Oliver Darcy

Even though they're a very incompetent bunch, Don Lemon's going to be stuck in court for a while, and it's not going to be a comfortable next several months or years for him.

I think it's, you know, goodness, I think it's very worrisome.

And I think it's

Really shameful that our regulators in Congress and our lawmakers in Congress have not passed any sort of regulation to keep these big platforms in check.

But seeing what they have done since Donald Trump took office, whether it's Mark Zuckerberg removing protections for misinformation, hate speech, eliminating fact checking, or you've seen what Elon Musk has done, which has turned Twitter into X, which is now basically a MAGA fever swamp.

And you look around all the tech companies, even YouTube, you know, YouTube platformed OAN, the right-wing conspiracy channel on YouTube TV.

And so you see what the decisions they're making, and it feels like all the guardrails are gone.

You know, there were some guardrails that were erected after Donald Trump won in 2016 when people grappled with the fact that misinformation misled a lot of people.

And they seem to take it seriously.

And then after Donald Trump incited the insurrection, they booted him from their platforms.

They showed some backbone.

And now it's like we've completely gone back to square one.

It just seems like there is...

No nerve from these platforms to stand in Donald Trump's way.

And with Larry Ellison owning a piece of TikTok now, and again, not wanting to anger the very thin-skinned man in the White House, you...

I don't know, you really start to wonder how these algorithms are going to be used.

And even if they're not tilted in one way or another, I think you could certainly argue that on X they are certainly tilted toward Elon Musk.

But even if they're just totally neutral, I think the absence of having like some antibodies in the system in the, you know, form of fact checking or not allowing misinformation to run rampant on the platforms

I think that ends up benefiting Donald Trump, because he's happy to play in the mud.

He's happy to play dirty.