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Okay. Today, as you know, what we do at the beginning of the program is tell you what you need to know. And what you need to know today is the best tweet on the subject of Facebook changing its name came to you live all the way from Russia. There is a journalist, the woman who heads up the Russian radio broadcast, Russian Broadcasting Company, kind of like we have our American media empire, the one that has all the PBS and all these different things. I think now it’s called the uh… Michael Pack had the position. They changed the name.
But anyway, her name is Margarita Simonyan. I think that’s pronouncing it righ And she’s got a great Twitter feed, it’s very active. And she’s the head of the Russian television and I think radio network. And so I was, well I saw… And she tweeted Facebook, well, let me tell it to you directly.
Facebook… she was talking about Facebook changing their name to Meta. So Facebook announced at their big Facebook Connect gathering, they had Mark Zuckerberg come out and Zuckerberg came out and he said, we’re going to change the name of our company to Meta because we’re going to become a Metaverse. And Facebook is just an app. And so it’s going to be part of our family of apps, Instagram and Facebook. But we’re going to be a metaverse company, which means build a whole universe within which you can live that’s fake.
And the tweet from Margarita Simonyan. Let’s see what her title is, technically, I’ll get that for you. So you can, there it is. It’s Editor-In-Chief of Russia Today that’s the Russian media network. And she tweeted this. “Facebook will change its name to Meta. It would be better to go directly to Meth. More honest.” I think that’s fantastic.
I mean, Facebook the business model is the addiction of the users to the business, to the hysteria and to the dopamine, to the data, all of it. It’s just the people that are on Facebook, all social media, big tech, using social media, whether you’re talking about Google and YouTube, whether you’re talking about Facebook, Twitter, they’re all utilizing, big tech, the two, twin faces of addiction to it. The dopamine hit (the likes, the shares and all that) and the data. So they get you addicted and use your data.
And it is true. It’s not just kind of… it’s a drug. Let’s say differently. What Facebook does changes your brain. And so they can call it meta, they can do a different logo. They’re doing a different logo, not the Facebook thumbs up, but this kind of weird, almost Infinity symbol. That’s “meta” it’s going to be. And they’re going to try to change it. But what they’re doing is the same.
What they’re trying to do is get people addicted to their service, gather their data. And so in order to do that, it’s agitate, so they’ll return. Agitate so they’ll return. And every time they return, gather data. And every time they return, gather data, use the data, sell them stuff, influence them.
And if you’ve been watching the Facebook coverage in the last five days, you’ve seen everybody from the Wall Street Journal to The New York Times, the Washington Post, members of Congress, everybody agitating about Facebook. But mostly what you see is more and more demands that Facebook police speech in favor of whom? Not in favor of We the People, oh no – in favor of the powerful who will tell Facebook what the right positions are, what the right attitude is.
And if it’s true that Facebook can suppress the Hunter Biden laptop, if it’s true that Facebook can knock the sitting President of the United States Donald Trump off its platform, if it’s true that its algorithms can affect what you see, therefore, what you know and what you do… what do you think is going to happen if they’re building a metaverse? What’s the point of this?
And you don’t have to look far to see that Zuckerberg is not without ambition. Zuckerberg’s $419,000,000 given to nonprofits across the country (and, in particular, in six areas that turned out to be the swing parts of swing States) were done to influence the elections in favor of systems that make it more likely his guy get elected.
We don’t have proof… yet. I don’t know if we ever will, that there was votes that were manipulated, that there were votes that were voted one way or the other. We have some indications of that, lots of indications, actually. But we have definitive proof that Zuckerberg and others, and why would it stop at Zuckerberg just in spending his hundreds of millions? Why would he stop there? If he believes, what she says he does, that the systems that are necessary for the right people to be able to vote and understand the truth (the truth that he knows) must be fostered through these nonprofits he funded and through Facebook, why would he stop in any way short of influencing what you know and therefore what you do? What you know and what you believe.
So they influence what you see, and it becomes what you know, it becomes what you believe and what you do. That’s the power we’re dealing with right now. They’re not shy about it. Nobody is shy about it. The conversation is about how, right now the conversation is about how Facebook needs to be better at influencing correctly. That’s the powerful telling them “figure out how you can influence the way we want. And if you can’t figure that out, then you’re going to have a big problem. We’re going to watch.”
What they’re not talking about is how to go about cutting back these folks in a sufficient way, breaking them up, limiting their scope, finding some way to make it so that they’re not targeting We the People. It’s really a threat. It is a threat to the Republic, as clear as can be. And it’s captured in that tweet. It’s great. I’ll put it up on social media, and that’s what you need to know.
Facebook is changing their name, they’re not changing their business model. Facebook is changing their name, they’re not changing their stripes, as they say. Facebook is changing their name to distract maybe from what they do or more likely to tell you what they’re doing, being pretty clear about it. Going straight ahead and showing you what they’re doing. They’re not shy about it. And you ought to be paying attention to it. That’s what I tell you right now. That’s what you need to know.
All right, when we come back, we will talk, we got a couple of great guests. We’re going to talk with John Schlafly today. We also I believe we’ll talk with Jim Robbins. I’m not sure if we’ll get Jim today. USA Today columnist, we’ll see if we talk to him today. We might get him tomorrow, but hopefully catch up. He’s got some insight into what’s happening in the Congress. And also either today or tomorrow, Ted Malloch will be back. So we’ll talk with Ted Malloch, too, and we will see. We’ll take a break right now, and we’ll be right back. It’s Ed Martin here in the Pro America Report. Be back in a moment.
