Kate Klonick

If that is like three people and they're all friends of the president, like that's a problem.

And maybe even more importantly, journalists, they go to X, they go to Blue Sky, they go to YouTube, they go to TikTok.

And they report things that are happening in those places as if they're real places that things are happening.

But they're also controlled by these individuals.

And so they're not reflective necessarily of real world, yet they are being reported on as if they were reflective of real world.

Right?

And so...

I just think that what you see in the last five years is an industry understand the power that it holds in content moderation, that it's so not a customer service issue, that it is actually like a huge, huge force

for shaping public opinion and that that has exponential value to political parties and governments.

It's like as valuable as oil and guns because how you push things, what you keep up, what you take down.

I mean, this is how you can basically create

You know, the rise and fall of presidencies, if you want to, or political parties.

And they know how to market them to you, no matter how niche you are.

And that's scalable.

And so, like, it's a way to make a lot of money, and then it's a way to control a lot of minds.

You know, it wouldn't be the first time that someone has told me that in some way I'm a useful idiot to Facebook or in some type of capacity.

I feel as if a lot of people, and a lot of what we've said today, people will be like, of course this is what happened.

This is what we were saying would happen.

But it wasn't fait accompli when we talked about it.

It wasn't.