Chris Rufo

But paradoxically, by Elon opening up the algorithm, by YouTube loosening some restrictions on the algorithm, you have now a new problem that needs to be solved.

And again, I'm not endorsing censorship, I'm not saying we should go back, but we have to grapple with the fact that if you're on Twitter right now,

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

like truly psychotic narratives gather steam at a rate that cannot be kind of debunked in a cool, calm and sober way.

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.

And that has downstream effects on all of their is platforms.

And then what's happening is that people in the legitimate media

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

are sensing the feeling of the algorithm, and then they are chasing the algorithm because that's where the audience is, that's where the ad revenue is, that's where their narratives are going.

And so the media and technology companies are, the technology companies are not media companies, but in a sense they've replaced the media companies.

And so, look, are there nefarious things happening with the algorithm, with foreign influence?

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.

You hear a lot of whispers about this, nothing extremely concrete, but we should inspect, at least at the theoretical level at this point, that we are becoming creatures of the algorithm

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.

And we have to understand the algorithm at least as good as we understood the old networks.

But paradoxically, by Elon opening up the algorithm, by YouTube loosening some restrictions on the algorithm, you have now a new problem that needs to be solved.

If we want to understand how to triumph over some of these blatantly false and conspiratorial narratives and create a right-wing media machine that is once again oriented towards achieving things in the public arena that advance the public good.