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Welcome to the Eric Erickson Show podcast, Hour One.

Hello, America. Welcome. It's Eric Erickson here. Across the nation, delighted to have you. I hope it's warm where you are, because it is not warm where I am, and it is well warmer of where I am than it is where a lot of you are listening. It's just cold out there. The phone number, if you want to be on the program, 8779773-7-4-25. You can text Eric, E-R-I-C-K to 33-777-7. Get the show notes, the live stream, the podcast, follow me on social media, all that great stuff.

One programming note for you out of the gate. I have a special guest. I rarely have guests on this program. I like it to be you and me, but this one's worth it. Joel Kaplan is going to join me at the top

of the second hour. Who is Joel Kaplan? He is the head of meta global policy. He is the man who convinced

Mark Zuckerberg to ditch the fact-checking standards and policies at Facebook. And I'm going to talk to

him about those changes and the impact on ordinary users and on me and on my friends who are chefs

who want to demonstrate how to sharpen a knife or use a knife on Instagram and the algorithm punishes them for it.

We're going to talk about all that stuff at the top of the next hour. Big changes Facebook.

The left, by the way, is losing it over the Facebook changes.

In fact, there was an actual headline from NBC News this morning that with these changes

at Facebook, meta will allow you to refer to a trans person as mentally ill. I had no idea you couldn't

do that last a week, but apparently you'd get punished in the algorithm.

Now you're allowed to say that a trans person might be middle ill. Yeah. Okay. So the left is upset.

The progressives, by the way, are illiberal. They're not liberal. They're illiberal. They do not like free speech.

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