Wednesday, August 28, 2024

The Briefing with Albert Mohler

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🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

Part I (00:13 - 17:36)
“Government Pressure Was Wrong” — Letter by Mark Zuckerberg Reveals Biden Administration Effort to Suppress Speech on Social Media Platforms

Letter to the House Judiciary Committee by Mark Zuckerberg by House Judiciary GOP
Biden-Harris Administration: No Remorse for Free-Speech Abuses by The Wall Street Journal (James Freeman)

Part II (17:36 - 24:25)
Vast Majority of Climate Change Policies Fail: But the Left Uses Such Policies to Expand Government Power

Follow the Science: Biden Climate Policy Is a Fraud by The Wall Street Journal (Holman W. Jenkins, Jr.)
Many Climate Policies Struggle to Cut Emissions, Study Finds by The New York Times (Austyn Gaffney)

Part III (24:25 - 26:44)
Well, Looks Like the EV Future Has Not Arrived: Ford Takes Huge Loss as Automaker Kills Big Electric Vehicle Project, Takes $1.9 Billion Write-Down

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0:00.0	It's Wednesday, August 28, 2024.
0:07.5	I'm Albert Moeller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events
0:11.6	from a Christian worldview. A letter is one of the
0:14.4	most formal means of human communication so when someone sends a letter that
0:18.6	makes news we need to take a look at why this letter made news.
0:22.8	Well, in terms of a letter that landed Monday, I think we can understand pretty quickly why it
0:27.1	made big news.
0:28.6	The letter was addressed to Jim Jordan, the chairman of the House Committee on the Judiciary in Washington.
0:34.9	The letter was by Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook, and now of course the CEO of the
0:40.6	conglomerate known as Meta. Why did this letter make news? It is because in this of the
0:43.3	conglomerate known as Meta. Why did this letter make news? It is because in this letter
0:45.3	the founder of Facebook, the CEO of Meta made the charge that the
0:49.2	Biden administration had sought. He asserts here wrongly to interfere in the business of Meta to
0:55.8	effectively violate the First Amendment in some sense. Most importantly, as he
1:01.1	charges directly to influence Meta when it came to postings related to
1:05.2	COVID-19 during the pandemic, but as we shall see, Mark Zuckerberg made even more incendiary
1:11.8	charges against the Biden administration.
1:14.0	Now there are stories and there are stories within stories.
1:18.0	No doubt one day we'll know more about what brought about this letter,
1:21.0	but you know the political context is that the House Committee
1:24.5	on the Judiciary among other legislative bodies is looking into the conduct of the big social
1:30.0	media platforms during COVID and asking big questions not only about the COVID-19
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