Ezra Levant
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.