MORE Trump Charges?!

Censorship

The Biden administration's alleged influence over social media platforms has sparked significant controversy. Ben Shapiro highlights documents revealing how the White House pressured Facebook to remove content related to COVID-19, including posts about the virus's origins 1. This pressure reportedly led to Facebook reevaluating its content policies, with internal communications showing a gap between what the White House wanted removed and what Facebook was comfortable with.

The White House was literally writing to Facebook and being like, stop the jokes about the vaccine. No jokes. Joking will be forbidden.

--- Ben Shapiro

Shapiro argues that using private companies to censor information constitutes a First Amendment violation, as it effectively makes these companies proxies for government censorship 1.

   

Media Influence

Media's role in shaping public perception and its interaction with government actions is under scrutiny. Ben Shapiro criticizes the use of race card politics, exemplified by Cori Bush accusing Steve Scalise's bills of being racist, which he sees as a tactic to manipulate public opinion 2. Additionally, Shapiro discusses the impact of corporate decisions influenced by public sentiment, such as Anheuser-Busch's layoffs following a conservative boycott of Bud Light 3.

You got to polarize and make examples of them. This is Saul Olinski tactic the left has been using literally for decades.

--- Ben Shapiro

He suggests that these actions reflect broader strategies used by political groups to sway public discourse and policy.