Mike Benz

Yes.

Now, most S&P companies don't operate at a 6% profit.

You can imagine what a, or barely operate at that.

So you can imagine what a 6% tax on global revenue does.

It's bankrupting.

And so you either have to pay the bankruptcy, the fee that bankrupts you,

Or you have to do disinformation compliance.

Well, what does the disinformation compliance component look like?

Well, one of the safe harbors is by providing, essentially delegating it to these independent experts, independent researchers, you know, who are all counter disinformation experts and academics.

I probably don't need to tell you if folks have been following, you know, to this point, who those people are and who they are connected to and whose interests they represent.

This is why you see so many CIA analysts, when they leave the agency, there's now a brand new career track for them.

You know, they used to go on to be university professors, or maybe they'd, you know... Well, let's go through for the people that haven't been following.

Well...

this field of disinformation studies is what they call it.

Because the main point that I'm driving at here is Elon fired, you know, everyone said, Elon, you fired 85% of the company.

How is it still working just as well, in fact, even better than it worked?

How can any major company fire 85% of its workforce and actually do better than it was doing before, let alone not suffer any setbacks or hiccups?

Well, the answer is because so much of the ranks of Twitter 1.0 were all of these back channels, all these trust and safety filter mechanisms, all these different touch points to all these different stakeholder interests for influencing the algorithm.

And it turns out, if you're just a free speech company, you don't need them.

But the problem is, and in their own words, and my foundation, FFO, published a huge report on this a few months ago,