A fitness guru, who has gained fame online by showing off his ripped physique while claiming that he eats raw liver and bone marrow, admitted this week that he lied about taking performance enhancing drugs.
Brian Johnson, who goes by “Liver King,” had previously <a href="https://youtu.be/49qP9F2-ho8?t=203" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> in interviews that he was bullied growing up and so decided to get jacked to be “able to impose my will.”
A YouTuber named Derek, who runs the highly popular channel More Plates More Dates, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fitness-celebrity-liver-king-claimed-to-be-all-natural-alleged-leaked-email-says-otherwise" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> this week an email that he claims he received from the Liver King last year that allegedly shows the thousands of dollars of steroids that the king consumes every month.
On Wednesday, Liver King admitted the allegations were true in a profanity-laced video that he posted to YouTube.
&#8220;I&#8217;m making this video to apologize because I f***ed up, because I&#8217;m embarrassed and ashamed,&#8221; he said. &#8220;Because I lied and I misled a lot of people. I stated that this is a complicated as f*** topic, at least to me it is because before social media, I was rich and anonymous. And after social media, I&#8217;m still rich, but no longer anonymous. And I never expected this kind of exposure in the public eye. It&#8217;s been tricky as f*** to navigate. Well, clearly, I did it wrong. And I&#8217;m here now to set the record straight.&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, I&#8217;ve done steroids. And yes, I am on steroids monitored and managed by a trained hormone clinician,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I have tried several peptide combinations in an effort to increase my growth hormone, and it didn&#8217;t work, meaning that my levels still remained below the normal level. So yes, it&#8217;s also true that I&#8217;ve tried pharmaceutical-grade growth hormone, and I finally found success in managing therapeutic levels in the normal range. Yes, this is true. I&#8217;ve continued on with .6 cc&#8217;s of testosterone per week, roughly 120 milligrams of testosterone a week. And no, I don&#8217;t take any other steroids like Nandrolone or Winstrol. But I have tried them in the past without success.&#8221;
Liver King then addressed the matter of why he does steroids, saying, &#8220;When I talk about the 85% of the population that suffers from self esteem issues, that&#8217;s me. I&#8217;m part of that statistic, this is why I f***ing work myself to death in the gym.&#8221;
WATCH:
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TRANSCRIPT:
<blockquote>LIVER KING: Primals, I&#8217;m making this video to apologize because I f***ed up, because I&#8217;m embarrassed and ashamed. Because I lied and I misled a lot of people. I stated that this is a complicated as f*** topic, at least to me it is because before social media, I was rich and anonymous. And after social media, I&#8217;m still rich, but no longer anonymous. And I never expected this kind of exposure in the public eye. It&#8217;s been tricky as f*** to navigate. Well, clearly, I did it wrong. And I&#8217;m here now to set the record straight.
Yes, I&#8217;ve done steroids. And yes, I am on steroids monitored and managed by a trained hormone clinician. Liver King, the public figure, was an experiment to spread the message, to bring awareness to the 4,000 people a day who kill themselves, that 80,000 people a day that try to kill themselves. Our people are hurting at record rates with depression, autoimmune, anxiety, infertility, low ambition in life.
Our young men are hurting the most, feeling lost, weak, and submissive. So I made it my job to model, teach, and preach a simple, elegant solution called &#8216;Ancestral Living,&#8217; the nine ancestral tenants, so our people no longer have to suffer. So we can collectively express our highest and most dominant form. This is my fight. This is why I exist. While spreading the message, I&#8217;ve been on several podcasts. And when asked if I&#8217;ve ever taken steroids, I&#8217;ve always said, &#8216;No, I don&#8217;t touch the stuff, not going to touch the stuff, never touched the stuff.&#8217; That was a lie.
I convinced myself that this had nothing to do with the ancestral message, I convinced myself that I&#8217;m not a competitive athlete of any kind. So who the f*** am I cheating? I convinced myself that this topic was a placeholder for a far more important conversation. I convinced myself that this would overshadow the 36 years of working out, usually twice a day, without PEDs. I&#8217;ve convinced myself that this was the vocal minority, usually in the fitness category, driving to an unproductive conversation. And I had convinced myself that this would be the wrong message to send to the 15 year old boys. So I continually dismissed it. And I dug myself into a bigger and deeper hole. I have only myself to blame. I did that. And it was all wrong.
I will be better. I will talk about it openly. Because I believe that there&#8217;s a time and a place for pharmacological intervention monitored and managed by a trained hormone physician. In 2021, when I was 43 years old, I didn&#8217;t feel 100% physically or cognitively. So I went to get monitored and managed by a trained hormone clinician to see what the f*** was going on with my life. And so yes, it&#8217;s true. I have tried several peptide combinations in an effort to increase my growth hormone, and it didn&#8217;t work, meaning that my levels still remained below the normal level. So yes, it&#8217;s also true that I&#8217;ve tried pharmaceutical-grade growth hormone, and I finally found success in managing therapeutic levels in the normal range. Yes, this is true. I&#8217;ve continued on with .6 cc&#8217;s of testosterone per week, roughly 120 milligrams of testosterone a week. And no, I don&#8217;t take any other steroids like Nandrolone or Winstrol. But I have tried them in the past without success.
Yes, it&#8217;s also true that my blood chemistry got all f***ed up while taking Nandrolone or Winstrol. My lipids got all deranged, my liver enzymes went sky high, which is why clinical oversight is an absolute must. Nope, the Liver King brand has had nothing or at least very little to do with my business success. My companies were already kicking ass, already successful before the Liver King public figure, growing at 50% year over year and still growing at the same pace after the Liver King public figure.
Nope. I&#8217;ve never had ab implants, ab etching or any other plastic surgery, and I sure as f*** never actually had gene editing done in Singapore. I made all of that up. &#8230; Ultimately, why did I or why do I do them? When I talk about the 85% of the population that suffers from self esteem issues, that&#8217;s me. I&#8217;m part of that statistic, this is why I f***ing work myself to death in the gym. This is why I do 12 to 15 blood burning workouts a week just to feel like I&#8217;m okay. Still, I have to absolutely crush myself to do so. And I&#8217;m wrecked physically and cognitively, and hormone replacement has helped in a profound and significant way. And still, I believe that the path to paradise is paved in f***ing hell. I previously have said in a weird way, I&#8217;m grateful for the recent events that have shed light on this complicated as f*** topic. I knew I needed to take this opportunity to openly discuss everything for me to be a better human. If there are any questions that remain unanswered, send them my way. I fully own that I f***ed up. I am as sorry as a man can be, and all I can do is take extreme ownership right now, be better, and lead myself to a better life as a better human. Again, thank you to everyone for the support, the criticism, the love, the hate, and above all else, the loyalty.</blockquote>
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Fitness Guru ‘Liver King’ Comes Clean About Steroid Use: ‘I Lied And I Misled A Lot Of People’

Fitness Guru 'Liver King' Comes Clean About Steroid Use: 'I Lied And I Misled A Lot Of People'

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<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/after-cdcs-rochelle-walensky-admits-covid-19-pcr-tests-has-a-major-flaw-conservatives-demand-answers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Dr. Rochelle Walensky</a>, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (<a href="https://dailywire.com/news/dr-birx-on-cdc-reform-the-way-you-rebuild-public-trust-is-to-be-transparent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CDC</a>), took some heat Tuesday on Twitter after announcing a plan to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the Tuskegee syphilis study.
The <a href="https://www.tuskegee.edu/about-us/centers-of-excellence/bioethics-center/about-the-usphs-syphilis-study" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a>, which began in 1932, enlisted more than 600 black men to record the natural progression of syphilis. Throughout the study, however, a number of ethical protocols — namely &#8220;informed consent&#8221; — were ignored, and when penicillin emerged as a treatment for the disease in 1947, it was intentionally withheld from the study participants. The study ended in 1972 after The Associated Press&#8217; Jean Heller exposed the experiment and a review board determined that the entire study had been &#8220;ethically unjustified.&#8221;
&#8220;This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Tuskegee syphilis study. Tomorrow, I will be joined by colleagues &amp; #PublicHealth leaders as we honor the 623 African American men, their suffering &amp; sacrifice, and our commitment to ethical research and practice,&#8221; <a href="https://dailywire.com/news/baier-to-walensky-has-the-public-lost-trust-in-cdc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Walensky</a> tweeted on Tuesday.
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This year marks the 50th anniversary of the end of the Tuskegee syphilis study. Tomorrow, I will be joined by colleagues &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/PublicHealth?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#PublicHealth</a> leaders as we honor the 623 African American men, their suffering &amp; sacrifice, and our commitment to ethical research and practice. <a href="https://t.co/cbR8Shy0Db">https://t.co/cbR8Shy0Db</a>
&mdash; Rochelle Walensky, MD, MPH (@CDCDirector) <a href="https://twitter.com/CDCDirector/status/1597700811102224385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 29, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Critics quickly responded, most taking issue with the word &#8220;sacrifice&#8221; as if the participants in the study had been given any real information about the potential impact that withholding treatment could have on them and their families.
&#8220;This is just a remarkably awful tweet about a horribly unethical thing done to innocent human beings who deserved much better,&#8221; Kimberly Ross <a href="https://twitter.com/SouthernKeeks/status/1598020204143206400" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tweeted</a>.
&#8220;Whitewashing one of the most horrific incidences of governmental racism conducted against African Americans in the modern era,&#8221; Dario Morrow added. &#8220;The Tuskegee experiment didn’t end until 1972. Many black people don’t trust the medical profession to this day because of this. She’s shameful.&#8221;
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Whitewashing one of the most horrific incidences of governmental racism conducted against African Americans in the modern era. The Tuskegee experiment didn’t end until 1972. Many black people don’t trust the medical profession to this day because of this. She’s shameful <a href="https://t.co/UONAV53ful">https://t.co/UONAV53ful</a>
&mdash; Darvio Morrow (@DTheKingpin) <a href="https://twitter.com/DTheKingpin/status/1598013308283813888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;&#8216;Suffering and Sacrifice&#8217;?? The Government murdered people and when there was a cure they weren’t offered one. I’m amazed this tweet was sent,&#8221; Chef Andrew Gruel <a href="https://twitter.com/ChefGruel/status/1597987573359468544" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>.
&#8220;She needs to resign and live the rest of her days in shame for allowing this statement to be put out on her name!&#8221; Lavern Spicer <a href="https://twitter.com/lavern_spicer/status/1597977043362545669" target="_blank" rel="noopener">asserted</a>.
&#8220;Can&#8217;t tell if this is a brilliant jab at the CDC or if they&#8217;re serious,&#8221; Ed Latimore tweeted before realizing who Walensky was — at which point he added, &#8220;(EDIT: I didn&#8217;t realize this was the Director of the CDC. Holy s***, these people are monsters). Either way, this is about to get a massive ratio lol.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it’s actually pretty important to distinguish between making a sacrifice and being sacrificed,&#8221; Jerry Dunleavy observed.
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I think it’s actually pretty important to distinguish between making a sacrifice and being sacrificed. <a href="https://t.co/TApgSqVW02">https://t.co/TApgSqVW02</a>
&mdash; Jerry Christmas 🎅🏼🎄 (@JerryDunleavy) <a href="https://twitter.com/JerryDunleavy/status/1597953411143475201?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 30, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In 1973, one year after the Tuskegee study officially ended, attorney Fred Gray filed a class action suit on behalf of the families. The resulting settlement gave over $9 million to the study participants.

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Search results of current widespread protests opposing oppressive COVID lockdown measures in major cities across <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/china">China</a> were drowned out last weekend by Chinese bots advertising pornography, escort services, and gambling.
Air-Moving Device, a Twitter account analyzing China through data graphs, showed charts indicating footage of widespread protests in Beijing, Shanghai, and other cities were nearly hidden from Chinese citizens to access information about the mass demonstrations.
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Thread: Search for Beijing/Shanghai/other cities in Chinese on Twitter and you&#39;ll mostly see ads for escorts/porn/gambling, drowning out legitimate search results. Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a *significant* uptick in these spam tweets. <a href="https://t.co/Ao46g2ILzf">pic.twitter.com/Ao46g2ILzf</a>
&mdash; Air-Moving Device (@AirMovingDevice) <a href="https://twitter.com/AirMovingDevice/status/1597034969293271040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Data analysis in this thread suggests that there has been a significant uptick in these spam tweets,&#8221; the outlet said, sharing data retweeted by Stanford Internet Observatory.
Chinese citizens flooded the streets after the Chinese Communist Party&#8217;s &#8220;Zero COVID&#8221; policy prevented firefighters from rescuing residents locked inside a burning apartment building in Urumqi, leaving at least ten people dead.
The growing conflict between the government and the Chinese people has accelerated in recent weeks after some cities and provinces endured more than 100 days of severe lockdowns of China&#8217;s &#8220;Zero COVID&#8221; policy, despite just 38,000 people testing positive for the coronavirus among a population of over 1.4 billion.
Chinese Communist Party authorities have fenced in residents across the country with limited opportunities to travel while other provinces have implemented such lockdowns for more than three straight months as the nation&#8217;s pandemic policies extend into its third year, sparking citizen&#8217;s demands for Communist Party authoritarians to resign.
Mengyu Dong, a student data journalist at Stanford University, shared images of some ads, saying some of the accounts &#8220;have been dormant for years, only to become active … after protests broke out in China.&#8221;
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Chinese bots are flooding Twitter with *escort ads*, possibly to make it more difficult for Chinese users to access information about the mass protests. Some of these acts have been dormant for years, only to become active yesterday after protests broke out in China. for example: <a href="https://t.co/QRYLQu09Pq">pic.twitter.com/QRYLQu09Pq</a>
&mdash; Mengyu Dong (@dong_mengyu) <a href="https://twitter.com/dong_mengyu/status/1596749168462401536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 27, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In a series of tweets, Dong showed various inactive accounts created as far back as 2015, flooding the social media platform with thousands of tweets within 24 hours.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/11/27/twitter-china-spam-protests/">reports</a> that an anonymous U.S. government contractor and China expert said search results showed 50% porn and 50% protests while scrolling for news and images of the protests.
&#8220;Once I got three-to-four scrolls into the feed,&#8221; it was &#8220;all porn,&#8221; the contractor said.
A former Twitter employee told The Washington Post the platform has used suspected government-connected accounts have used similar techniques in the past.
&#8220;This is a known problem that our team was dealing with manually, aside from automations we put in place,&#8221; said the anonymous former employee.
The employee added the mass tweet campaign &#8220;was another exhibit where there are now even larger holes to fill&#8221; after the &#8220;China influence operations and analysts at Twitter all resigned.&#8221;
A current anonymous Twitter employee told an outside researcher that the company was aware of the problem.
Twitter CEO Elon Musk said that the platform experienced slight service &#8220;degradation&#8221; on Sunday from an old 3rd party tool used to block accounts with no rate limit, which some users believe may have contributed to the issue.
&#8220;Should be fixed now,&#8221; he added.
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Twitter experienced slight degradation of service today from an old 3rd party tool used to block accounts that had no rate limit (sigh). Should be fixed now.
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597032623020249088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Bloomberg <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/apple-limits-iphone-file-sharing-tool-used-for-protests-in-china">reports</a> Apple Inc. allegedly limited it&#8217;s AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China to prevent protestors sending documents, images, and videos in their latest iOS version released last week, which caps non-contacts from receiving files at 10 minutes.
Dillon Burroughs contributed to this report.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter">Twitter</a> CEO Elon Musk said Monday that he will soon be releasing files on how the social media platform has engaged in suppressing free speech.
&#8220;The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself,&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;The public deserves to know what really happened.&#8221;
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The Twitter Files on free speech suppression soon to be published on Twitter itself. The public deserves to know what really happened …
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1597336812732575744?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 28, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Musk responded to a user earlier this month who tweeted, “Raise your hand if you think @ElonMusk should make public all internal discussions about the decision to censor the @NYPost’s story on Hunter Biden’s laptop before the 2020 Election in the interest of Transparency.”
“This is necessary to restore public trust,” Musk replied.
The New York Post first reported messages from Biden’s laptop in October 2020, weeks before a presidential election. Social media giants, including Twitter, cracked down on the story to prevent its spread. Current and former national security officials <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/reminder-these-50-intelligence-officers-claimed-without-evidence-that-new-york-posts-hunter-biden-story-was-russian-disinformation">claimed</a> at the time that the Biden story was likely Russian disinformation and a veiled attempt from Moscow to intervene in U.S. elections.
Media outlets such as <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/hunter-bidens-laptop-is-100-authentic-forensic-examination-concludes">The Washington Examiner</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-finally-admits-hunters-laptop-is-real-more-than-two-years-after-the-fact">CBS News</a>, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-rest-of-the-country-is-starting-to-open-their-eyes-major-outlets-confirm-contents-of-hunters-laptop">The New York Times, and The Washington Post</a> have confirmed the laptop’s contents and messages, in part regarding foreign business deals Hunter Biden worked on in Ukraine, China, and elsewhere.
Twitter initially banned the Post’s story on the social media platform. Users were blocked from posting the link to the story or direct messaging it to other users. Twitter also locked the Post’s account for weeks, saying that the Post’s story violated Twitter’s rules against “hacked materials” despite lacking evidence that the materials were obtained through hacking.
Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey later admitted that Twitter made a mistake in taking action against the Post over its Biden laptop story.
“We were called here today because of an enforcement decision we made against the New York Post based on a policy we created in 2018 to prevent Twitter from being used to spread hacked materials. This resulted in us blocking people from sharing a New York Post article publicly or privately,” Dorsey <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-ceo-admits-his-company-was-wrong-to-censor-hunter-biden-story" rel="noopener">said</a> in November 2020 testimony to Congress. “We made a quick interpretation using no other evidence that the materials in the article were obtained through hacking, and according to our policy, we blocked them from being spread. Upon further consideration, we admitted this action was wrong and corrected it within 24 hours.”
Ben Zeisloft contributed to this report. 
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Musk Releasing Files On How Twitter Suppressed Free Speech

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Business is booming at <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> with respect to new users after the social media platform was purchased by <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>, according to the billionaire entrepreneur, even though a significant number of advertisers have backed away from the company at the behest of activist groups.
Investor <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596718851097755648?s=43&amp;t=HvNXWvu3ZY4NYWBP0TdqzQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">slides</a> shared by Musk say that the daily inflow of new users has reached two million, while “user active minutes per day” likewise reached eight billion. The company now has more than 250 million monetizable daily active users, Musk says. All three metrics exceed previous company records.
Musk has been attempting to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musks-new-twitter-verification-process-devolves-into-a-confusing-mess" target="_blank" rel="noopener">avoid impersonations</a> by selling verification subscriptions for $8 per month, a policy that has repeatedly been <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-introduces-new-idea-to-twitter-and-kills-it-hours-later" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed and reintroduced</a>. The slides said that reported impersonations spiked after he took control of the company before falling once again.
The slides also show that purported hate speech impressions have been lower since Musk acquired the platform. Musk, who claimed he purchased Twitter to promote free expression and peaceful dialogue across the political spectrum, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-reveals-how-he-is-defining-hate-speech-on-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> last week that the company is still defining hate speech with “the same list of terms” implemented before the acquisition.
Musk also hinted at a number of new offerings from “Twitter 2.0,” including enhanced video content, long-form tweets, encrypted direct messages, and entertaining advertisements.
Account impersonations and Musk’s endorsement of some conservative figures have provoked ire among left-wing nonprofits, some of whom recently pressured advertisers to cease their relationship with the social media company. Several organizations endorsed a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/extremely-messed-up-elon-musk-blasts-activist-groups-for-pushing-advertisers-to-ditch-twitter-destroy-free-speech-in-america" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to the executives of major advertisers claiming that “extremists” consider the takeover “a new opportunity to post the most abusive, harassing, and racist language and imagery,” including “clear threats of violence against people with whom they disagree.”
According to a <a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/elon-musk/less-month-elon-musk-has-driven-away-half-twitters-top-100-advertisers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from left-wing organization Media Matters, one of the groups that signed the letter, as many as 50 of the top 100 advertisers on Twitter have “either announced or seemingly stopped” their campaigns on the platform. The companies have spent $2 billion on the platform over the past two years.
“Twitter has had a massive drop in revenue, due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists,” Musk confirmed earlier this month. “Extremely messed up! They’re trying to destroy free speech in America.”
The world’s richest man initially <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> advertisers that he acquired Twitter to “have a common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.” He vowed that the social media platform would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” where users could breach the law with impunity.
Musk has <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593385611632594944" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> that widespread coverage of the acquisition and his subsequent attempts to reform the company, including negative reports from mainstream outlets, has contributed to usage reaching record levels. He said his number-one priority is the <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595671290421170179" target="_blank" rel="noopener">removal</a> of child exploitation content from Twitter, which previous management neglected to accomplish. Several advertisers <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/major-companies-remove-advertisements-from-twitter-over-child-pornography-allegations" target="_blank" rel="noopener">paused campaigns</a> on the platform two months ago after a report showed that child sexual abuse material had appeared alongside major advertisers’ profiles.

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Elon Musk Reveals How Twitter’s Business Is Doing Under His Leadership

Elon Musk Reveals How Twitter's Business Is Doing Under His Leadership

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Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> said Thursday that he is defining hate speech on the platform based on the definitions that the platform used prior to Musk taking over.
Musk made the revelation in a tweet about how the company has cracked down on hate speech on the platform amid pressure from advertisers and left-wing activists.
&#8220;Hate speech impressions down by 1/3 from pre-spike levels,&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;Congrats to Twitter team!&#8221;
&#8220;I have half a mind to wag my finger at the 1500 accounts that caused the spike, but I shall forebear,&#8221; Musk continued. &#8220;Reducing the max allowed tweets/day to a number below what a speed typist on meth could do was helpful.&#8221;
Musk then responded to a question from DailyWire+ host Jordan Peterson about how he defines hate speech.
&#8220;This is simply based on the same list of terms that Twitter has used for some time, so ceteris paribus,&#8221; Musk responded.
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This is simply based on the same list of terms that Twitter has used for some time, so ceteris paribus
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Earlier in the day, Musk announced that he was going to grant a mass amnesty to accounts that had been previously banned on the platform.
Musk made the decision in response to the final results of a poll he tweeted Wednesday. The platform will begin unbanning accounts en masse, except for those who broke the law or engaged in excessive spam, next week, he tweeted in response to the results. Musk has already unbanned a number of popular accounts that were permanently suspended before he took over as “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chief-twit-elon-musk-arrives-at-twitters-headquarters-let-that-sink-in" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Chief Twit</a>.”
On Wednesday, Musk tweeted a poll asking whether or not to unban users that had been permanently suspended. “Should Twitter offer a general amnesty to suspended accounts, provided that they have not broken the law or engaged in egregious spam?” he wrote.
More than three million users voted in the poll, and the vote was overwhelmingly in favor of amnesty; nearly three-quarters of voters, 72.4%, voted “yes,” while just 27.6% voted “no.”
“The people have spoken,” Musk wrote after the poll concluded. “Amnesty begins next week. Vox Populi, Vox Dei.”
Before the poll ended, Musk seemed to indicate that in effect, the platform would significantly curtail content moderation to target illegal content and increase transparency.
John Rigolizzo contributed this report.

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Elon Musk Reveals How He Is Defining ‘Hate Speech’ On Twitter

Elon Musk Reveals How He Is Defining 'Hate Speech' On Twitter

Twitter is entertaining and informative under the benevolent internet king <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a>.
On Tuesday, the new owner aired out the social media giant&#8217;s woke dirty laundry — literally — while also exposing the fake narrative surrounding the 2014 police shooting of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/michael-brown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Michael Brown</a> in Ferguson, Missouri.
Musk — who is <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/16/tech/elon-musk-email-ultimatum-twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">practically living</a> at Twitter&#8217;s headquarters as he turns the ship around — shared a video this week, saying, &#8220;Found in closet at Twitter HQ [for real],&#8221; alongside two laughing emojis. As the footage shows, the richest man stumbled upon what looks like dozens of #StayWoke tee shirts.
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Found in closet at Twitter HQ fr 🤣🤣 <a href="https://t.co/3xSI3KvvHk">pic.twitter.com/3xSI3KvvHk</a>
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595250835096621057?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 23, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Where did these shirts come from?
Well, it would appear that the retro tees are from circa 2016. Jack Dorsey, the founder of Twitter and ex-CEO, wore the shirts to show support for the Black Lives Matter movement in wake of Ferguson.
&#8220;To me, my interpretation of what it means, and it has evolved a little bit over time, is really being aware, and staying aware, and keep questioning,&#8221; Dorsey said while <a href="https://www.esquire.com/style/news/a45458/jack-dorsey-stay-woke-shirt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">explaining</a> what #StayWoke meant to him. &#8220;Being awake, and eyes wide open around what&#8217;s happening in the world. We saw that in Ferguson, and what I didn&#8217;t really consider before I got there, that I saw on the ground, is what you see on the television screen versus what&#8217;s actually happening behind the camera.&#8221;
Of course, what happened in Ferguson is that an entirely false narrative that a teenager was shot by police while saying, &#8220;Hands up, don&#8217;t shoot,” which was driven by leftwing and BLM activists, aided and abetted by the media, spread like wildfire.
It was all a lie and multiple investigations proved that.
In 2016, former President Barack Obama&#8217;s own justice department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/doj_report_on_shooting_of_michael_brown_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">released</a> a lengthy report showing that Brown had attacked Officer Darren Wilson first — and with enough force that Wilson thought his life was in danger. Multiple witnesses supported this claim.
In fact, here&#8217;s how Jonathan Capehart, a columnist for The Washington Post, described what <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">happened</a> in 2015.
&#8220;What DOJ found made me ill,&#8221; Capehart said. &#8220;Wilson knew about the theft of the cigarillos from the convenience store and had a description of the suspects. Brown fought with the officer and tried to take his gun. And the popular hands-up storyline, which isn’t corroborated by ballistic and DNA evidence and multiple witness statements, was perpetuated by Witness 101.&#8221;
Capehart also acknowledged that the entire movement against police brutality was duped.
&#8220;Now that black lives matter to everyone, it is imperative that we continue marching for and giving voice to those killed in racially charged incidents at the hands of police and others,&#8221; Capehart <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/03/16/lesson-learned-from-the-shooting-of-michael-brown/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a>. &#8220;But we must never allow ourselves to march under the banner of a false narrative on behalf of someone who would otherwise offend our sense of right and wrong. And when we discover that we have, we must acknowledge it, admit our error and keep on marching. That’s what I’ve done here.&#8221;
But wait a minute: If Capehart wrote that in 2015, why was Dorsey still acting in 2016 as if the incident in Ferguson was something other than justified and according to the law?
Well, because leftists have been conned into thinking that Brown had his hands up and was shot. The <a class="c-link" tabindex="-1" href="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/police-black-killings-homicide-rates-race-injustice" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-stringify-link="https://www.manhattan-institute.org/police-black-killings-homicide-rates-race-injustice" data-sk="tooltip_parent" data-remove-tab-index="true">false left-wing narrative</a> that American police are systematically hunting down black Americans is still believed by many today — thanks in large part to the talking points spread by supporters of the BLM movement since Ferguson.
Yet it would seem Musk knows that.
One Twitter user responded to his video, “‘Hands up, don’t shoot&#8217; is one of the biggest hoaxes to come from the American left in the last decade. That big lie has inspired many to become radicalized and militant.&#8221;
Musk simply <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1595466497836843009?s=20&amp;t=C5luutyCO3t65lAKfkC88g" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a>, &#8220;True.&#8221;
The Telsa CEO also linked to the DOJ&#8217;s report on the matter.
So to recap — Musk is allowing more free speech on Twitter, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-and-skeleton-crew-take-on-problem-ousted-twitter-employees-ignored-child-exploitation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vanquishing child porn from the site</a>, and even dismantling and mocking woke liars. That&#8217;s great for the entire country.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

Elon Musk Airs Twitter’s Woke Dirty Laundry – Literally – And Exposes Fake Ferguson Narrative

Elon Musk Airs Twitter's Woke Dirty Laundry – Literally – And Exposes Fake Ferguson Narrative

A woman on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok">TikTok</a> participating in the viral trend of dancing to the Meghan Trainor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/music">song</a> “Made You Look” came under fire for relating the story of her husband’s tragic death while she danced.
Jessica Ayers, who uses the handle “thesingingwidow,” has since deleted the video from TikTok it generated so many negative comments, but it’s currently circulating on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media">Twitter</a> with 5.6 million views as of Wednesday. 
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my💃🏼husband💃🏼was💃🏼brutally💃🏼murdered💃🏼 <a href="https://t.co/Gj6tbEui2d">pic.twitter.com/Gj6tbEui2d</a>
&mdash; yasmin (@ycsm1n) <a href="https://twitter.com/ycsm1n/status/1594876674512146432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 22, 2022</a></blockquote>
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In the clip, on-screen captions narrate what happened while Ayers dances along to the upbeat music.
“Eight years ago, a man shot and killed my husband … 11 months later, the man who shot him was convicted of manslaughter,” the captions say. “On the day of his sentencing, I gave a speech. I told his killer our love story.”
“I also told him that if he ever started to feel sorry for himself, to remember my face. It remains one of my proudest moments in life,” she concluded.
Critics came after Ayers both on social media and in the comments. She later deleted the video. 
“The advent of tiktok and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race,” one person <a href="https://twitter.com/ycsm1n/status/1594877467365617666">shared</a>.
“Yep, her entire social media personality [centers] this traumatic experience for her and it’s a direct example of how social media takes advantage of the most susceptible of humanity&#8217;s desire for attention and walks them right off a cliff in terms of social behavior. sad,” the Twitter user <a href="https://twitter.com/ycsm1n/status/1594881288225587200" target="_blank" rel="noopener">added</a>.
While the original video is gone, Ayers posted a follow-up clip that features her answering the question, “Just curious why would you dance to something so traumatic?”
“Eight years ago, my entire life went up in flames,” she <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thesingingwidow/video/7168339715215740206?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1">replied</a>. “Everything I knew, everything I loved, right when I became a mom — literally my whole life blew up.”
“I made a decision, maybe a year and a half in, that I wasn’t going to let the grief take me down and turn me into a shell of the person that I used to be,” she continued. “… yeah, I’m f***ing dancing, because why not? I’m happy again, and I’m proud of how far I’ve come.”
“How many people that are on here being negative about me dancing because I’m happy again, can say that I made you look, right?”
<a href="https://www.newsherald.com/story/news/crime/2014/06/26/1-338468/33941512007/">According to</a> the Panama City News Herald, Justin Ayers, 33, was killed by a stray bullet fired by his neighbor Charles Edward Shisler in 2014. Justin was gathered with his family in his home to celebrate his 3-day-old baby coming home from the hospital. The bullet struck him in the back of the head, killing him instantly. Shisler later pleaded guilty to manslaughter and in May 2015 was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Jessica Ayers initially told her story to <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3761912/Jessica-Ayers-husband-Justin-Ayers-shot-killed-Charles-Shisler-Panama-City-writes-essay-grieving.html">The Daily Mail</a> that same year and published an essay on her blog about the tragedy. 
Critics of Ayers&#8217;s dance video compared it to another TikTok clip showing a mom who danced while her sick baby was in the hospital. In December 2021, Whitney Leavitt (username whitleavitt) posted a now-deleted <a href="https://www.distractify.com/p/tiktok-mom-dance-next-to-rsv-baby">video</a> of herself dancing to Kendrick Lamar’s &#8220;Love&#8221; right next to her son&#8217;s hospital bassinet.  
She captioned the video with text saying, &#8220;Lil Lee was taken in &#8217;cause of low oxygen. He tested positive for RSV. Waiting for him to breathe better on his own.&#8221;

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Widow On TikTok Goes Viral For Dancing About Her Husband’s Tragic Death

Widow On TikTok Goes Viral For Dancing About Her Husband's Tragic Death

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New Twitter CEO <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/elon-musk" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Elon Musk</a> announced Saturday evening that he will reinstate former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> Twitter account despite Trump having repeatedly stated that he will not use the platform again.
The announcement from Musk comes after more than 15 million people voted in a non-scientific poll that he posted to his account asking if Trump should be reinstated.
The results of the poll showed that 51.8% said, &#8220;yes,&#8221; while 48.2% said, &#8220;no.&#8221;
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Reinstate former President Trump
&mdash; Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1593767953706921985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2022</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The people have spoken,&#8221; Musk tweeted. &#8220;Trump will be reinstated.&#8221;
The former president has repeatedly stated that he will not come back to the platform even if Musk were to reinstate his account.
When news broke back in April that Musk was going to buy Twitter and take the company private, Trump responded by saying that he would not come back.
“I hope Elon buys Twitter because he&#8217;ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth,” Trump <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/trump-twitter-truth-social-elon-musk-ban-1755413">said</a>. “The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.”
Trump claimed last month that Twitter could not be &#8220;successful without&#8221; him and that he would not come back to the platform.
“I am staying on Truth. I like it better, I like the way it works, I like Elon, but I’m staying on Truth,” Trump <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-answers-whether-he-will-return-to-twitter-with-musk-at-the-helm">said</a> late last month. “If I choose to run, I will only use Truth.”
There are also contractual issues at play with Trump using Twitter as a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission said that Trump agreed to post all of his posts on Truth Social first and must wait at least six hours before he could post the same message to other social media platforms.
The filing <a href="https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1849635/000119312522150801/d226205ds4.htm#rom226205_13">states</a> that &#8220;President Trump has agreed to first channel any and all social media communications and posts coming from his personal profile to the Truth Social platform before posting that same social media communication and/or post to any other social media platform that is not Truth Social (collectively, &#8216;Non-TMTG Social Media&#8217;) until the expiration of &#8216;DJT/TMTG Social Media 6-Hour Exclusive&#8217; which means the period commencing when DJT posts any social media communication onto the Truth Social Platform and ending six (6) hours thereafter; provided that he may post social media communications from his personal profile that specifically relates to political messaging, political fundraising or get-out-the vote efforts at any time on any Non-TMTG social media platforms.&#8221;
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Elon Musk Reinstates Trump On Twitter; Trump Has Repeatedly Stated He Won’t Come Back

Elon Musk To Reinstate Trump On Twitter; Trump Has Repeatedly Stated He Won't Come Back

Donald Trump

Senator Rand Paul (R-KY), a fierce defender of American civil liberties, harshly confronted FBI Director Christopher Wray about the communication between social media companies and the FBI regarding social media users’ private information.
Paul’s withering questions were prompted by a House report detailing whistleblower claims of the FBI’s bias toward the political Left.
“Is Facebook or any other social media company supplying private messages or data on American users that is not compelled by the government or the FBI?” Paul asked Wray. “No warrant, no subpoena, they’re just supplying you information on their users?”
“I don’t believe so, but I can’t sit here and be sure of that as I sit here,” Wray replied.
“Can you give us a yes or no by going back to your team and asking? Because it’s a very specific question. Because if they are, it’s against the law,” Paul said, citing the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986. “This was done to protect the privacy of people so we could feel like we can send an email or direct message to people without having that information given over. It’s a very specific question: Will you get with your team of lawyers and give us a specific answer? Because this is the law. If you’re doing it, then we need to go to court to prevent you from receiving this information.”
“Well, I can tell you that I’m quite confident that we’re following the law — ” Wray began.
“Well, that’s not the answer — ” Paul interjected.
“ — but what I will also follow up with you to make sure we get you more information, more detailed information,” Wray finished.
“Is the FBI obtaining anonymous social media data and then using technical methods to pierce the anonymous nature of the data?” Paul fired.
Wray paused for a long moment, then, looking puzzled, replied, “Anonymous social media data?”
“So you purchase data,” Paul explained. “People purchase data all the time and we sort of tolerate it for advertisings and things because it’s anonymous data. Are you purchasing what is said to be anonymous data through the marketplace and then piercing the anonymous nature to attach individual names to that data? &#8230; Are you purchasing data and then piercing the anonymous nature of that data?”
“So the manner in which we use — we usually use the term commercial data — is probably longer that I can explain here, But again, let me — ” Wray dodged.
“So you will not answer the question of whether or not you’re attaching names to anonymous data,” Paul charged.
“I think it’s a more complicated answer than I can give here,” Wray answered.
“So. So far we’re 0 for 2 at getting you to answer this, but you’re pledging you will actually answer the question, because you have to realize the frustration; we’ll write you a letter and your team of lawyers will write back with a 15-page letter that says nothing and you won’t answer the question. These are very specific. This is whether you’re obeying the law, whether we can have confidence. I want to have confidence,” Paul declared.
“We are obeying the law,” Wray insisted.
“Well, you’re saying that, but you won’t tell us the answer,” Paul stated. “You aren’t telling me the answer. And the answer is: Are you collecting data not compelled by a warrant? That would not be in compliance with the law. But you won’t answer that you’re not collecting that data.”
Later, Paul asked, “Are you getting tips and leads from social media companies?”
“We get tips and leads from companies, absolutely,” Wray admitted.
“You may think this is jolly well to get all this stuff without a warrant that people volunteer to you, but many of us are alarmed that you’re getting this information that are private communications between people because it is against the law; it’s against the law for Facebook or social media companies to give it to you, but it’s also against the law for you to receive it,” Paul concluded.
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‘You Won’t Answer The Question’: Rand Paul Grills FBI’s Wray On Getting Private Info From Facebook, Social Media Companies

Rand Paul Grills FBI’s Wray On Getting Private Info From Facebook, Social Media Companies

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Hundreds of employees at <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/twitter" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a> have reportedly decided to resign from the company after CEO Elon Musk demanded that in order to stay at the company they would need to commit to “extremely hardcore&#8221; working conditions.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/technology/twitter-elon-musk-ftc.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that the company was in disarray Thursday afternoon as the deadline approached as &#8220;hundreds of Twitter employees appeared to have decided to depart with three months of severance pay.&#8221;
The news comes after Musk let go of approximately half of the company&#8217;s 7,500 full-time employees earlier this month in an attempt to cut out bloat because the company is not profitable.
&#8220;Going forward, to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore,&#8221; Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/read-it-elon-musk-tells-twitter-staff-to-work-long-hours-at-high-intensity-or-hit-the-road" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote in an email</a> to employees this week. &#8220;This will mean working long hours at high intensity. Only exceptional performance will constitute a passing grade.&#8221;
&#8220;Twitter will also be much more engineering-driven,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;Design and product management will still be very important and report to me, but those writing great code will constitute the majority of our team and have the greatest sway. At its heart, Twitter is a software and servers company, so I think this makes sense.&#8221;
The email instructed employees to click on a link if they wanted to be &#8220;part of the new Twitter.&#8221; The email added that anyone who did not click the link by 5 p.m. EST would &#8220;receive three months of severance.&#8221;
Musk and his team held meetings with some of the “critical” people at the company that they were trying to persuade into staying. There were questions about whether Twitter would be able to continue operating with so many key personnel leaving the company.
Twitter reportedly closed all office buildings temporarily until November 21st and suspended all badge access, the Platformer reported.
“We&#8217;re hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company,” the publication said. “Also, they&#8217;re still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.”
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We&#39;re hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company. Also, they&#39;re still trying to figure out which Twitter workers they need to cut access for.
&mdash; Zoë Schiffer (@ZoeSchiffer) <a href="https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593391954301054976?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 17, 2022</a></blockquote>
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Twitter Pauses Verification Service After Chaos

The Purge Continues: Hundreds Of Twitter Employees Resign Over Musk’s ‘Extremely Hardcore’ Ultimatum, Report Says

Hundreds Of Twitter Employees Resign Over Musk’s ‘Extremely Hardcore’ Ultimatum, Report Says

Dr. <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/jordan-peterson" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jordan B. Peterson</a> said that social media platforms are contributing to a &#8220;pollution&#8221; of public discourse.
Appearing on &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&amp;v=UtmItBYn3E8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Piers Morgan Uncensored</a>&#8221; Friday, Peterson refuted the idea that social media contributes to tribalism and polarization in politics. Instead, Peterson said that social media incentivizes anti-social and self-promoting behavior among users. Peterson cited a paper in the psychology journal Personality and Individual Differences, which found that certain personality traits lead users to spend more time on social media.
“I don&#8217;t think we are descending into tribalism,&#8221; Peterson said. &#8220;I think what&#8217;s happening is that the virtualization of the world is enabling people who behave in a particular&#8230; [self-aggrandizing] self-promoting anti-social way.&#8221;
Peterson then cited an article published in the journal <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191886922004652" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Personality and Individual Differences</a>, entitled &#8220;Social media use and personality: Beyond self-reports and trait-level assessments.&#8221; Among its findings, the paper found that women whose personalities were characterized by traits like narcissism, meanness, extroversion, and sadism used social media platforms like Instagram for longer and more frequently than men. Women who exhibited sadistic personalities used Facebook for a longer time than women with honest, humble, and conscientious ones; they also used the site for longer than men.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve thought for a while that one of the things that&#8217;s happening to us as we virtualize the world is that we&#8217;re enabling us the small percentage of people — it&#8217;s usually about three percent in general populations — who use manipulation and reputation savaging and denigration and self-promotion, so the genuinely psychopathic types, to dominate the social conversation and to spew their poisonous and manipulative venom into the public domain,&#8221; Peterson said. &#8220;Not only with no fear of being stopped and no inhibition &#8230; but also while being monetized and promoted by the people who run the social media channels.”
&#8220;I think the polarization that we&#8217;re feeling is a consequence of their untrammeled expression online — Instagram, Facebook and in online comment forums like Twitter,&#8221; he added.
&#8220;What&#8217;s happening in some sense is that we have a new form of pollution, that&#8217;s also corporate sponsored, and it&#8217;s pollution of the domain of public discourse,&#8221; Peterson continued. &#8220;And the pollution occurs because the social media companies are either enabling or failing to control those known in the popular parlance as &#8216;trolls.&#8217; But they&#8217;re not just comical trolls, using derision in some cute way and and having their say in the Free Speech domain. They&#8217;re really poisonous individuals and they&#8217;re poisoning the entire domain.&#8221; Peterson then called for social media companies to segregate comments sections to filter out anonymous trolls.
At the end of the interview, Morgan asked Peterson if he would like to be reinstated on Twitter now that CEO Elon Musk is promoting free speech on the site. Peterson said he wouldn&#8217;t.
&#8220;It&#8217;s such a den of pathology that using it I think is psychologically damaging,&#8221; he said. &#8220;If it&#8217;s possible for Musk to get the trolls — and they&#8217;re not trolls, they&#8217;re psychopathic, Machiavellian, sadistic narcissists — under control, then it&#8217;s possible that the platform might be useful. I like to share information. I like to follow people to see what they were up to, a lot of the people that I&#8217;ve met over the years, but man, it&#8217;s a snake pit, and it&#8217;s not obvious to me that we know what to do about it.&#8221;

The Self-styled “Professor Against Political Correctness” Jordan Peterson Speaks To The Cambridge Union

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson: Social Media Is Part Of ‘Pollution Of The Domain Of Public Discourse’

Dr. Jordan B. Peterson: Social Media Is Part Of 'Pollution Of The Domain Of Public Discourse'

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