<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/facebook">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/instagram">Instagram</a> threatened to permanently ban <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/project-veritas">Project Veritas</a> from the platforms after a journalist from the nonprofit confronted a <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/youtube">YouTube</a> executive on why one of their <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/pfizer">Pfizer</a> sting videos had been removed.
Jordon Trishton Walker, an official who leads research and development for mRNA projects, recently <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-pfizer-official-physically-assaults-james-okeefe-destroys-ipad-showing-undercover-recordings">said</a> to an undercover Project Veritas journalist that the company uses “directed evolution” to mutate coronaviruses and create more potent variants and vaccines. More <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-exec-appears-to-admit-there-are-concerning-impacts-on-female-reproductive-health-from-vaccine-in-round-two-of-project-veritas-sting">footage</a> captured by the journalist and released on Thursday evening shows the embattled official revealing that Pfizer is not entirely sure why the vaccines are impacting women’s menstrual cycles, postulating that the effects could be evidence of hormonal disruptions.
“I hope we don’t discover something really bad down the line. I hope we don’t find out that somehow this mRNA lingers in the body,” he continued, “because it has to be affecting something hormonal to impact menstrual cycles.”
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BREAKING: <a href="https://twitter.com/pfizer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pfizer</a> Director Concerned Over Women&#8217;s Reproductive Heath After COVID-19 Vaccinations
&#8220;There is something irregular about their menstrual cycles&#8230;concerning&#8230;The vaccine shouldn&#8217;t be interfering with that&#8230;It has to be affecting something hormonal&#8230;&#8221;<a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pfertility?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Pfertility</a> <a href="https://t.co/XAuMPJNShD">pic.twitter.com/XAuMPJNShD</a>
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1621274788734943233?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 2, 2023</a></blockquote>
Project Veritas published more footage on Friday afternoon showing one of their reporters appearing to confront YouTube Vice President of Global Trust and Safety Matt Halprin on why they banned the first video. The executive walked away from the reporter without responding, apart from telling the reporter to not touch him and threatening to call the police.
Facebook and Instagram, both of which are owned by Meta, removed the footage of Halprin and <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1621604766190034949">warned</a> that the content violates “Community Standards.”
“We have these standards because we want everyone to feel safe, respected and welcome,” the warning said. “If your content goes against our Community Standards again, your account may be restricted or disabled. You can disagree with the decision if you think we got it wrong.”
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BREAKING: Project Veritas Senior Reporter <a href="https://twitter.com/Chris_Hartsock?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Chris_Hartsock</a> Confronts <a href="https://twitter.com/YouTube?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@YouTube</a> Vice President of Global Trust &amp; Safety Over Tech Giant’s Actions to Remove Our <a href="https://twitter.com/pfizer?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Pfizer</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/DirectedEvolution?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#DirectedEvolution</a> Investigation From The Platform <a href="https://t.co/ktvXRJawN2">pic.twitter.com/ktvXRJawN2</a>
— Project Veritas (@Project_Veritas) <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1621564110906220544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 3, 2023</a></blockquote>
Project Veritas added on Friday afternoon that they had been &#8220;wrongfully locked out&#8221; of Twitter for nearly two hours. The social media company <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1621637789753266177?s=20&amp;t=PHaMAgKOs5Qfn8bIvKBLTw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">claimed</a> that the Halprin video constituted &#8220;abuse and harassment.&#8221;
Project Veritas has frequently been subjected to censorship from technology companies. Officials at Twitter had formerly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/twitter-reinstates-undercover-journalism-enterprise-project-veritas">restricted</a> the organization for allegedly posting a video showing Facebook Vice President Guy Rosen admitting the social media platform built a system designed to freeze commenting where hate speech or violence is detected without confirming if the alleged speech was hateful or violent. The account on Twitter was restored after Elon Musk purchased the company last year.
With respect to the abnormal menstrual cycles, Walker said in the video released on Thursday that the vaccine should not be interfering with the hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadal axis, but expressed concern “there is something happening, but we don’t always figure it out.”
“There is something irregular about their menstrual cycles. So, people will have to investigate that down the line, because that is a little concerning,” he said. “The vaccine shouldn’t be interfering with that.”
Researchers have previously found that COVID vaccines impacted menstruation; one international <a href="https://news.ohsu.edu/2022/09/27/global-study-finds-covid-19-vaccination-can-affect-menstrual-cycle" target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> from the Oregon Health and Science University concluded that “some people may experience a slight, temporary change in the length of their monthly menstrual cycle” after receiving the vaccine. Another <a href="https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abm7201#:~:text=In%20this%20sample%2C%2042%25%20of,no%20change%20after%20being%20vaccinated." target="_blank" rel="noopener">study</a> found that 42% of women with regular menstrual cycles reported heavier bleeding than usual after inoculation.
Although Pfizer appears to have not yet responded to the second round of the Project Veritas sting, the company <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pfizer-denies-conducting-covid-gain-of-function-research-in-delayed-response-to-veritas-video" target="_blank" rel="noopener">denied</a> conducting gain-of-function research after the initial footage was released. “Working with collaborators, we have conducted research where the original SARS-CoV-2 virus has been used to express the spike protein from new variants of concern,” a statement read. “This work is undertaken once a new variant of concern has been identified by public health authorities. This research provides a way for us to rapidly assess the ability of an existing vaccine to induce antibodies that neutralize a newly identified variant of concern.”
Project Veritas founder James O’Keefe <a href="https://twitter.com/Project_Veritas/status/1618743338852835329">confronted</a> Walker in a subsequent video, leading the executive to call himself a “liar” who apparently fabricated the stories to impress the undercover journalist with whom he thought he was on a date. Pfizer did not respond to questions from The Daily Wire about Walker’s employment status.
Walker insisted he is “not even a scientist by background,” adding that he “came from a consulting firm that does business.” Asked whether he works for Pfizer, Walker said, “No, I was a contractor!” When pressed for a second time, Walker replied, “No! What are you talking about here?”
Despite his denials, Walker’s apparent LinkedIn profile, which appears to have been deleted, and images of internal Pfizer documents <a href="https://twitter.com/JamesOKeefeIII/status/1618435991211233282">shared</a> by O’Keefe suggest he did indeed work for the pharmaceutical firm. Walker is listed as a Pfizer “director of research and development, strategic operations, and mRNA scientific planning.”

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Singer Sam Smith has released a new music video. First, let me say this about this incredible performer: I loved his music. 
But with his latest release “I&#8217;m Not Here to Make Friends,” I can no longer love it.
Even though Sam is tremendously talented, I am now going to have to dump his incredible music from my library.
Why?
It has nothing to do with his singing gifts — it&#8217;s how he&#8217;s choosing to use his unique abilities that is beyond the pale. 
My decision to ditch him is about who Sam is as a person and what he is introducing to culture now.
He&#8217;s no longer releasing beautiful music. His new song is not about him playing the piano and remembering old lovers.
His new music video is yet another example of what happens to an artist who has spent too much time in Hollywood — his &#8216;art&#8217; essentially becomes pornography.
His new music video, for the song, “I’m Not Here To Make Friends,” is almost too grotesque to even discuss. I go into more detail about it on my show today which can be watched <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/show/candace" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>. 
The best way to describe it is like &#8220;Mrs. Doubtfire&#8221; meets &#8220;Moulin Rouge&#8221; — except it&#8217;s just men. It&#8217;s absolute filth. The entire thing is sexual, provocative, and inappropriate — replete with leather lingerie, suggestive images, nudity, and more. It&#8217;s graphic throughout.
What’s incredible is that this sort of thing is allowed on YouTube. You cannot question Big Pharma authority, and you can’t discuss your reaction to the vaccine, but this garbage is allowed for the world to see — including your children.
The video isn’t posted behind behind any sort of age restriction or verification — even though it is essentially gay smut.
Those who do speak out against this vulgarity being pushed on our kids are accused of being homophobic and hateful. It’s a bogus smear. 
It’s no secret I am against this agenda being pushed onto our children. Of course, my critics never focus on that. They instead choose to make the issue about the immutable characteristics of those I am criticizing.
So for example, when Cardi B makes the song “WAP” and I ridicule it and condemn it, people say “oh, it&#8217;s because Cardi B is black” — never mind my own skin color.
So, now that I&#8217;m commenting on Sam Smith and he&#8217;s white, I am being told I&#8217;m only speaking out because he&#8217;s gay and &#8216;gender-bending.&#8217;
No, I am speaking out because they are both disgusting.
This isn’t art. These are the products of two imbeciles corrupting our culture and future. It should be thrown out — not put on the internet for millions to see.
People should walk away from this. It shouldn&#8217;t be allowed on stage, let alone on your home computer where minors can see it.
When you put this into the arena — think about what it&#8217;s doing in people&#8217;s minds over time. In effect, it&#8217;s softening them to the idea of pornography. This music video belongs on Pornhub, and Pornhub belongs in the trash.
Yet instead of finding this crap in the gutter, you are seeing this sort of crudeness in the mainstream media. You&#8217;re getting this on YouTube. People are celebrating this.
The truly sad part is Sam is already talented. He doesn’t need to stoop to this level.
Why can’t he make a video of himself dancing and having a good time — without it being explicitly sexual? Does it really have to be so raunchy? No, of course not. So then why is he doing this?
Well, perhaps because he knows this is what sells now. The more disgusting you are and the more immoral you are, then the more attention Hollywood will give you.
That’s because Hollywood is perverse and satanic. And that&#8217;s all I&#8217;m going to say about that.

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The Twitter Files revealed that one of the most important content distribution platforms on the internet had been corrupted by severe <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-twitter-files-release-shows-how-adam-schiff-staffers-harassed-the-company-with-absurd-ban-requests">ideological bias</a>. Leaked documents reveal Twitter staff suspending accounts and tinkering with distribution algorithms for purely political reasons. The Right always suspected Twitter wasn’t a fair forum; the Twitter Files proved it.
The Right has long held similar suspicions about YouTube, which has an estimated monthly user base of <a href="https://www.omnicoreagency.com/youtube-statistics/">2.6 billion</a> compared Twitter’s estimated <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/303681/twitter-users-worldwide/">368 million</a> monthly users. Critics tend to focus on obvious acts of censorship: Banning videos or shutting down channels for no apparent reason other than they offend liberal sensibilities. Alternative video hosting sites like <a href="https://rumble.com/">Rumble</a> have emerged to provide Right-wing and heterodox voices a censorship-free platform, but the audiences for those sites remain a microscopic fraction of YouTube’s.
My company, <a href="https://www.goodkidproductions.com/">Good Kid Productions</a>, has just been victimized by what appears to be a more subtle means of YouTube censorship, a way for the site to shut down dissident voices under the guise of “community safety.”
Late last year, our channel released <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAMjU14z4w">documentary</a> investigating two famous viral incidents centered on Kenosha, Wisconsin: The summer of 2020 shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by a white police officer, and, in the midst of the subsequent violent BLM riots, the killing of two people by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/thats-when-i-knew-they-didnt-have-a-case-rittenhouse-details-critical-moments-of-trial">Kyle Rittenhouse</a>, a teenager who came to Kenosha with an AR-15-style rifle to help protect private businesses.
For the first four weeks after its release, the video was untouched by YouTube management, allowing it to steadily rack up views. Then, suddenly, in late December, without warning, YouTube designated the video as “<a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802167?hl=en">age-restricted</a>.” 
This is supposed to be a yellow-card punishment. Videos get slapped with this designation for violating “community guidelines,” vaguely defined rules supposedly intended to prevent violent, sexual, dangerous, or otherwise inappropriate content from polluting the platform. The “age-restricted” designation doesn’t fully nuke the video: It gets to stay up, but under restrictions that, in theory, simply prevent it from reaching an underage audience.
In practice, age restriction is a death knell: The video can’t be embedded on external websites; viewers have to sign in before they can watch it; and it receives scant – if any – boost from YouTube’s recommendation algorithm, which is a crucial source of views.
A documentary deconstructing the media’s coverage of a police shooting and the resulting mass riots is, admittedly, going to contain some mature themes. But all the “mature” visuals come from publicly available news pieces that are themselves available unrestricted on YouTube. The violence isn’t graphic. It’s the sort that might make PBS News. There’s no blood, guts, or sex, and there’s just a single use of profanity (by a BLM activist). And YouTube’s community guidelines explicitly carve out exceptions for news pieces, which is exactly what our documentary is.
The original age restriction notification did not specify what part or parts of the video were problematic, so we were left to guess how to fix it. YouTube has native editing tools that allow channel managers to modify videos after they’ve been published. We used them to blur out some gun violence and then formally submitted an appeal, which is supposed to be overseen by a flesh-and-blood human being.
On January 1, we received a reply from “Emman” at YouTube support informing us that “a human reviewer re-evaluated your content and determined that it does violate our Community Guidelines. We know this is probably disappointing news, but it&#8217;s our job to make sure that YouTube is a safe place for all.” 
That’s it for the explanation. Emman didn’t provide specifics. He (she? it?) didn’t tell us what triggered the original designation or what doomed our appeal. Presumably, YouTube gets thousands of appeal requests every day. We’re not expecting a detailed report; we just want to know what specifically the human reviewer saw that made them rule to retain the restriction.
We responded by asking what specific parts of the video would need to be modified to drop the restriction. On January 12, Emman replied: “I understand that you would like to blur out your video, and have them [sic] be reviewed again. Unfortunately, if the video is already reviewed by our internal team the decision is final regardless if the video is edited or not.”
And that’s it. There is no next step. Views on the video have dropped to a trickle. It’s been shared by several large social media accounts, each with millions of followers, but the age restriction is a traffic choke point, substantially squeezing down the audience generated by those shares.
There’s no definitive proof this restriction is political, but it’s hard not to be suspicious. Our documentary deconstructs the lazy, leftist lies about race and police that saturate Silicon Valley. What would a Twitter Files-like revelation of the internal communications of YouTube reveal? How many of these restriction decisions are arbitrary? And how many are driven by an agenda?
Rob Montz, co-founder and CEO of Good Kid Productions. His latest online documentary is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzAMjU14z4w">The Broken Boys of Kenosha.</a>
The views expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.

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Fans are furious with <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube">YouTuber</a> Logan Paul after it was discovered that his former <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/animals">pet pig</a>, Pearl, was reportedly found sick, “mangled,” and abandoned in a field.
The situation came to light after a California-based animal sanctuary, The Gentle Barn, shared a <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@thegentlebarn/video/7186685865043905838?is_copy_url=1&amp;is_from_webapp=v1&amp;refer=embed">video</a> on TikTok detailing the animal’s rescue. 
“Pearl was found alone in a field next to another pig who had passed away,” the video caption says. “She came to us with tattered ears and a potentially life-threatening infection in her uterus that has since been healed. She&#8217;s clearly been through so much trauma that we can&#8217;t begin to imagine, but she&#8217;s now safe with us at The Gentle Barn.”
The organization also notes that Pearl had been purchased by an “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/celebrities">influencer</a>” and was “irresponsibly rehomed” at some point. 
“People often buy ‘mini pigs’ or ‘teacup pigs’ for clout online, believing they will stay small. When they inevitably grow very large and have many unexpected needs, they&#8217;re sadly discarded,” the video description says
The video text also says Pearl was owned by a “YouTuber” and she’s “lucky to be alive.” 
“All we know for sure is she ended up abandoned and scared with mangled ears and a broken heart,” the video says.
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Logan Paul’s pig was allegedly found abandoned in a field next to another dead pig. It was rescued by a company known as The Gentle Barn… <a href="https://t.co/W0kwAHYmWH">pic.twitter.com/W0kwAHYmWH</a>
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The comments are filled with outrage for Paul and his alleged role in Pearl’s abandonment. “You have some explaining to do,” one fan wrote, tagging the YouTuber. 
“We see what you did [Logan Paul],” another commenter wrote. 
Paul allegedly responded to the video by sending an email to The Gentle Barn thanking them for rescuing Pearl. 
“Pearl lived very happily at my home in Encino for about two years,” he wrote in the email shared with <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/01/09/logan-paul-thanks-gentle-barn-rescue-pig-pearl/">TMZ</a>. “When I moved to Puerto Rico in April of 2020, she was unable to come with me, so she was rehomed at a horse ranch in Santa Clarita.”
He expressed “gratitude” toward the sanctuary for rescuing the pig and said it was “shocking and heartbreaking” to witness the state she was in. Paul also offered to “contribute to her care” again now that she’s living at The Gentle Barn.

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Fans Trash Logan Paul When His Former Pet Pig Was Found Sick, ‘Abandoned And Scared’ In A Field

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<a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Social media</a> platforms revealed on Monday that they would remove <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/social-media-censorship" target="_blank" rel="noopener">content</a> supporting riots in <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/brazil" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brazil</a> that saw demonstrators storm multiple federal buildings.
Thousands of supporters who backed former President <a href="http://dailywire.com/topic/jair-bolsonaro" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Jair Bolsonaro</a> in recent elections <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-thousands-of-bolsonaro-supporters-storm-brazils-congress-supreme-court-presidential-office" target="_blank" rel="noopener">entered</a> facilities hosting the South American nation’s legislative and executive branches. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who assumed office last week, has vowed to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/brazilian-government-plans-to-punish-pro-bolsonaro-protesters-who-stormed-federal-buildings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">punish</a> individuals who destroyed federal property. Technology companies are now taking down material that supports the riots, according to a <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/facebook-owner-meta-removing-content-backing-brazil-assault-2023-01-09/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">report</a> from Reuters.
&#8220;In advance of the election, we designated Brazil as a temporary high-risk location and have been removing content calling for people to take up arms or forcibly invade Congress, the Presidential palace and other federal buildings,&#8221; a spokesman for Meta, which runs Facebook, told the outlet. &#8220;We are also designating this as a violating event, which means we will remove content that supports or praises these actions. We are actively following the situation and will continue removing content that violates our policies.&#8221;
YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, likewise told the outlet that the company is “closely tracking” the unrest and “removing content” that violates community guidelines. &#8220;Our systems are prominently surfacing authoritative content on our homepage, at the top of search results, and in recommendations,” a spokesperson said. “We will remain vigilant as the situation continues to unfold.&#8221;
Twitter did not respond to Reuters&#8217; request for comment.
Lula, a self-described socialist, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ex-con-defeats-incumbent-in-brazilian-presidential-election" target="_blank" rel="noopener">defeated</a> Bolsonaro, a populist conservative sometimes called the “Trump of the Tropics,” by a narrow margin during elections held in October. A justice on the Brazilian Supreme Court voided corruption convictions against Lula two years ago, restoring his eligibility for office. Documents leaked after Lula’s trial suggested that the judge in the case, Sergio Moro, improperly collaborated with the prosecution.
Bolsonaro, currently residing in Florida while reportedly facing investigations in his home country, has condemned illegal protests. “Peaceful demonstrations, in the form of the law, are part of democracy,” he <a href="https://twitter.com/jairbolsonaro/status/1612242019564548097?s=20&amp;t=L8P6-CWW_kUnM0YptjMQ0w" target="_blank" rel="noopener">remarked</a>. “However, depredations and invasions of public buildings as occurred today, as well as those practiced by the left in 2013 and 2017, escape the rule.”
Telegram, a private messaging service, is working with the new government to identify and censor content. &#8220;Telegram is a platform that supports the right to free speech and peaceful protest. Calls to violence, however, are explicitly forbidden on our platform,&#8221; a spokesperson remarked. &#8220;Our moderators use a combination of proactive monitoring in public-facing parts of our platform in addition to accepting user reports, in order to remove such content.&#8221;
The protests came almost two years after supporters of former President Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, drawing a comparison between the two events from American commentators. The former commander-in-chief was <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/social-media-platforms-have-no-plans-to-lift-bans-on-trumps-accounts-despite-third-white-house-bid" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suspended</a> from major social media platforms following the incident; his account was recently <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">restored</a> on Twitter after the company was purchased by Elon Musk.
Cooperation between at least one social media platform and the Lula administration occurs after the Twitter Files revealed extensive collaboration between the company and various American federal law enforcement agencies. One set of emails <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/new-twitter-files-show-fbi-paid-twitter-millions-influenced-execs-to-censor-hunter-biden-laptop-story" target="_blank" rel="noopener">provided</a> by Musk to independent journalists showed that there was “an organized effort by representatives of the intelligence community” aimed at “senior executives at news and social media companies” to discredit “leaked information about Hunter Biden before and after it was published.”

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/joe-rogan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Joe Rogan</a>, host of &#8220;The Joe Rogan Experience&#8221; on Spotify, slammed Brian Johnson, who goes by “Liver King,” in a podcast this week for lying about his use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) while trying to claim that he was able to get a ripped physique naturally.
Johnson <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/fitness-guru-liver-king-comes-clean-about-steroid-use-i-lied-and-i-misled-a-lot-of-people" target="_blank" rel="noopener">admitted</a> earlier this week that he lied about taking steroids, saying that he was &#8220;embarrassed and ashamed&#8230; I lied and I misled a lot of people.&#8221;
&#8220;I wasn&#8217;t surprised at all. It completely make sense,&#8221; Rogan said on one of his podcast episodes this week. &#8220;There&#8217;s no way you can look like that in your 40s, that jacked, he&#8217;s preposterously jacked. Now that we know that he&#8217;s full of s***. We&#8217;re talking about the Liver King, by the way, ladies and gentlemen, a lot of people, like, what are they saying? There&#8217;s a guy, if you don&#8217;t know who the Liver King is, the guy who calls himself the &#8216;Liver King,&#8217; and he&#8217;s this guy who walks around everywhere with no shirt on. I&#8217;ve seen him in Vegas with no shirt on, big bushy beard, super jacked. And he was telling people that the way he gets that way is by sunning his balls. He literally lays down with his a***hole staring at the sun and eats raw liver and just lifts like a maniac. And that&#8217;s how he&#8217;s so jacked. But it&#8217;s preposterous.&#8221;
Rogan then played the Liver King&#8217;s apology video and repeatedly mocked and laughed at his attempts to explain why he lied about taking steroids.
&#8220;You know what the problem is?&#8221; Rogan said after watching the apology video. &#8220;Sometimes people don&#8217;t hang out with people that are smarter than them. And you think you&#8217;re the smartest person or maybe because he&#8217;s running this company, people have to listen to him. So he&#8217;s got this distorted perception of his ability to communicate, and his ability to convince people, like, that was so theatrical and so corny.&#8221;
&#8220;This is dumb, man. This is a f***ing, you ran a con game and you got busted,&#8221; Rogan continued. &#8220;And it&#8217;s unfortunate that you feel terrible. I&#8217;m sorry, you feel bad because that&#8217;s just what happens when you get caught lying. But you didn&#8217;t have to lie.&#8221;
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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>
Related: <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">Fitness Celebrity ‘Liver King’ Claimed To Be All Natural. Alleged Leaked Email Says Otherwise.</a>

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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'

Food

Every year, Hollywood gets bashed over the lame movies the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (yes, sciences) chooses as supposedly the best of the year.
So maybe this new film, &#8220;Cocaine Bear,&#8221; will pick up a dozen nominations and walk away the big winner when it is eligible for the Oscars.
Here&#8217;s the premise: A 175-pound black bear eats a duffle bag full of cocaine and goes on a ferocious rampage, ravaging through a forest as he searches for more coke.
Seriously. See for yourself.
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The trailer opens with two medics walking into a cabin before one hears growling coming from the other side of a door. &#8220;We should go,&#8221; he says before the bear breaks down the door and mauls him.
&#8220;Millions of dollars worth of cocaine fell from the sky this morning in Knoxville, Tennessee,&#8221; a narrator then says in the trailer to set up the premise.
Then we see a big cuddly bear lying on its back and playing with a taped-up brick of cocaine before eating it. &#8220;Let&#8217;s see what kind of effect that has on him,&#8221; says one guy, apparently unaware of the effect cocaine has.
Of course, Cocaine Bear kills a LOT of people, judging from all the bloody body limbs strewn throughout the trailer. He climbs trees to kill hikers, tearing them apart. He appears to smother another to death. But it&#8217;s hilarious &#8216;cuz it&#8217;s a bear high on cocaine, right?
The movie, set for release on February 24, features a delightful scene in which a little kid, maybe 10 or 12, tells authorities that a bear ate the cocaine: &#8220;It was f***ed!&#8221;
&#8220;Hey, that&#8217;s inappropriate,&#8221; a female forest ranger tells the boy just before being ripped limb from limb.
Now, that&#8217;s Oscars stuff!
At another part in the trailer, the bear sings a song to the tune of Eric Clapton&#8217;s &#8220;Cocaine&#8221;: &#8220;Apex predator/high on cocaine.&#8221;
The film, directed by Elizabeth Banks, who played Avery Jessup in &#8220;30 Rock&#8221; and starred in the &#8220;Pitch Perfect&#8221; movies, is reportedly based on a true story. &#8220;Based&#8221; is an iffy word because nothing like that happened.
The New York Times <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1985/12/23/us/cocaine-and-a-dead-bear.html">reported</a> on December 23, 1985, that a 175-pound black bear &#8220;apparently&#8221; died of an overdose of cocaine after discovering the drug, citing the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. The cocaine was reportedly pitched out of a plane piloted by Andrew Thornton, a convicted drug smuggler who died on September 11 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The bureau said the bear was found in northern Georgia surrounded by 40 open plastic containers that contained traces of cocaine.
A medical examiner later found the bear died from cerebral hemorrhaging, respiratory failure, hyperthermia, renal failure, heart failure, and a stroke, the Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11487553/Cocaine-Bear-trailer-tells-true-story-predator-ate-70-POUNDS-drug-dropped-smugglers.html">reports</a>.
Ah, but forget all that inconvenient stuff &#8212; this is art. The film is also one of the last actor Ray Liotta made before he died in May at age 67.
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuWEEKeJLMI&amp;t=1s">YouTubers</a> love it already. &#8220;A movie about a bear high off cocaine that&#8217;s also Ray Liotta&#8217;s last ever film appearance. This is cinema,&#8221; one wrote in the comments under the trailer.
&#8220;This is going to be a cinematic masterpiece the likes of which have never been seen before,&#8221; wrote another. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t been inspired to see a movie in a theatre in like 5 years. I am now,&#8221; wrote another.
And finally, one wrote, &#8220;The bear deserves an Oscar!&#8221;
Maybe they&#8217;re right. Just try to name a &#8220;Best Picture&#8221; from the last few years. (For the record, something called &#8220;CODA,&#8221; a movie about a deaf family featuring all deaf actors, won last year, and &#8220;Nomadland&#8221; won the year before).
And &#8220;Cocaine Bear&#8221; certainly fits the times, doesn&#8217;t it?
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.

Grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) roaring, close up

New Movie About A Murderous Bear Jacked Up On Cocaine Set To Sweep The Academy Awards

New Movie About Bear Jacked Up On Cocaine Set To Sweep The Oscars

Cocaine

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Movies

Two <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/big-tech" target="_blank" rel="noopener">tech giants</a> on Tuesday announced a $13 million grant to fund <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/fact-checking" target="_blank" rel="noopener">global fact-checking</a> projects. 
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/google" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Google</a> and YouTube <a href="https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2022/google-and-youtube-partner-with-poynters-international-fact-checking-network-on-13-2-million-grant-for-the-global-fact-checking-community/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> they would provide financial support to the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN), an arm of the Poynter Institute, to support “fact-checking initiatives” through 2025. 
“The world needs fact-checking more than ever before. This partnership with Google and YouTube infuses financial support to global fact-checkers and is a step in the right direction,” said Baybars Örsek, the IFCN’s executive director. “And while there’s much work to be done, this partnership has sparked meaningful collaboration and an important step.”
About $12 million of the grant will go to the group’s Global Fact Check Fund, which will disburse money to fact-checking groups from around the world that adhere to its Code of Principles. These include groups in the U.S., Brazil, Nepal, Ukraine, Norway, Spain, Taiwan, South Africa, and India.
Örsek added that IFCN was “grateful to Google and YouTube for their commitment to bolster fact-checkers in an ever-increasing environment of mis- and disinformation.”
According to the Poynter Institute, some funds will go toward a foundation to establish a “neutral and independent selection committee” and other expansions of the fact-checking program. 
The IFCN was established in 2015, and its advisory board <a href="https://ifcncodeofprinciples.poynter.org/board" target="_blank" rel="noopener">includes</a> individuals from various organizations, including PolitiFact and The Washington Post. 
Olivia Ma, who manages Google’s Global News Program and Ecosystem, said that the company believed it had a role in combating “misinformation” and guiding people toward making “informed decisions.” 
“Combating misinformation is an ongoing global challenge for society. We take seriously our role in helping to fight misinformation by continually investing in products, programs and partnerships that help people access high-quality information,” Ma said. 
Some have raised concerns about the growing emphasis on fact-checking in recent years, with critics questioning whether the motivation is to suppress conservative or differing viewpoints. For example, the theory that the novel coronavirus may have leaked from a lab in Wuhan, China, was initially widely maligned by certain fact-checkers as the origin of the respiratory virus. However, Facebook later reversed course, saying that the theory was now up for debate and had not been thoroughly discredited. At around the same time, PolitiFact <a href="https://www.politifact.com/li-meng-yan-fact-check/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">retracted</a> a fact-check it had run on the claim saying that the theory was now more “disputed.” 
This year, Brian Riedl, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a former PolitiFact source, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/meet-the-former-politifact-fact-checker-who-quit-over-left-wing-bias-wanted-me-to-help-them-nail-republicans" target="_blank" rel="noopener">told</a> The Daily Wire that the fact-checking group wanted him to &#8220;help them nail Republicans.” Riedl also claimed PolitiFact would start with a &#8220;rating&#8221; of a claim and then work backward to justify that rating.

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‘The World Needs Fact-Checking’: Tech Giants Giving $13 Million To Fund Global Fact-Checking Initiatives

Tech Giants Giving $13 Million Toward Global Fact-Checking Initiatives

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Facebook officials <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-social-media-donald-trump-government-and-politics-67e9831bc2a70f5e5ae6f8aa46e25ae1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> Wednesday that the social media platform has no plans to reinstate the account of former President Donald Trump, despite announcing his bid earlier this week for a second term in the White House in 2024.
Officials suspended Trump initially for only 24-hours after rioters hijacked the former president&#8217;s rally at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Other social media companies, including Youtube, Snapchat, Twitter, and Instagram, owned by Facebook&#8217;s parent company Meta, followed suit and suspended Trump&#8217;s accounts almost immediately.
Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, later placed an indefinite ban on Trump&#8217;s account on January 7, saying that &#8220;the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this period are simply too great.&#8221;
Ivy Choi, a spokeswoman for YouTube, told <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-social-media-donald-trump-government-and-politics-67e9831bc2a70f5e5ae6f8aa46e25ae1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Associated Press</a> the video-sharing platform also has no plans to remove the suspension on Trump&#8217;s account.
Heidi Beirich, the founder of the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism and a member of the Real Facebook Oversight Board, told The Associated Press that social media companies would be justified to extend such restrictions or permanently ban Trump on their platforms.
&#8220;The big problem is treating candidates as if they&#8217;re in a special category and deserve special treatment,&#8221; Beirich said. &#8220;If you have a set of rules, it should apply to everyone. The decision shouldn&#8217;t be a struggle.&#8221;
The oversight board told Facebook to set a time limit on the ban, which is set to expire on January 7, 2023 — two years after the initial suspension.
Since taking over Twitter last month, Elon Musk has yet to announce if he would reinstate Trump&#8217;s account. Musk has previously said that he disagreed with the platform&#8217;s decision to suspend Trump on Twitter.
Trump, however, still manages to get his message out to the public despite big tech&#8217;s push to censor him — whether it&#8217;s through his own social media platform Truth Social or other accounts sharing his statements.
Trump said on Truth Social on October 28 that his social media platform &#8220;looks and works better,&#8221; adding he was &#8220;very happy that Twitter is now in sane hands, and will no longer be run by the Radical Left Lunatics and Maniacs that truly hate our country.&#8221;
&#8220;Twitter must now work hard to rid itself of bots and fake accounts that have hurt it so badly,&#8221; Trump said in the post. &#8220;It will be much smaller, but better. I LOVE TRUTH!&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s fate on social media follows Meta officials announcing they would no longer fact-check the former U.S. president now that he&#8217;s officially running for office again.
According to a memo from Meta&#8217;s &#8220;news integrity partnership&#8221; team obtained by <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/15/politics/facebook-fact-check-donald-trump/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a>, the announcement was sent out hours before Trump made his presidential bid on Tuesday.
The directive would help those &#8220;seeking guidance regarding fact-checking political speech,&#8221; which notes such speech is ineligible for fact-checking.
&#8220;This includes the words a politician says as well as photo, video, or other content that is clearly labeled as created by the politician or their campaign,&#8221; the memo reportedly stated.
Andy Stone, a Meta spokesperson, told CNN the memo was &#8220;a reiteration of our long-standing policy [and] should not be news to anyone.&#8221;
Earlier this month, an investigative report from The Intercept revealed hundreds of internal documents exposing top U.S. government agencies worked closely with social media companies like Facebook and Twitter to censor American freedom of speech — under the guise of fighting disinformation — over several years.
The report showed a &#8220;very cozy&#8221; relationship between government alphabet agencies like the FBI and DHS and tech giants, including Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, Discord, Wikipedia, Microsoft, LinkedIn, and Verizon Media, where they held monthly meetings — as recently as August — and exchanged emails and texts to shape online discourse.
A spokesperson from Twitter denied the allegations in a statement to The Intercept, saying the platform &#8220;[does] not coordinate with other entities when making content moderation decisions,” adding officials &#8220;independently evaluate content in line with the Twitter Rules.&#8221;

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Social Media Platforms Have No Plans To Lift Bans On Trump’s Accounts Despite Third White House Bid

Social Media Platforms Have No Plans To Lift Bans On Trump's Accounts Despite Third White House Bid

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Conservative comedian <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/steven-crowder" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Steven Crowder</a> is again being censored on <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/youtube" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>, catching a &#8220;hard strike&#8221; and a two-week ban from live-streaming or posting any content leading into the consequential midterm elections.
Crowder has routinely been in the crosshairs of YouTube&#8217;s censorship, often without any real transparency from the Big Tech platform. This time was no different.
YouTube told Crowder his video on Elon Musk taking over Twitter had violated their ambiguous &#8220;harassment, threats, and cyberbullying&#8221; policy without any explanation about what exactly caused the violation.
The Daily Wire reached out to YouTube about the suspension and strike, as well as the company&#8217;s transparency with their creators.
&#8220;We removed content from and issued a strike to the StevenCrowder channel for violating our <a href="https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802268?hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/2802268?hl%3Den&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1667174021907000&amp;usg=AOvVaw04-0q_7aF5638wWMTAXZxW">harassment policy</a>, which prohibits content that graphically sexualizes or degrades an individual,&#8221; YouTube policy communications manager Ivy Choi told The Daily Wire. &#8220;As a result, the StevenCrowder channel is suspended from uploading content to YouTube for two weeks.&#8221;
&#8220;This current strike is on a show in which we discussed the importance of Elon Musk’s affect on Big Tech, and specifically the effect on Big Tech’s undue influence going into mid-terms, putting their thumb on the scales of the election,&#8221; Crowder told The Daily Wire via email on Saturday. &#8220;It was also a show in which I promoted that I would be interviewing a surging (Arizona gubernatorial candidate) Kari Lake next week, right in the lead up to the election.&#8221;
This strike is &#8220;different,&#8221; Crowder told The Daily Wire.
&#8220;Whether the intent was to silence a currently surging GOP gubernatorial candidate or not &#8212; along with burying a story that would shine a light on Big Tech’s ability to do so &#8212; the end result is the same,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;Millions of individual people, likely Arizonans who wanted to hear from Kari Lake, directly will not. Millions of people who wanted to know about Elon Musk’s changes to Twitter, and by proxy, their biased practices, will now not.&#8221;
The conservative emphasized his point, calling these midterms the most important of our lifetimes.
Notably, Crowder&#8217;s influence has continued to grow despite repeated &#8220;strikes&#8221; and censorship from Big Tech platforms. On YouTube, the commentator has generated tens of millions of views this month alone, not including views from other platforms where his content is shared.
On the disruption this suspension will cause to Crowder&#8217;s team, he told The Daily Wire, &#8220;We all know how important momentum and recent views are to YouTube when the algorithms determine which content to showcase. Now, with two weeks off the platform, it will wipe that significant market from being achieved, and take a long time to rebuild our momentum in the sphere of their algorithms.&#8221;
On Instagram, Crowder echoed the same message. &#8220;I’ve been here before, but this one is… very different. YouTube has issued yet ANOTHER hard strike to the channel,&#8221; he told his million-plus followers.
&#8220;Look, we are going into an election season,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;One where, if the scales of media were balanced, conservative Republicans would win in a landslide! They can’t have that. Make no mistake, there is a reason that these two strikes directly relate to a future governor who has spoken out against big tech, support of a man (Musk) whose purchase and plan for a big tech platform would fundamentally allow more free, and fair media coverage of elections.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s also no coincidence that this happened as we were nearing 100,000,000 plays/downloads within 30 days,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;It’s not about the number. It’s about YOU choosing truth over their lies.&#8221;
&#8220;So what do we do? Do we roll over and die? Hell no! Starting Monday through November 17th (back on YouTube on November 21st), we will be streaming exclusively on Rumble and of course the extended show on #MugClub as we always do,&#8221; Crowder added. &#8220;Make no mistake, the machine is in full force. They are deathly afraid of you and the tectonic shift which is beginning to take place in our country. Never give up, never surrender, and FIGHT LIKE HELL!!
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Some of the most powerful voices speaking out against the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/transgender">transgender movement</a> come from individuals who have transitioned in the past and now regret it. Recently, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/canada">Canadian</a> YouTube personality Lauren Southern interviewed one such person who transitioned from female to male and then back again.
Southern <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBCF2u-up6w&amp;t=80s">interviewed</a> a family friend named Sarah, who explained her journey of becoming one of many people tricked into believing she was trans.
Sarah began by saying she looked up to her dad as a child and like so many other young girls who used to be classified as “tomboys,” she didn’t like things that society typically deems feminine. She explained how as a child, she loved motorcycles and video games and even “wanted to grow a beard” to look like her father. 
“I never really wanted Barbies or dresses or any of the things people would try to push on me as a girl,” Sarah tells Southern.
She mentioned how puberty was a turning point, especially because she had so many friends who were boys. Sarah felt uncomfortable being looked at differently by members of the opposite sex. 
“I didn’t go through therapy,” she explained. “I was kinda like, yeah I wanna be a guy. I think I’m a guy.” 
Southern asked how Sarah’s trans journey began. Sarah recalled how in “late elementary or early high school,” a trans person came into her school to talk about their experience and describe how kids who feel like they don’t fit in may actually be trans. 
Following that school presentation, Sarah said she went to her mom and said, “Hey. I think I’m a boy.”  
Next, she went to the Vancouver Children’s Hospital, where Sarah said she was told she’d need to undergo therapy to be prescribed hormones. But she claimed that wasn’t “true” and she just found “another source” — a youth clinic — to get the hormones because she couldn’t afford a therapist.
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At the clinic, Sarah said they briefly asked if there could be any other factors contributing to her dysphoria. She said they didn’t push too hard and she was 15 and therefore thought she knew her own mind. “I wanted what I wanted,” Sarah explained.
“I genuinely felt what the community describes as dysphoria,” she continued. “You’re putting that huge decision in a child’s hands,” Sarah said, getting visibly emotional. “They can change their minds, but when they do … “
Sarah recalled going on testosterone at 15 and going for a “top surgery” consultation at 16. The doctors allegedly said they had an opening in one month and pressured her to take the spot or risk waiting a long time for the opportunity. Sarah said the top surgery was completely free of charge to her as the patient.
After describing her experience with antidepressants, Sarah said, “A lot of things have more consequences than we could ever know.” She said it’s a lie to pitch puberty blockers as harmless and reversible.
Even after fearing she’d made a mistake, Sarah said she felt it was “too late to go back” because she’d already been on hormones and living as male for years. She said support for people looking to detransition was almost non-existent, which stood in stark contrast to the community she found when beginning her trans journey.
“Anytime anyone hears that I’m detransitioning, they don’t want to have anything to do with me,” she said. 
Sarah described all the things she has to do to reclaim her womanly features. Unlike the surgeries to transition, the procedures to detransition are costly, Sarah said. She mentioned laser hair removal and voice surgery, plus rebuilding her breasts post-mastectomy. 
“I just want to get to a point where I don’t look in the mirror and want to cry when I see myself,” she told Southern.
Next, Sarah described how she was embraced into the trans community back when she wanted to become a boy, but said there was nothing but silence and “awkwardness” when she decided to detransition. She described herself as an extremely shy person but feels it’s important to share her story for others like her who may regret transitioning.
“It does make it hard if it’s labeled as hate speech, because it’s not,” she said.  
In conclusion, Sarah delivered a powerful message to any young people who identify as trans and are thinking of going on hormones and getting surgeries. “You can rush into this, but you can’t rush out,” she warned. “They will coax you in, they will be there for you, but the moment you change your mind, there’s … I thought there was nobody. I was in such a dark place. I really don’t want to see anyone in that dark place.”
And for detransitioners, Sarah offered words of support. “You probably feel very, very alone right now … but you are loved, you’re not alone,” she said. “The best people I’ve met in life are the people who’ve gone through hell.”

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