Chris Rufo
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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,
like truly psychotic narratives gather steam at a rate that cannot be kind of debunked in a cool, calm and sober way.
And that has downstream effects on all of their is platforms.
And then what's happening is that people in the legitimate media
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 look, are there nefarious things happening with the algorithm, with foreign influence?
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
And we have to understand the algorithm at least as good as we understood the old networks.
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.
And where do people like that go to share the big lie?
Mega media.
I wish in my soul, I wish that any of these people had a conscience.
Yeah, so this is at the Small Business Administration.
It's a $26 billion slush fund that is dedicated to providing government contracts, including many no-bid government contracts, exclusively to firms that are owned by racial minorities and women.
In many cases, these are shell companies where they have a token minority and then a private firm behind them.
But in all cases, for this entire $26 billion slush fund, there's only one identity group that is prohibited from accessing these funds or bidding for these contracts, white men.
And so this is like the epitome of DEI.
It's billions of dollars.
There's all sorts of fraud and corruption.
In the program's 45-year history, there's never been a single audit done.