Chris Rufo

If the media narrative is, did Israel kill Charlie Kirk?

Not only is the breakdown epistemological, meaning we can't actually see the truth.

We're not tightly kind of clung on to reality, but there's no positive outcome that can emerge from that.

There's nothing we can do.

If the premise is false, the conclusion is impossible.

And so every media cycle that is dominated by the

interpersonal tabloid drama or just the kind of brain addled conspiracy is directly harming the Trump administration's ability to succeed and therefore directly harming its political fate.

Yeah.

I mean, you have to understand that the structure is new.

And so it's not just Fox News, NBC, ABC that have standards and practices.

They have legal review.

They have an audience that is aggregated and then sold to Fortune 500 company advertisers.

The new structure and the structure we're not talking about is the algorithm.

And so the media and technology companies are

you know, the technology companies are not media companies, but in a sense they've replaced the media companies.

And it's like looking into a black box.

And I know there has been a lot of talk about the Twitter algorithm, how that's changed.

I think there's been a lot of talk about the YouTube algorithm and how that's changed.

And look,

What happened after COVID was censorship, especially censorship against the right, against dissident voices, was wrong, we shouldn't go back.