YouTube will no longer remove content on its platform that says widespread voter fraud happened during the 2020 election and other U.S. elections in a move that will likely have consequences for the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-releases-statement-on-desantis-entering-2024-race" target="_blank" rel="noopener">2024 presidential campaign</a>, according to a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/06/02/us-election-fraud-youtube-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Axios.
The video platform’s policy reversal comes as the 2024 presidential primaries heat up. Former President Donald Trump, who leads Republican primary polling, continues to challenge the results of the 2020 election, claiming widespread voter fraud took the election away from him and put President Joe Biden in the White House.
&#8220;Two years, tens of thousands of video removals, and one election cycle later, we recognized it was time to reevaluate the effects of this policy in today&#8217;s changed landscape,&#8221; YouTube said in a statement, according to Axios. &#8220;With that in mind, and with 2024 campaigns well underway, we will stop removing content that advances false claims that widespread fraud, errors, or glitches occurred in the 2020 and other past US Presidential elections.&#8221;
YouTube said it “carefully deliberated” before making the surprising change to its policy, but did not provide specific details on what caused the Big Tech company to reverse course. The new policy takes effect on Friday.
In March, YouTube <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youtube-restores-donald-trumps-account">reversed course</a> on another decision, allowing Trump back onto the platform after banning him following the January 6 riot on Capitol Hill. On that day, the former president encouraged lawmakers and his vice president to refuse the certification of the 2020 election.
The Republican Party is divided on Trump’s denial of the 2020 election results, with many arguing that it’s time to move on from the past and focus on how the party can win future elections. Trump has been <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/us/politics/election-denial-republicans.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">heavily criticized</a> by Republicans for continuing to deny his presidential election loss, with some GOP strategists blaming the former president for the Republican Party’s underwhelming performance in the 2022 midterm elections. The former president, however, maintains a large base of loyal supporters who defend his claims of a stolen election.
YouTube, which was bought by Google in 2006, said it will continue to stifle content it deems “election misinformation,” which includes videos “aiming to mislead voters about the time, place, means, or eligibility requirements for voting; false claims that could materially discourage voting, including those disputing the validity of voting by mail; and content that encourages others to interfere with democratic processes.&#8221;
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The company transitioned leadership after Susan Wojcicki <a href="https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/a-personal-update-from-susan/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced</a> in February that she would step down from her role as chief executive. Neal Mohan, who was formerly YouTube’s chief product officer, stepped into the CEO position. Mohan has <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-50733180">said</a> he wants “robust debate” on the platform, but he has also defended removing videos that “maliciously insult someone.”

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With the explosion of apps like <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tiktok" target="_blank" rel="noopener">TikTok</a> has come a surge of prankster videos.
But while some might be funny, others could be deadly.
Take Tanner Cook, 21, who is a YouTube &#8220;influencer&#8221; known for recording pranks at shopping malls.
His father said Cook was filming a prank at the Dulles Town Center Mall in Sterling, Virginia, last month that involved Google’s translate feature, Fox 29 <a href="https://www.fox29.com/news/youtube-certified-goons-creator-shot-filming-prank-virginia-mall-food-court">reported</a>. Cook posts videos on Classified Goons, which has more than 50,000 subscribers.
&#8220;He has a YouTube channel, and he goes to malls, and he tries to have fun and do goofy stuff and try to get people to laugh to watch his videos,&#8221; dad Jeremy Cook said. &#8220;This guy wasn&#8217;t laughing. He wasn&#8217;t having a fun time, and decided to shoot my son because he was offended. It&#8217;s too bad people today seem to take getting offended too far.&#8221;
That unamused guy was Alan Colie, 31. He reportedly was offended and shot Cook in the stomach.
He faces several felony charges, including aggravated malicious wounding, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony and discharging a firearm within a building.
Cook told <a href="https://kotaku.com/youtube-prankster-tanner-cook-shot-practical-joke-mall-1850300480">WUSA9</a> that Colie didn’t say anything, just pulled out a gun and shot him. &#8220;I was just playing a prank, a simple practical joke, and this guy didn’t take it very well and shot me.&#8221;
But Colie&#8217;s lawyer Adam Pouilliard said Cook “antagonized” his client, WUSA9 <a href="https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/crime/youtuber-could-be-charged-dulles-town-center-shooting/65-053e5187-e337-484b-8dfd-588ebc412a9e">reported</a>. Colie was “targeted, harassed, accosted, and followed” by Cook at the mall. &#8220;The nature of the prank involved Cook using Google Translate to play the phrase &#8216;I think you smell.'&#8221;
&#8220;Deputy Commonwealth Attorney Anthony Needham said Colie told Cook to &#8216;leave him alone&#8217; and even swatted the phone out of his face, but Cook was &#8216;as close as six inches away'&#8221; when Colie allegedly pulled his gun.
Meanwhile, Isaiah Collazo, 18, of Staten Island was aboard a train in New York City when his friend jokingly pulled the emergency brake on the rail car for a video, according to police.
Mark Smith, 25, was not amused. He&#8217;s been charged with stabbing the teen in the stomach. Collazo later died.
“So what we have is Collazo and his friends, they’re on the platform,” NYPD Chief of Detectives James Essig <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/11/nyc-straphanger-18-was-killed-over-emergency-brake-prank-cops/">told</a> the New York Post. “They finally get on a train as it pulls in about a quarter after 11.&#8221;
“His friend pulls the thing. This guy confronts him, ‘What the hell did you do that for?’” Essig said of the brake “prank.&#8221; “There’s sort of a scrum, pulls out a knife, hits him, stabs him.”
“It’s a stupid kid prank,” Essig said of the incident.
Then there was Timothy Wilks, 20, of Nashville. He died after he was shot during what his friend told police was supposed to be a YouTube prank robbery.
Police said Wilks and a friend approached a group of people, including David Starnes Jr., 23, wielding butcher knives. Starnes admitted to police that he shot Wilks but he said he did so because he thought he and his friends were in danger, <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/claudiakoerner/youtube-robbery-prank-killed-nashville">according</a> to Buzzfeed News.
The views expressed in this piece are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.
Joseph Curl has covered politics for 35 years, including 12 years as White House correspondent for a national newspaper. He was also the a.m. editor of the Drudge Report for four years. Send tips to josephcurl@dailywire.com and follow him on Twitter @josephcurl.

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Daily Wire podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/matt-walsh">Matt Walsh</a> sent a message on Friday to those on the Left &#8220;celebrating&#8221; his &#8220;demise&#8221; and said he can&#8217;t be canceled after his show became the most popular news podcast on Spotify.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-matt-walsh-show">The Matt Walsh Show</a>&#8221; host had nothing but praise for his followers when he tweeted a screenshot of this week&#8217;s top U.S. news podcasts, showing The Daily Wire host sitting at the top of the list.
&#8220;Last week I was demonetized by YouTube, then hacked, and the Left was celebrating my demise,&#8221; Walsh tweeted to his 1.7 million followers.
&#8220;This week I have the number one podcast in the category on Spotify,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Thanks for all of your support. You&#8217;re the reason they can&#8217;t cancel me.&#8221;
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Last week I was demonetized by YouTube, then hacked, and the Left was celebrating my demise. This week I have the number one podcast in the category on Spotify. Thanks for all of your support. You’re the reason they can’t cancel me. <a href="https://t.co/PtZ0BWegAc">pic.twitter.com/PtZ0BWegAc</a>
&mdash; Matt Walsh (@MattWalshBlog) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog/status/1651964423731281921?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 28, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Walsh&#8217;s show was in the number one spot, followed by The New York Times&#8217; &#8220;The Daily&#8221; podcast and Sirius XM&#8217;s &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; podcast in the second and third spots, respectively.
During his show on Monday, Walsh shared that in response to YouTube trying to stop him and the hacking of his phone, he would make his daily podcast available on Twitter.
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YouTube has threatened to ban us if we don’t affirm gender ideology. They want me to either surrender my principles or become irrelevant. 
So starting today, every episode of this show will be posted on <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a>, which is now the most powerful free speech platform in the world. <a href="https://t.co/hCiqdgxm3s">pic.twitter.com/hCiqdgxm3s</a>
&mdash; The Matt Walsh Show (@MattWalshShow) <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshShow/status/1650603708252831745?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 24, 2023</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;YouTube has threatened to ban us if we don&#8217;t affirm gender ideology,&#8221; the host tweeted. &#8220;They want me to either surrender my principles or become irrelevant.&#8221;
&#8220;So starting today, every episode of this show will be posted on [Twitter], which is now the most powerful free speech platform in the world,&#8221; he added.
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During the same episode, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/matt-walsh-sends-message-to-those-sending-death-me-threats-hacking-my-accounts-and-trying-to-blackmail-me">Walsh</a> also sent a message to those sending him &#8220;death threats,&#8221; &#8220;hacking my accounts, and trying to blackmail me&#8221; that he will never stop speaking the truth.
&#8220;There is a wide consensus on the Left that I deserve to be killed,&#8221; the podcast host said. &#8220;They have made that point abundantly clear. But the good news is we&#8217;re not taking any of this lying down … and if the people who did this aren&#8217;t nervous right now, they should be.&#8221;
&#8220;I still will not back down by an inch or compromise at all,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I&#8217;ve told you many times that I would rather be dead than surrender to these people and I meant it.&#8221;
&#8220;So to all the people who are sending me death threats and posting my home address, and hacking my accounts, and trying to blackmail me, and threaten me,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Giving away my personal information, mass reporting me to get me de-platformed, and all the rest of it, I want you to know that nothing you have done, or will do, or could do will ever make me shut up.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/step-aside-matt-walsh-tells-gop-establishment-youre-wrong-bud-light-boycott-matters">&#8216;Step Aside&#8217;: Matt Walsh Tells GOP Establishment You&#8217;re Wrong, Bud Light Boycott Matters</a>

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Popular YouTube children&#8217;s show MrBeast has gone woke after his biological male friend Chris Tyson, who often appears in his videos, recently revealed he&#8217;s taking hormones and is undergoing a gender transition.
Jimmy Donaldson, aka ‘MrBeast,’ launched the platform in 2012 and has gained millions of young fans over the last decade as he and his friends like Tyson do crazy, wild stunts, and viral challenges. As of April 2023, the 24-year-old influencer is one of the most popular YouTubers on the site with more than <a href="https://twitter.com/MrBeast_Stats/status/1647684060427309058?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">300 million subscribers</a> across 19 domestic and international channels. His videos have been translated into 11 languages, <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/02/24/mrbeast-launches-new-youtube-feature-for-his-135-million-followers/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a> noted.
His average follower is <a href="http://www.piratemedia1.com/opinion/article_7a140650-fb70-11e9-aaac-8737f18406be.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">younger than 18</a> and his channel is designed for young adults and children. Over the last few months, MrBeast&#8217;s sidekick has gone from looking like one of his guy pals to looking “more and more feminine,&#8221; subjecting millions of children worldwide to his public transformation and changing the &#8220;entire dynamic of the show,&#8221; as Daily Wire Editor Emeritus Ben Shapiro <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oislTAb8Cng" target="_blank" rel="noopener">noted</a> on a recent episode of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/the-ben-shapiro-show/ep-1707-world-famous-you-tuber-mr-beast-hit-with-trans-controversy" target="_blank" rel="noopener">“The Ben Shapiro Show</a>.”
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Informed consent HRT saved my and many others&#39; lives. The hurdles gnc people have to jump through to get life-saving gender-affirming healthcare in a 1st world country is wild to me. Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies <a href="https://t.co/xvQjjx7cIB">https://t.co/xvQjjx7cIB</a>
&mdash; Chris (@Christhealtgod) <a href="https://twitter.com/Christhealtgod/status/1643781319644545024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/CVvzlUmPjDP/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tyson</a> is a 26-year old man who tied the knot with fellow influencer Katie Tyson in 2018 and the two share a 2-year-old son together. In March 2023, before announcing he was taking hormones, <a href="https://twitter.com/Christhealtgod/status/1640577051999588352?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Tyson</a> shared that the pair had been separated since 2022.
Earlier this month, Tyson tweeted about taking HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) when one Twitter user noted how different the sidekick looked.
&#8220;I&#8217;m genuinely so glad so many people are learning what HRT is and how it CAN and HAS helped so many people because of my tweet,&#8221; Tyson <a href="https://twitter.com/chris/status/1643812143991513089?s=20" target="_blank" rel="noopener">wrote</a> in April. &#8220;But seeing conversations started [because] of me is amazing.&#8221;
&#8220;Informed consent HRT saved my and many others&#8217; lives,&#8221; Tyson added. &#8220;The hurdles GNC people have to jump through to get life-saving gender-affirming healthcare in a 1st world country is wild to me. Just let people make informed decisions about their own bodies.&#8221;
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I know I’m going to be a great parent, and so is every other person who puts the love of their child before everything. I made this decision because I wanted to show up as my best and happiest self for him. In a way, this way FOR Tucker 💜
&mdash; Chris (@chris) <a href="https://twitter.com/chris/status/1643973694178426880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 6, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Later, Tyson faced a backlash for the move subjecting not only millions of kids to the transgender push, but also his own son Tucker, who critics said was losing a much needed father figure in his life.
He hit back and wrote, &#8220;I know I&#8217;m going to be a great parent, and so is every other person who puts the love of their child before everything. I made this decision because I wanted to show up as my best and happiest self for him. In a way, this way FOR Tucker.&#8221;
In a follow-up <a href="https://twitter.com/Christhealtgod/status/1646571940239343616?s=20">tweet</a> Tyson wrote, &#8220;I won&#8217;t let people talk about how I &#8216;abandoned my child.&#8217; He is the only priority in my life. I have his love and support and that is all I need. I&#8217;m doing this for him. If that confuses you, educate yourself. It that makes you mad. Leave. Simple. &#8220;
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Yeah, this is getting absurd. Chris isn’t my “nightmare” he’s my fucken friend and things are fine. All this transphobia is starting to piss me off
&mdash; MrBeast (@MrBeast) <a href="https://twitter.com/MrBeast/status/1646552879136636936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 13, 2023</a></blockquote>
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MrBeast has seen the criticism and defended his pal, calling the backlash transphobic when he responded to a tweet with a headline that read, &#8220;Why Chris Will Soon Be A Nightmare For MrBeast.&#8221;
&#8220;Yeah, this is getting absurd,&#8221; Donaldson tweeted. &#8220;Chris isn&#8217;t my &#8216;nightmare&#8217; he&#8217;s my f***en friend and things are fine. All this transphobia is starting to piss me off.&#8221; MrBeast made that tweet on April 13 and has yet to say anything further.
Tyson&#8217;s changes have not escaped fans of the show either, as <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2023/04/14/mrbeast-is-introducing-millions-of-children-to-transgenderism-without-parental-consent/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Federalist</a> noted. The writer wrote that his 9- and 7-year-old kids have noticed Tyson&#8217;s gone from appearing very masculine with facial hair to none at all, sporting longer hair, painted nails and dressing in sweaters for ladies.
&#8220;He&#8217;s acting weird,&#8221; the writer wrote about his conversation with his son. And his daughter said, &#8220;He [Tyson] wants everyone to see his nails and hair. He keeps showing them off. He drops things on purpose just so he can pick them up with his nails.&#8221; He said Tyson&#8217;s changes forced their family to have a &#8220;conversation&#8221; about what was going on with Chris, with his kids deciding they didn&#8217;t want to watch the show anymore, the outlet noted.
During a recent appearance by Daily Wire podcast host Michael Knowles on the Sirius XM &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lr69H_Ldjs" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Megyn Kelly Show</a>&#8221; podcast, the former Fox News host and Knowles talked about MrBeast&#8217;s sidekick&#8217;s trans transformation.
Knowles said the move by Tyson brings up a bigger question about what is going on when a guy who’s almost 30 just wakes up one day and &#8220;after getting married, after having a kid, after being a dude for his whole life, one day he just decided that he&#8217;s a woman.&#8221;
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&#8220;And what I strongly suspect is that one of the drivers of this is something that no one wants to talk about with the transgender explosion,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And that is pornography.&#8221;
The two then talked about how Tyson had had &#8220;all sorts of strange posts about really bizarre types of pornography&#8221; and Knowles said that the only reason he brought it up is to show that MrBeast&#8217;s sidekick is &#8220;fluent in the language of pornography.&#8221;
Kelly said that they had discussed it on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePb1nN4H5LA" target="_blank" rel="noopener">show</a> previously calling &#8220;this particular anime&#8221; ‘dark’&#8221; and said that once a person gets married and has children, it&#8217;s &#8220;utterly selfish and inhumane to go through with this&#8221; trans move.

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Daily Wire podcast host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/author/matt-walsh">Matt Walsh</a> used his return to his show on Monday to send a message to those sending him &#8220;death threats,&#8221; &#8220;hacking my accounts, and trying to blackmail me&#8221; that he will never stop speaking the truth.
&#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/the-matt-walsh-show">The Matt Walsh Show</a>&#8221; host talked about what happened to him a week earlier when his Twitter account was hacked and his phone stopped working, alerting him to the realization that the hack &#8220;went far beyond Twitter.&#8221;
&#8220;And this hacker did, he got into my text messages, my DM&#8217;s, my emails, everything,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;Leftist and trans activists were giddy, they were cheering on the attack. They begged for my private messages to be released. They said that I deserved to be the victim of this federal crime.&#8221;
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&#8220;There is a wide consensus on the left that I deserve to be killed,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They have made that point abundantly clear. But the good news is we&#8217;re not taking any of this lying down &#8230; and if the people who did this aren&#8217;t nervous right now, they should be.&#8221;
The host said he wasn&#8217;t explaining all he was going through to make people feel &#8220;sorry for&#8221; him and said that none of it has &#8220;dissuaded&#8221; him &#8220;even slightly.&#8221;
&#8220;I still will not back down by an inch or compromise at all,&#8221; Walsh said. &#8220;I&#8217;ve told you many times that I would rather be dead than surrender to these people and I meant it.&#8221;
&#8220;So to all the people who are sending me death threats and posting my home address, and hacking my accounts, and trying to blackmail me, and threaten me,&#8221; he added. &#8220;Giving away my personal information, mass reporting me to get me de-platformed, and all the rest of it, I want you to know that nothing you have done, or will do, or could do will ever make me shut up.&#8221;
&#8220;It will never happen,&#8221; the podcast host continued. &#8220;None of your schemes have worked or can ever work. It&#8217;s all futile. Your efforts are hopeless. The truth is the truth. And I will never pretend otherwise. I am not here to be make a martyr of myself &#8230; I want us to win. And we will.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/step-aside-matt-walsh-tells-gop-establishment-youre-wrong-bud-light-boycott-matters">&#8216;Step Aside’: Matt Walsh Tells GOP Establishment You&#8217;re Wrong, Bud Light Boycott Matters</a>

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Daily Wire host <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/matt-walsh" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Matt Walsh</a> said Wednesday that YouTube temporarily demonetized his channel for talking truthfully about trans activist Dylan Mulvaney — but then revealed how he will be fighting back.
Walsh, speaking at the University of Iowa on the topic of transgenderism, announced that his full show would now be available for free on DailyWire+ and on Twitter. Unlike YouTube, neither The Daily Wire nor Twitter will demand that Walsh kowtow to leftism.
“If I simply respect the preferred pronouns and stop accurately gendering people, then I can likely continue to do my show on the platform, get it remonetized after a short probationary period, and continue making over $100,000 a month on YouTube ads,” Walsh said.
“In other words, all I have to do to keep the money and the platform is give up my integrity and my soul,” he added. “And to that I say: hell no. No way.”
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Walsh’s YouTube channel will still publish select content for his 2.3 million subscribers, but the full show will only be available on platforms that allow him to speak the truth unabridged. He described the decision to pull the full show from the platform as easy.
“I will not give my show to YouTube if it means I have to cooperate with and affirm the very ideology that I’ve been battling all this time,” he added.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> on being demonetized on YouTube:
&quot;If I simply respect the preferred pronouns&#8230;then I can likely continue to do my show on the platform&#8230;I&#39;d rather you kick me off of every platform &amp; banish me to Mars than use someone&#39;s preferred pronouns.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/dgNbPzm7Lf">pic.twitter.com/dgNbPzm7Lf</a>
&mdash; Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDailyWire/status/1648848128269852675?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 20, 2023</a></blockquote>
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Jeremy Boreing, co-CEO of The Daily Wire, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/daily-wire-co-ceo-reveals-secret-cancel-blitz-against-matt-walsh-brett-cooper-michael-knowles" target="_blank" rel="noopener">revealed</a> Wednesday that there was an onslaught of cancellation campaigns targeting Walsh, as well as his fellow Daily Wire hosts Brett Cooper and Michael Knowles. This week, Knowles was evacuated from the University of Pittsburgh due to violent protesters who showed up during his speech, and Cooper was permanently banned from TikTok.
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Boreing called out tech giants YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok for “capricious” fact-checks, demonetizations, and bans against the Daily Wire hosts. He also revealed that software companies HubSpot and JW Player have abruptly canceled service with his company from their platforms, as event management site Eventbrite did previously.
Boreing, like Walsh, promised that he won’t give in to the Left’s demands.
“YouTube wants to keep Matt Walsh from being able to monetize because they know it will drastically stunt his growth and make his content far less viral. They expect us to throw a fit and play right into their hands. We won’t,” he said.
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Daily Wire co-CEO Jeremy Boreing shot back at Big Tech and the Left Wednesday, revealing an onslaught of cancellation campaigns targeting Daily Wire hosts Matt Walsh, Brett Cooper, and Michael Knowles.
Boreing called out tech giants YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok for “capricious” fact-checks, demonetizations, and bans against the Daily Wire hosts. He also revealed that software companies HubSpot and JW Player have abruptly canceled service with his company from their platforms, as event management site Eventbrite did previously. Boreing&#8217;s thread also comes after Walsh’s Twitter and email accounts were hacked Tuesday night.
“You may be aware that Matt Walsh had his Twitter account hacked last night. What you may not know is that the attack went well beyond Twitter,” Boreing said. “The hackers have managed to gain access to, well, everything, including twenty years of Matt&#8217;s emails.”
“What scandalous information will the hackers find in Matt&#8217;s email?” he asked. “I do not know. I&#8217;m sure I said things in my twenties that I wouldn&#8217;t feel great having aired publicly. What will The Daily Wire’s response be to things 20-year-old Matt may have said? LOL.” 
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You may be aware that <a href="https://twitter.com/MattWalshBlog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@MattWalshBlog</a> had his <a href="https://twitter.com/Twitter?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Twitter</a> account hacked last night. 
What you may not know is that the attack went well beyond Twitter. 
The hackers have managed to gain access to, well, everything, including twenty years of Matt&#39;s emails.
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“This hack, as terrible and invasive as it is, is just another day at the office for us. Here is a brief look at just the last 48 hours at The Daily Wire,” Boreing said. 
“First, Matt Walsh was demonetized on YouTube for violating some opaque, arbitrarily applied standard or another related to speaking the biological truth about Dylan Mulvaney,&#8221; Boreing continued. &#8220;I can&#8217;t be more specific because the capriciousness is the point for these platforms. Just 24 hours later, Brett Cooper was PERMANENTLY BANNED from TikTok. Her crime? I don&#8217;t know, because, again, the capriciousness is the point.”
“At the exact moment Matt Walsh was being hacked by criminals, Michael Knowles was being evacuated from the University of Pittsburgh because of a violent riot protesting his speech in which trans activists and sundry other leftists BURNED MICHAEL IN EFFIGY and tussled with police,” the Daily Wire co-CEO added. “That&#8217;s just the last 48 hours, and that&#8217;s in addition to all of the usual death threats, harassment, and corporate targeting that are our daily companions at The Daily Wire.”
“Do assholes on the Right make death threats against, say, AOC? Sure. And damn them for it. The difference for us is that virtually every institution in public life agrees we should be removed and silenced.”
Boreing then revealed how Big Tech is censoring content from The Daily Wire.
“Tech giants like YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, and — until Elon Musk wrote a check — Twitter, flagging, banning, throttling, shadow banning, and demonetizing us is a constant occurrence,” he said. “We&#8217;re continually fact checked. Almost all of the fact checks are removed on appeal, btw, but not before they have the desired effect of stunting our reach and effectiveness and making it impossible to earn revenue. Billionaire-funded non-profits like Media Matters pay people to post out-of-context clips from our shows and to pressure advertisers not to spend money with us.”
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Boreing then ripped into the policies social media giants use to censor political content. 
“The entire advertising industry creates bogus, euphemistic policies to ‘protect brand safety’ by discouraging advertising on shows with ‘controversial political opinions,’” he said. “BTW: If you&#8217;re openly pro-choice, that&#8217;s not a controversial political opinion that could compromise brand safety. If you&#8217;re pro-life, that is. This means we don&#8217;t get any so-called brand advertisers &#8211; the ones who pay almost double.”
Left-wing companies never face these multi-faceted attacks, he said.
“Think about that. If we were on the Left, and all of our positions were CERTIFIED BRAND SAFE!, we would make almost twice as much money. Twice as much to pay staff, healthcare, rent, marketing, growth…” Boreing continued.
“The advertisers we do get &#8211; the ones who believe Americans who think what every American thought five seconds ago still deserve good products &#8211; have to be brave enough to stand up against all of the organized pressure that comes their way. All this while also dealing with organizations like HubSpot, JW Player, Eventbrite, and many other backend infrastructure companies who take our money and then decide we don&#8217;t deserve to use their services and kick us off their platforms.”
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“Why do they hate us?” Boreing asked. “Well, because we&#8217;re free. We&#8217;re one of the last truly independent media companies. The majority and controlling interest in this company is held by Ben Shapiro, Caleb Robinson, and me. No one can tell us what to publish, what to say, what to do. No investor or board of directors can maneuver us into acquiescing to their demands or expressing their values. We only express our own.”
“And we&#8217;re smart. We don&#8217;t let the machinations of the left force our hand.” 
The Daily Wire god-king promised that he won’t give into the Left’s demands. 
“YouTube wants to keep Matt Walsh from being able to monetize because they know it will drastically stunt his growth and make his content far less viral. They expect us to throw a fit and play right into their hands. We won&#8217;t,” he said.
“We&#8217;ll play smart. We&#8217;ll continue to say what we believe, but we won&#8217;t let them minimize us and bar our access to two billion potential users. We&#8217;re not in it for catharsis; we&#8217;re in it for victory,” Boreing continued. “And, of course, we&#8217;ll leverage our influence to hold YouTube, TikTok, and all the rest accountable. We&#8217;ll press our claims in court, through government, and with the public. We won&#8217;t make it easy for them to make us less successful and less effective. Nope.”
Boreing said that Big Tech companies target The Daily Wire because it’s a conservative company that is succeeding in a space leftists want all for themselves. 
“And that&#8217;s what they hate the most: not only do we say what we believe, not only do we find a way to continue to succeed on their platforms, but we win,” he said.
“The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro sue the Biden Admin to stop the OSHA Vax Mandate, and win. Matt Walsh works to change laws around the mutilation of children, and he wins. We launch new companies like Jeremy’s Razors to compete with the woke hegemony, and we win,” Boreing said.
“That&#8217;s what keeps us fighting. We believe success is possible. Not promised, not easy. Possible. We believe we can preserve our values for another generation. And we&#8217;re having a damn good time doing it,” he added. 
“Hell, I&#8217;m looking forward to pressing charges on the Walsh hackers!”

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The mother of a teenage <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube">YouTube</a> creator is set to be in court Monday following allegations of sexually, physically, and emotionally abusing 11 of her daughter’s friends and co-creators.
Tiffany Smith is the mother of 15-year-old YouTube star Piper Rockelle. The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/teenagers">teen</a> has more than ten million subscribers and nearly two billion views on her channel, which was demonetized in February 2022. 
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/lawsuit">lawsuit</a> was filed in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, in January 2023. Plaintiffs are 11 former members of the &#8220;Piper Squad,&#8221; a group of teen YouTube creators who made vlog-style videos along with Piper to gain subscribers, per <a href="https://www.insider.com/youtuber-piper-rockelle-tiffany-smith-child-exploitation-abuse-case-2022-7">Business Insider</a>. 
The group is suing Smith and her boyfriend, Hunter Hill, claiming emotional and sexual abuse plus financial exploitation. The lawsuit alleges that Smith made sexually explicit comments to the teens and had other instances of inappropriate contact with them.
The civil suit alleges that on one occasion, Smith asked one of the teens how long his penis was. She also allegedly told another YouTube creator that she was flat-chested, as The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2023/04/17/mom-of-youtube-star-piper-rockelle-accused-of-abusing-young-content-creators/">reported</a>.
One creator claimed that she accompanied Smith to the post office to mail Piper&#8217;s old underwear to an unknown person, because she allegedly said, “Old men like to smell this stuff.” 
Smith was also accused of touching the underage content creators&#8217; legs, thighs, and buttocks inappropriately and encouraging the teens to be sexually aggressive during video shoots to make the staged romantic connections look more real, per the lawsuit.
The plaintiffs also say they weren’t compensated for participating in the video shoots but acknowledge that they were never promised any payment. 
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Smith and Hill &#8220;generally and specifically&#8221; denied every allegation listed in the plaintiffs&#8217; complaint last May, the publication noted.
Smith countersued for $30 million in July, claiming the plaintiffs’ mothers worked together to extort money by lying about the alleged sexual abuse. Smith dropped the countersuit shortly after, according to an NBC News <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/celebrity/piper-rockelle-mom-trial-court-abuse-allegations-tiffany-smith-rcna77228">report</a>. 
One of the mothers of a creator said the “Squad” teens staged romances with each other, which led to issues such as online bullying and harassment.
“I just want peace back with my kids,” Ashley Anne-Rock Smith said. Smith’s two daughters are plaintiffs in the suit and Rockelle’s cousins.
“I want all predators who hurt young kids to be brought to justice,” Smith said. “I also hope we move the needle on these platforms that are allowing this.”

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Mom Of Teen YouTube Star Sued For Abuse By Daughter’s Friends Heads To Court In $22M Civil Case

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The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a> account which belongs to former President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> was restored more than two years after its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspension</a>.
Trump has been restricted from posting videos since the protests at the Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, after which YouTube and other social media firms asserted that he had incited violence. The account is “no longer restricted and the ability to upload new content is restored,” YouTube Vice President of Public Policy Leslie Miller said in a <a href="https://www.axios.com/2023/03/17/trump-youtube-suspension-restored" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> provided to Axios.
&#8220;We carefully evaluated the continued risk of real-world violence, balancing that with the importance of preserving the opportunity for voters to hear equally from major national candidates in the run up to an election,&#8221; Miller commented. &#8220;This channel will continue to be subject to our policies, just like any other channel on YouTube.&#8221;
YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, will not restore videos on the Trump account removed from the platform after January 6 for purportedly inciting violence. Trump, who is a candidate for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, will now be permitted to buy YouTube advertisements.
A number of social media firms have likewise lifted previous suspensions on Trump. Meta, which controls Facebook and Instagram, ended Trump’s suspension two months ago and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meta-to-end-trumps-suspension-across-platforms-in-near-future" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a> that the penalty imposed after January 6 was “an extraordinary decision taken in extraordinary circumstances.” The company nevertheless vowed to enforce “certain guardrails” on Trump in the future.
Content moderators defended their controversial move, insisting they did not want to interfere in debate surrounding elections and that the decision had been approved by an oversight board. Meta said that Trump faces “heightened penalties for repeat offenses” for past behavior on the platforms, which will also “apply to other public figures whose accounts are reinstated from suspensions related to civil unrest under our updated protocol.”
Twitter CEO Elon Musk <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-elon-musk-to-reinstate-trump-on-twitter-trump-has-repeatedly-stated-he-wont-come-back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reinstated</a> Trump on the platform at the end of last year following an informal survey the billionaire entrepreneur conducted with his followers. Trump, who launched a social media company called Truth Social after he left office, had stated that he will not return to Twitter even if Musk were to reinstate his account. Trump is also contractually required to post all content to Truth Social and wait six hours before sharing the content on other platforms.
“I hope Elon buys Twitter because he’ll make improvements to it and he is a good man, but I am going to be staying on Truth,” Trump previously commented. “The bottom line is, no, I am not going back to Twitter.”
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Trump has more than 2.6 million subscribers on YouTube, while his <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump">account</a> on Twitter has some 87.4 million followers.
Musk previously <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> advertisers that he acquired Twitter to foster a “common digital town square, where a wide range of beliefs can be debated in a healthy manner, without resorting to violence.” He has expressed a desire to refrain from promoting what he deems to be radical content on the site and vowed that the social media platform would not become a “free-for-all hellscape” where users could breach the law with impunity or splinter into “echo chambers.”

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Joe Rogan and Russell Brand slammed critics who&#8217;ve labeled them and others &#8220;right-wing&#8221; for being against censorship on platforms like YouTube.
During Spotify&#8217;s &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/7p7u5CZdpYtLcFnsEwzPNB?si=lWGvA5xdRXyLbxiep2IgoQ">podcast</a> on Thursday, the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan">host</a> spoke with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/move-over-freedom-actor-russell-brand-warns-about-amazons-new-convenient-way-to-pay">Brand</a> about YouTube&#8217;s demonetization and censorship rules and why Brand ultimately decided to leave the platform for what critics have called the &#8220;super far-right&#8221; platform Rumble.
In September, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/russell-brand-leaves-youtube-for-rumble-after-censorship-complaint">Brand announced</a> he was leaving the video platform after an episode discussing COVID-19 and Ivermectin was censored.
&#8220;They do things to get people to self-censor and Rumble doesn&#8217;t do that,&#8221; Rogan shared.
&#8220;They&#8217;re running a business. I understand it from their perspective,&#8221; he added. &#8220;They&#8217;re running a business, they have advertisers. I understand it from their perspective. But from a content creation perspective, you just couldn&#8217;t trust them.&#8221;
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Russell Brand was on Joe Rogan&#39;s show today and they discussed how YouTube&#39;s escalating repression is fueling Rumble&#39;s growth. 
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&#8220;This is what Rumble fundamentally offered,&#8221; Brand replied. &#8220;They gave me a good deal and the assurance that we&#8217;re not going to censor you.&#8221;
&#8220;Now obviously coming from where I come from politically and in terms of my background even as a person that&#8217;s been in the public for a while, I know how Rumble is being portrayed,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s being portrayed as a right-wing, far-right place [for] conspiracy theorists —&#8221;
The host joked, &#8220;yeah, you and Glenn Greenwald, super far-right.&#8221;
&#8220;Right, married, gay,&#8221; Brand laughed.
&#8220;Tulsi Gabbard, super right-wing,&#8221; Rogan added. &#8220;It&#8217;s nuts. Anything alternative to the censorship model they&#8217;ll talk of as right-wing.&#8221;
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Earlier in the show, both Brand and the host talked about being labeled &#8220;right-wing&#8221; because they&#8217;ve presented counter narratives from everything regarding the COVID-19 pandemic to the war in Ukraine.
Brand said people have said to him, &#8220;&#8216;oh, you&#8217;re right wing conspiracy theorist. You&#8217;ve joined the alt-right.'&#8221;
Rogan said he&#8217;s been described as&#8221;far-right&#8221; as he recalled how he was treated by corporate media when he was attacked by CNN for taking &#8220;horse dewormer&#8221; after he tested positive for the coronavirus in 2021.
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/youre-bullsing-people-joe-rogan-blows-up-on-media-over-riot-covid-coverage">&#8216;You&#8217;re Bulls****ing People&#8217;: Joe Rogan Blows Up On Media Over Riot, COVID Coverage</a>

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Joe Rogan, Russell Brand Slam Critics Who’ve Labeled Them And Others ‘Right-Wing’ For Being Against ‘Censorship’

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Podcaster and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube">YouTube</a> personality <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-pool">Tim Pool</a> is shedding light on the most buzzworthy cultural topics with his latest project, “The Culture War.”
This new show is streaming episodes on Fridays at 1:00 pm EST. Per the press release, Pool’s latest <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/tim-pool">podcast</a> will become “your home for unflinchingly honest discussions about the biggest cultural issues of our time, with the most interesting guests, free of political agendas.” 
“There is a whole world happening out there beyond the confines of the news cycle and we intend to get into all of it,” Pool, CEO of Timcast Media Group, said of the endeavor.
Fans are already familiar with Pool’s massively successful shows “The Tim Pool Daily Show” and “Timcast In Real Life.” While these programs dabble in cultural topics alongside politics and headline news, the newest project offers a deeper dive into the cultural divide in modern America and how it affects every aspect of everyday life. 
The <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9oqgpKL4qw">debut episode</a> of “The Culture War” aired on Friday, February 24, with an expose on radical gender ideology. It featured detransitioner Oli London, who rose to fame while identifying as “Trans Korean” and transgender, then opted to re-evaluate.
London got real with Pool about why he stepped away from plastic surgery and found peace with his true self, plus how becoming one of a growing number of detransitioners made him a target for hateful reactions, including threats, from former allies and supporters.
Pool’s political views are often described as libertarian. Recently, he’s been taking on the issue of transgenderism more frequently, including when he defended Daily Wire host Matt Walsh for his scathing commentary on trans activist Dylan Mulvaney.
“All these people are talking to Matt Walsh, saying, ‘You shouldn’t be mean to people and blah, blah,’ and Matt’s like, ‘No, there’s no limits,’” Pool said on an episode of “Timcast IRL.”
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“Like, we can’t let these people do these bad things. You need to tell people who are doing bad things, what you’re doing is bad. And you can do it in a bunch of different ways,” he continued. “You know, calling someone ‘creepy’ and ‘degenerate’ is not the worst possible thing in the world for a person, and it may make them rethink targeting children and causing harm to other people.”

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Tim Pool Dives Into Hot Button Issues With His New Podcast, ‘The Culture War’

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The 2015 murder of a young woman in Paris by ISIS terrorists is at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2023/02/not-like-the-nine-greatest-experts-on-the-internet-justices-seem-leery-of-broad-ruling-on-section-230/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">case</a> that challenges the liability protection social media companies enjoy for hosting content published by others.
The case, Gonzalez v. Google, revolves around slain college-exchange student Nohemi Gonzalez, 23, and whether Google, which owns YouTube, helped ISIS recruit by recommending certain content through YouTube’s algorithms. American law forbids aiding and abetting terrorists, but Google claims Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act protects it from legal responsibility for videos pushed by its recommendation algorithms.
Supreme Court justices on Tuesday struggled to grasp the issues raised in the case.
“We’re a court. We really don’t know about these things,&#8221; Justice Elena Kagan said. &#8220;You know, these are not like the nine greatest experts on the internet.&#8221;
Justice Brett Kavanaugh <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/21/google-supreme-court-gonzales-isis/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suggested</a>, “Isn’t it better &#8230; to put the burden on Congress to change that, and they can consider the implications and make these predictive judgments?”
Justice Neil Gorsuch questioned Google&#8217;s claim that algorithms are neutral, and suggested the case should be sent back to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which had ruled for Google.
Law professor Eric Schnapper, who represents the Gonzalez family, argued that Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act makes a distinction between claims holding internet companies liable for content created by others and claims that hold internet companies responsible for their own actions.
“Helping users find the proverbial needle in the haystack is an existential necessity on the internet,” countered Lisa S. Blatt, representing Google. “Search engines thus tailor what users see based on what’s known about users. So does Amazon, Tripadvisor, Wikipedia, Yelp!, Zillow, and countless video, music, news, job-finding, social media, and dating websites.”
Blatt responded to Justice Amy Coney Barrett, who asked if platforms such as YouTube would be protected if their sorting mechanism was not neutral but “really defamatory or pro-ISIS.” Blatt argued that Section 230 would protect the platforms.
Schnapper said that items Blatt claimed were “inherent” in publishing, like topic headings and “trending now” tags, were in fact not inherent.
YouTube describes itself as a public forum, which, according to Section 230, is not subject to liability for content placed on its site. Section 230 also requires public forums to promote “a true diversity of political discourse.”
In mid-October 2020, FCC Chairman Ajit Pai released a <a href="https://www.fcc.gov/document/chairman-pai-statement-section-230" target="_blank" rel="noopener">statement</a> showing his intention to clarify what Section 230 should mean.
“The U.S. Department of Commerce has petitioned the Commission to ‘clarify ambiguities in section 230.’ &#8230; As elected officials consider whether to change the law, the question remains: What does Section 230 currently mean?&#8221; Pat wrote. &#8220;Many advance an overly broad interpretation that in some cases shields social media companies from consumer protection laws in a way that has no basis in the text of Section 230. &#8230; Social media companies have a First Amendment right to free speech. But they do not have a First Amendment right to a special immunity denied to other media outlets, such as newspapers and broadcasters.”

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