Minnesota Shooting Exploited to Impose AI Mass Surveillance; Taylor Lorenz on Dark Money Group Paying Dem Influencers, and the Online Safety Act
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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🗓️ 29 August 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
A former Israeli special forces agent promotes his AI mass surveillance program on Fox News in the wake of the Minnesota shooting, exploiting Americans' fears. Plus: journalist Taylor Lorenz discusses her WIRED article exposing the dark money group paying Dem influencers. Taylor and Glenn also discuss the dangers of the UK's Online Safety Act and the threat of censorship worldwide.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Thursday, August 28th. Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every |
| 0:21.8 | Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern, and exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech |
| 0:26.6 | alternative to YouTube. Tonight, the ramifications of yesterday's Minneapolis school shooting |
| 0:32.3 | and the exploitations of it continue to grow. On last night's program, we reviewed the transparently opportunistic efforts by people across the political spectrum to immediately proclaim that they knew exactly what caused this murderer to go and shoot people. And as it turned out, the murderer was motivated by whatever party or ideology, religion, or social belief that they |
| 0:55.4 | most hate, always a huge coincidence and a great gift for those who claim that. |
| 1:00.5 | Now, while that happens in the lake virtually every such tragedy, people instantly try to exploit |
| 1:05.0 | it to advance their political agenda, there's an even more common and actually far more sinister |
| 1:09.8 | manner of exploiting such shootings, namely |
| 1:12.6 | by immediately playing on people's anger and fear to tell them that they must submit to greater |
| 1:18.0 | and greater forms of mass surveillance and other authoritarian powers in order to avoid such |
| 1:23.1 | events in the future. |
| 1:25.4 | As they did after the 9-11 attack, which ushered in the full-scale online surveillance system |
| 1:30.0 | under which we all live, Fox News is back to push a comprehensive Israel-developed AI |
| 1:36.4 | mass surveillance program in the name of stopping violent events in the future. |
| 1:42.0 | We'll tell you all about it. Then we have a very special guest, a surprise |
| 1:47.0 | guest for tonight. She is Taylor Lorenz, who reported for the New York Times in the Washington Post |
| 1:52.6 | on internet culture, trends and online discourse, and social media platforms. She's here in part |
| 1:57.8 | to talk about her new story that appeared in Wired magazine today that details a dark money program |
| 2:03.6 | that secretly shovels money to pro-democratic party podcasters and content creators, including ones with large audiences, and yet they are prohibited to disclose even to their viewership that they're being paid in this way. We'll talk about |
| 2:17.9 | this program and its implications. And while she's here, we'll also discuss her reporting on |
| 2:22.5 | and warnings about new online censorship schemes that masquerade as child protection laws, |
| 2:27.3 | namely by requiring users to submit proof of their identity in order to access various |
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