David Sachs

And then what happened is the story just went viral anyway, because all Silicon Valley reacted on their own in a grassroots and authentic way, because I think they were actually genuinely offended by how bad the story was, how ridiculous it was on its face.

And so they react, and then that became the story.

And so this whole coordinated narrative became, in a way, part of the media industry's cover-up for itself, like their attempt to explain away why everybody thought that the story was so bad.

Let me just say, I do think that this outpouring of support does illustrate something important, which is just how much power and respect the New York Times has lost.

You know, 10 years ago,

If the New York Times ran a hit piece on somebody, even if other people didn't like it, they wouldn't want to say anything because they'd be afraid that they would be the next target.

And that mystique and that fear has completely broken down.

People kind of see the New York Times for what it is, which is basically a bunch of political activists who are pretending to be reporters.

And essentially, they just launder the point of view of their anonymous sources who are basically left-wing Democrats.

and try to portray those viewpoints as somehow being neutral or objective truth, right?

Because they're kind of presenting themselves as these neutral arbiters of the truth.

And I think everyone can kind of see through that sham at this point.

The thing they started with was the headline.

And that was the one thing they refused to change, no matter how many times we refuted their narrative.

What they would do is every couple of weeks, they'd send us a new fact check.

And we would basically debunk it.

And we can show you some of those fact checks if you want to see them to see where the story started, what they're trying to prove.

And what would happen is every time we would debunk one of their accusations, they would just come back to us with a new one in every couple of weeks.

The only fixed point in their reporting was this idea that I had to have these conflicts of interest that were benefiting myself and my friends.

That you were self-dealing.