Mike Benz

And they all have billions of dollars in government contracts for their advertising spend.

So one of them has a $4 billion Pentagon contract to do all the different advertising spend for US Army recruiting.

They have billions of dollars in contracts for HHS to do the government.

They have billions of dollars in programming for the Department of Education.

If they don't play ball with the government demands on one side of government, they can potentially lose to a competitor advertising agency for those contracts.

And we know that these agencies are concerned about this because, and thank Jim Jordan for this, Jim Jordan a few months ago got the Facebook files, the sort of,

Congress-subpoenaed equivalent of the Twitter files that Elon Musk disclosed beginning in 2022.

And in the Facebook files, Nick Clegg, who is the head of public policy at Facebook,

his internal communications with the lieutenants at Facebook were concerned about these Biden administration demands to censor all Facebook speech about COVID origins or COVID orthodoxy or COVID enforcement rollout.

And Nick Clegg, the head of censorship policies, is telling his censorship policy team, listen, I know we don't want to do this.

I know it's ugly, but we need to be receptive.

We need to think creatively about ways to be receptive to the Biden administration censorship pressure here because we have bigger fish to fry with the Biden administration on multiple policy fronts.

Meaning, and as I mentioned, this is because they need the State Department's help.

I got these calls when I was running the cyber desk at State.

I got a call one day from nine Google lobbyists who told me, nine of them on a call with me, telling me that the EU Digital Service Act and Digital Markets Act is the number one existential threat to Google's business model over the next five years.

And so to represent US national interests, the State Department should consider

you know, reformulating US negotiating posture or policy asks to our EU counterparts in order to protect Google's business model.

This happens in every region all over the world, and it is mission critical.

Again, Google said that was the number one existential threat to their business model, and they needed Big Daddy government's help to protect them.

So Facebook,