Zuckerberg Cancels Facebook Censorship & Begs Trump For Forgiveness

Order a copy of Mike Papantonio's new book at

Subscribe to stay connected to our stories

Support us by becoming a member on YouTube

Or Support us on Patreon

Buy Ring of Fire merch

Find us on social media!

*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

The Zuckerberg Rogan interview, there was nothing equivocal about what Zuckerberg said. He said that the administration would call him almost daily, screaming at him, yelling at him to tell him that he has to censor. And he tells the story, really, of that's where it really started to turn with him. That's where he says, I can't be part of this and the truth is, he then says, we're going to do away with censorship. We're not going to do it anymore.

We're going to do away with fact checking.

Well, fact checking. I call it censorship. We just use different terms. Maybe it's the same thing, but I want to call it censorship. You call it fact checking. Okay. So in the fact checking, he says that we've gone too far and that's his argument and the argument's been out there for a long time. You've got algorithms that affect the flow of whether it's conservative or liberal. You have pinheads that are supposed to be making decisions of whether something's misinformation. The problem has always been that whether it's the right doing the fact checking or that's left doing the fact checking the ideology drives what those fact-checkers decide. And it's clearly there. I call 'em, to me the answer is to let the comment warriors, the netizens, the people who spend all frigging day because they don't have a life.

The crazy people.

The crazy people in front of a computer making comments. Let them find this stuff and let the process work out. What do you think?

I think that is a poor system because on the community note system, I can do a video talking about how cutting taxes for the wealthy does not benefit the working class at all. A conservative can come on there, add a community note that cannot be removed and say, trickle down economics is the best thing that ever happened for the middle class in America and now suddenly that statement lives at the bottom of my video for every single person who sees it. It's not true, but that's what the community note system allows. But with the Rogan interview, I think what's really funny about it is Zuckerberg makes those claims, like you said, they would call us screaming, and then Rogan actually pressed him. He's like, oh, they called you. Well, no, no. I didn't actually talk to them. I had heard that they talked to some people who worked for me. Well, who? Who from the administration? Well, I don't know who from the administration actually did it. Um, did you get the phone calls recorded? No. I don't think we recorded anything. If Zuckerberg were on the stand and you're grilling him and those were his answers, you would turn to the jury and be like, are you really going to take this guy at his face value when he has no evidence to back it up? Can't name a single person. Look, I'm not saying it didn't happen.

It occurred, Farron.

Because this was about Covid misinformation. And it also, Zuckerberg conveniently ignored when the Trump administration had them remove Covid misinformation in 2020, which was a good thing and they did it. So there's a lot of things that Zuckerberg couldn't answer, and a lot of it has to do with what are his motives right now.

Oh, come on. We know. We've done two stories on it. He wants Daddy Trump to save him.

The last two weeks, Zuckerberg has gone down to Mar-a-Lago. He has kissed the ring. He's admitted to basically begging Donald Trump to interfere with the European Union so that they stop their antitrust case against him. He wants the federal government to stop their antitrust case against him, which comes up in April. So he's got a lot at stake here, and he's going all in on the Trump folks.

Million dollars for the inauguration. Look, I don't really care what his motive is. I'm glad he's doing it. I'm just pleased to death this is occurring regardless of what his motive is. Look, you only got a couple of concerns. 230, you got that out there still.