he did a lot of things perhaps deserving of being discredited, used by a very imperfect, in some cases, harmful leader. But, you know, everything from pre-election, you know, the Hunter Biden laptop story in the New York Post that, you know, then Twitter,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

uh, you know, uh, made it difficult for people to, uh, to share and to read, um, you know, uh, COVID, you know, the, the, the Jay Bhattacharyas of the world questioning the government's response, questioning, you know, uh, you know, long-term lockdowns, questioning, keeping kids out of school, questions about masks, about vaccines, which are still not definitively answered, uh,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

uh, you know, uh, made it difficult for people to, uh, to share and to read, um, you know, uh, COVID, you know, the, the, the Jay Bhattacharyas of the world questioning the government's response, questioning, you know, uh, you know, long-term lockdowns, questioning, keeping kids out of school, questions about masks, about vaccines, which are still not definitively answered, uh,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

uh, you know, uh, made it difficult for people to, uh, to share and to read, um, you know, uh, COVID, you know, the, the, the Jay Bhattacharyas of the world questioning the government's response, questioning, you know, uh, you know, long-term lockdowns, questioning, keeping kids out of school, questions about masks, about vaccines, which are still not definitively answered, uh,

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

no counterbalance to the power of the government when the government can shut down avenues for free speech and where the mainstream media has kind of towed the line in many extents to the government's actions. So having a independently owned powerful platform is very important for truth, for free speech, for hearing the other side of the story, for counterbalancing the power of the government.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

no counterbalance to the power of the government when the government can shut down avenues for free speech and where the mainstream media has kind of towed the line in many extents to the government's actions. So having a independently owned powerful platform is very important for truth, for free speech, for hearing the other side of the story, for counterbalancing the power of the government.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

no counterbalance to the power of the government when the government can shut down avenues for free speech and where the mainstream media has kind of towed the line in many extents to the government's actions. So having a independently owned powerful platform is very important for truth, for free speech, for hearing the other side of the story, for counterbalancing the power of the government.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Elon is getting, you know, a lot of pushback. You know, the SpaceX's and Tesla's of the world are experiencing a lot of government questions and investigations. And, you know, even the president of the United States came out and said, look, he needs to be investigated. I'm getting my own version of that in terms of some negative media articles. I don't know what's next.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Elon is getting, you know, a lot of pushback. You know, the SpaceX's and Tesla's of the world are experiencing a lot of government questions and investigations. And, you know, even the president of the United States came out and said, look, he needs to be investigated. I'm getting my own version of that in terms of some negative media articles. I don't know what's next.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

Elon is getting, you know, a lot of pushback. You know, the SpaceX's and Tesla's of the world are experiencing a lot of government questions and investigations. And, you know, even the president of the United States came out and said, look, he needs to be investigated. I'm getting my own version of that in terms of some negative media articles. I don't know what's next.