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The real reason that tech billionaires like Mark Zuckerberg are going all in on MAGA, flip-flopping

on issues like hate speech and content moderation and what that could mean for the future of free speech online. Then how the gambling industry is leveraging the AI boom

to hypercharge its exploitations of customers, fuel addictions, and drive new laws as it

sinks its teeth even deeper into the American economy. We're making the deep dive today on your

brand new Philip DeFranco show you daily dive into the news, how it's being covered, and how people

are reacting to. Right, and that, because a little announcement is this week is going to be a little

different. I promise my wife, we could go on a vacation and I would not spend half of it in a hotel

room shooting the show. So this week, across your four Philip DeFranco shows, I shot 11 deep dives into

really, really important news you should know about. We're deep diving into some of the most interesting, concerning, and or downright scary stories that I've seen over the last few weeks

and months that matter in the now and in the future. But that said, let's jump into deep dive

week in today's show, starting with this. I want to do a little bit of a deep dive with you today.

Because these days, there's one main billionaire in Trump's orbit that we talk about a lot. But right now, I want to talk about one who's now circling the president closer than ever, though, he doesn't have as big of a spotlight on it.

Because it seems like after years of flip-flopping or playing both sides on issues like free

speech, content moderation, and diversity, Mark Zuckerberg, and met along with him, they're going

all in on MAGA. And to fully appreciate and understand the situation, we got to go back to 2016 when Donald Trump won the presidency for the first time. And as you might remember, there were a lot of people trying to

explain what happened, with one of them being Facebook. The critics at the time, not only painting

the platform as an online echo chamber, but also blaming it for the near unchecked spread of

fake news, disinformation and conspiracy theories that they say propel Trump to victory. And as far as Mark Zuckerberg, of course, Facebook's founder and CEO, he defended the company at first, right, denying that the platform had any

impact on the election. And in fact, he called the claim that fake news on Facebook influenced the election

crazy. But then, just a few days later, he was writing an apologetic post and announcing a series of

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