Ep. 1267 The Facebook Purge Continues
The Tom Woods Show
Tom Woods
4.8 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 October 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
The Facebook purges continue, with recent victims including the Free Thought Project (3.1 million likes), Police the Police (1.9 million likes), and V is for Voluntary (165,000 likes). I speak to the folks behind these three pages today.
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| 0:38.1 | what looks like another Facebook purge of, in some cases, very significant pages that had a |
| 0:46.4 | political or an ideological bent to them. And we're talking today to Jason Bassler and Matt Savoy, |
| 0:53.4 | who were the co-founders of the Free Thought |
| 0:55.3 | Project. Now, they also, Jason also co-founded Vias for voluntary and police, the police, |
| 1:02.3 | so I'll let him tell you all about that. But the significant thing here is that we're talking |
| 1:07.1 | about pages with a very, very substantial reach in terms of the number of likes they |
| 1:12.4 | had. We'll get into those details. We're talking about likes in the millions. And then just like that, |
| 1:17.5 | these pages are gone. So obviously there's plenty to talk about here. Let me just jump right in |
| 1:23.6 | with Jason and Matt. Welcome to both of you. And let's jump right in here. |
| 1:30.1 | All right. I'd like to have one of you guys start off by telling us about the pages you ran on |
| 1:36.5 | Facebook. What were they about? What kinds of posts did you put up there? And what kind of |
| 1:41.8 | membership? What kinds of following are we talking about here? |
| 1:45.1 | Sure. Yeah, sounds good. Well, my name is Jason Bassler and we had the Free Thought Project. |
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