Timcast IRL #154 - Facebook Whistle-Blower Ryan Hartwig In Studio EXPOSES Election Interference And Censorship
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🗓️ 24 October 2020
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Tim, Ian, Lydia, and guest Ryan Hartwig (@RealRyanHartwig on Twtiter) sit down to discuss whether Facebook is trying to swing the 2020 election (spoiler: They did it in 2018, they'll try to do it in 2020), deranking leftist Facebook pages, what section 230 actually is, and whether this kerfuffle was because Ryan wanted a raise.
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| 0:00.0 | We're about a week out from one of the most consequential elections in American history and |
| 0:05.6 | probably the most important election in our lifetimes. Donald Trump versus Joe Biden. |
| 0:10.9 | And the most important thing that any one of these candidates can do in order to get more votes |
| 0:15.2 | is to get their message out. Well, we've seen some of the most dramatic censorship in the past |
| 0:22.0 | couple of weeks, notably the New York Post. It is the oldest newspaper that's never been in |
| 0:27.9 | an uninterpreted circulation. The fourth biggest in the country is still as far as I can tell, |
| 0:33.0 | suspended on Twitter for a story we now know to be true. Now there's a lot in this story about |
| 0:38.7 | Hunter Biden that we haven't necessarily confirmed, but there are emails, there's suspect we've got |
| 0:43.2 | a whistleblower, a man named Tony Bobulinsky, who has now come out and said he's worked with the |
| 0:48.1 | Biden's and he knows they were doing this nefarious stuff censored. How is Donald Trump supposed to |
| 0:56.0 | win when he has got the media and big tech set up against him? Maybe he will. We don't know for sure, |
| 1:02.4 | but we have a very special guest today tonight, Ryan Hartwig, who was a content moderator for Facebook, |
| 1:07.6 | who leaked a bunch of documents to Project Veritas. You also interviewed with them and just basically |
| 1:12.1 | laid it all out exactly what you could do, what they were doing. And I asked you just a moment |
| 1:16.8 | ago, you would say election interference. Yeah, I think that's a valid phrase to describe what Facebook |
| 1:22.7 | is doing. I mean, so just to set it up for you, you know, in 2016, Trump won the election. |
| 1:28.4 | And in 2017 is when Facebook contracted cognizant with for this project. So we'll jump into it. Yeah, |
| 1:36.7 | yeah. So so obviously you know all about this. There's a bunch of documents out in front of you. |
| 1:42.3 | And I got to say like the first little little conversations we had before the show in live, |
| 1:46.7 | it sounds crazier than even I realize and and scary. You started mentioning like what qualifies it, |
| 1:51.2 | an influencer, the swears you're allowed to use against people and why you aren't allowed to |
| 1:55.3 | use certain swears. This is weird stuff. So of course, this should be interesting too because as you |
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