Ezra Levant
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard 13 Apr
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From the White House to the FBI to the CIA, there was so many different government organizations, including to do with health, that were plugged right in to the back end of social media, trying to throttle people even like RFK Jr. Oh, yeah, definitely.
And if you said anything that was contrarian about the pandemic, even things that are now accepted, like the likelihood that it came from the Wuhan Virology Center or Research Center, You would be demonetized, so you wouldn't be able to sell ads. You would be throttled in various ways. You would be suspended. That happened to us. We were growing at 8% per month.
Not quite the stats that you described, but back in 2015, 2016, we were the largest YouTube news service in Canada. More than Global News, more than CTV. Those are massive billion-dollar companies. We were bigger. And then... bam, in January 2017, we were cut by 85%. And then they later just took it all down to zero.
We still have about 1.7 million YouTube subscribers, and I love them, and we'll always give them content. But we're not allowed to put a single ad towards them or get what's called a super chat. And we love Rumble, which is a free speech alternative. But really, Elon Musk has... not only saved free speech, but I think through that, saved America. How are you guys doing on X?
Well, I mean, I love it. It doesn't make a lot of money for us.
But we have that kind of growth and engagement that we used to have back in the day at YouTube. And I hope Rumble continues to grow. Those guys have free speech on their mind, and they've— You know, they've got some big support. They're doing interesting deals, not just with social media, but cloud services. And I don't know, there's a lot of ways that censorship works. But I think...
I think the government has to get involved with rooting... Here's an example. Elon Musk and his doge, they're going through and finding all these cases where the government has been paying regime journalists.
I think it's actually closer to 30, and that's just through one particular program. And 99% of Canadian journalists are on that program. The CBC itself, the state broadcaster, is larger than... than all other media combined, all other news media combined.
But that's the paying for a certain message. What is fascinating and terrifying is to see how U.S. government and now Canadian government money and U.K. funds so-called fact-checkers. For example, NewsGuard. Yeah, fact-checkers. I don't know if you've ever heard of NewsGuard. huge contracts with the U.S.
Air Force for some reason, and they review any website and give it a rating, and that rating is plugged into browsers, and it basically says this is safe and this is dangerous. And it's purely political. I mean, they rate us every year. It's a BS exercise. They ask us— Questions about Trump, they ask us questions about transgenderism, and they ask us questions about vaccines.
You can see they're pushing a very particular message track. And they censor us for our opinions, not our facts. These things are all funded by the government.
And those are – I don't even think those are particularly acute crises. Those are sort of longstanding problems that it's not, oh, my God, we've got to snuff this idea out before this election, like the Hunter Biden laptop story.
So what you're talking about are big swaths of ideas – Right. And then there's the crisis ideas like the ones you just described.
Well, we only know what happened to Twitter because Elon Musk himself revealed that he sort of opened up his own kimono to show the world. I've got to think it was the same at YouTube, Google, Facebook, Instagram. They just haven't been as forthcoming. Elon Musk is very unusual that way.
And they're tracking, too, because today's 15-year-old in five years will be 20, and maybe he'll be a soldier then. And maybe at 25, maybe he'll be—think of, if you're tracking someone and all their conversations and all their networks and all their friends, and if everything they say is being recorded from their gestures to—and if it's all being backed up in big data in Beijing—
You're talking to a kid today, but in 20 years from now, you've got some dirt on someone. And I mean, TikTok is so addictive. Elon Musk said the algorithm, he felt it pulling on his mind. He had to shut it down. It's an amazing algorithm. It knows what you like almost more than you do.
And not just that- Maybe you forgot what you said in that phone call five years ago. How can it forget? It never forgets anything in some ways. And there is some reason to be terrified about it. I think Donald Trump has decided if there's going to be AI, let it be in America rather than in China.
Oh, it was a struggle session. Like a Maoist. Bloody Maoists, yeah. They were trying to put the hat on you and make you confess. Oh, definitely.
Yeah, that didn't go so well. I mean, if I recall, your grants, you always... Yeah.
We did, yeah. Yeah. You know what? This is one of those cases where the people were on one side and the institutions were another. That's where crowdfunding works sometimes. Yeah, right. Where it's sort of an 80-20 kind of thing. I mean, transgenderism in sports is another example of that. All the institutions are on one side and the people are on the other. Trump— Like pipelines in Canada.
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