Mike Benz warns of Big Tech use of federal-funded 'virality circuit breakers' to stealthily censor, throttle content
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John Solomon
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🗓️ 8 August 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Mike Benz, Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, warns how federally funded researchers conducted a ‘social science censorship experiment’ with millions of tweets they dubbed as “misinformation” during the 2020 election. Benz says the strategies they used could empower Big Tech to censor users and keep the public in the dark, by using “virality circuit breakers” to halt the spread of topics they dub “misinformation.”
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| 0:00.0 | Hello America and happy Tuesday, a lot going on today, we've got an exclusive story that |
| 0:11.1 | broke overnight. The latest revelation in a long line of revelations about free speech |
| 0:16.6 | infringement in America, a study done by federally funded researchers at universities that got |
| 0:23.6 | money from the National Science Foundation, they have come up with some ideas, what I would |
| 0:29.0 | call stealth tactics below the radar tactics to keep you from knowing when you're being |
| 0:34.2 | throttled or censored on social media. An interesting study, a lot of people didn't pay attention |
| 0:39.6 | to it. Mike Benz from the Foundation for Freedom Online, one of the brand new champions for |
| 0:44.3 | digital free speech, he's going to join us and walk us through that in the first pack. |
| 0:48.3 | We had a good conversation. Amanda and I did with him last night. I think you're going |
| 0:51.4 | to enjoy that conversation a lot. In block two, we've got a really great interview with John |
| 0:57.6 | Rich. Yes, the country music star. A year ago, he shook up country music by ditching labels |
| 1:03.8 | and going out to America directly and releasing a song called Progress that spoke his mind |
| 1:08.7 | about liberalism in America, about the state of America under Joe Biden. The song soared |
| 1:13.8 | to number one, that for a day, not for two days, not just on the country music starts. |
| 1:17.6 | For two weeks on all music charts, the bypassed America went through true social and other |
| 1:22.5 | platforms and got to number one for all genres of music. Well, he's got a big album coming |
| 1:29.0 | out this coming month. I think August 18th is the launch date. He's going to give us a sneak peek |
| 1:33.8 | about what's up, including a little bit of the music from that album. We get a little taste of it. |
| 1:38.8 | It's a really fun album and I think he also will give us some insights into just what we're hearing |
| 1:44.6 | about this emerging alternate marketplace of which music could be a very, very big part. |
| 1:49.9 | All right. And then in block three, Addison Smith's going to join us. There was some breaking news. |
| 1:53.8 | Today, Addison Smith, of course, one of the great Justin News journalists that I get to work |
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