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🗓️ 21 April 2025
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Andrew Callahan breaks down how Big Tech censorship during the pandemic backfired, fueling anti-establishment sentiment and elevating Trump’s appeal. He and Patrick Bet-David dive into the lab leak theory, Fauci worship, and how the internet found its voice again post-2022.
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0:00.0 | People always ask me, why do you think Trump won? And I think that Facebook censorship in 2020 played a huge role in that. |
0:05.5 | I've said it before. It was like a collective Tionaman Square moment for so many people who were critical of the vaccine and lockdown mandates. |
0:12.9 | Because whenever you're banned from a social media platform, your first logical next step is I'm banned because I'm speaking the truth. Not I'm banned |
0:22.9 | because I'm propagating misinformation that's going to be harmful to people. You think if the |
0:26.6 | establishment, if a large social media company takes little old me's page down for expressing |
0:32.3 | my First Amendment right and saying my opinion about the Moderna vaccine or something like that, |
0:37.0 | whether it's right or wrong, |
0:38.2 | you feel that you're on that you are an anti-establishment person who is inherently telling the truth |
0:43.0 | that's being censored by the greater machine. And so someone like Trump comes along and he's seen |
0:47.6 | by them as being like the arbiter of truth and justice. And so Mark Zuckerberg and all those |
0:52.9 | people during 2020 who colluded to |
0:55.2 | de-platform people are paying for their mistakes big time. So they were wrong. |
1:00.1 | De-platforming people is wrong. No, but they were wrong about the position they took that they |
1:05.9 | didn't allow any argument about vaccine or that the lab leak came from China, that, you know, forcing |
1:12.9 | military personnel to take the vaccine or else you got to get out or other doctors who are |
1:18.1 | licensed from major institutions who practice medicine who had an opposing position towards |
1:23.9 | the vaccine. Those videos were taken down by Channel 5, like literally KKLA or KTLA. |
1:28.9 | I was like, we didn't take it down. No, now you, but Channel 5 in California, they were |
1:32.7 | taken on because of this. And then today, White House comes out with this, the lab leak origin. |
1:37.6 | Rob, if you can go a little bit lower. I think this is today or yesterday. Today. |
1:40.5 | The proximal origin of COVID-19, SARS,CoV-2, COVID-2 publication, which was used |
1:47.4 | repeatedly by public health officials on the media to distract the lab leak, was prompted by Dr. |
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