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Good evening. It's Monday, November 20.
Tonight: The censorship industrial regime that has arisen and been imposed since 2016 is a multi-pronged weapon. As we have extensively documented on this show, it relies on tactics such as vintage state censorship, a billionaire-funded and government-controlled fraudulent industry to decree what is “disinformation” and pressure campaigns on Big Tech to ban political ideas regarded as dangerous by the establishment. But one of the most pernicious tactics are campaigns by groups like Media Matters and the Anti-Defamation League to pressure corporate advertisers to disassociate themselves from any sites that allow dissent to liberal orthodoxies, including sites that do nothing more than offer free speech to people who want to speak out. To accomplish this end, these groups implicitly threaten corporate advertisers that if they do not immediately cease their advertising on the targeted sites they too will stand publicly accused of supporting bigotry, racism, antisemitism, transphobia, or whatever other accusations these sites exploit to smear their adversaries and make them radioactive. These campaigns are, for obvious reasons, quite effective. Think about it. If the ADL threatens to accuse Apple of supporting antisemitism with their advertising campaigns, or if Media Matters threatens to accuse Nike of supporting white nationalism by advertising in a right-wing or free speech platform, those corporations, which are designed to be risk-averse, will naturally want to avoid that controversy by simply advertising elsewhere. The platforms that are attacking the pen values of free speech such as X and Rumble rely on advertising revenue for their survival, and so, this tactic by design can endanger the ability of any site to air or to platform any views or ideologies that these liberal groups deem dangerous.
That is exactly what Media Matters is now doing to both Twitter X and Rumble with great effect. And they're using extreme, blatant and demonstrable deceit to accomplish it. We will demonstrate and show you the deceptive studies they are now using to drive advertisers away and recall the reasons why Media Matters independent of all of this, is one of the sleaziest, most toxic and most destructive political groups in the United States.
Then, Darren Beatty is a former speechwriter and political scientist at Duke University. He was a speechwriter for the Trump White House. As the founder of Revolver News, he also has done some of the best and most important reporting, debunking many of the deceitful mainstream narratives around January 6. He's been on our show before, and we're always happy to have him back to discuss any topics that are on his mind. Tonight, we're going to talk about the new January 6 tapes that were just released, all of them by House Speaker Mike Johnson. Amazingly, it took this long to get them. We'll discuss the victory in Argentina's presidential election yesterday of the right-wing libertarian Javier Milei, the internal politics, the United States surrounding the Israel-Gaza war, Ukraine, the 2024 elections and much more. Our interviews are often among our most watched episodes, and for good reason. He invariably has insights and perspectives that are original and thought-provoking, even when he doesn't agree with them.
For now, welcome to a new episode of System Update starting right now.
