Ben Shapiro: NY Times, Media Matters Pressuring ‘YouTube to Demonetize and Penalize’ Conservatives
“They want to destroy the dissemination of information from people on the Right one week prior to an election.”
The Daily Wire’s Ben Shapiro exposed the New York Times and Media Matters working together to pressure YouTube to silence conservative voices.
We also know the NYT contacted Tucker Carlson. Shapiro said the newspaper contacted others at The Daily Wire, too.
The far-left “media watchdog” organization founded by David Brock goes after conservatives, establishing boycotts and campaigns to boycott those voices.
Andrew Breitbart received a lot of wrath from the group, along with those who worked with him, like Dana Loesch.
Here’s Ben’s long Twitter thread.
1/ If you were wondering what the legacy media would plan for its October surprise, wonder no longer: it's here. Today, I received the following text from a reporter at @NYTimes: pic.twitter.com/YjK7yiVhpn
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
2/ What, precisely, is NYT doing? It's perfectly obvious: using research from Media Matters, a radical Left-wing organization whose sole purpose is destroying conservative media (see below), in order to pressure YouTube to demonetize and penalize any and all conservatives ONE… pic.twitter.com/GzgXdVSwhF
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
3/ That's the entire game here. Run an article in America's "most trusted newspaper" that declares pretty much every major conservative a purveyor of "misinformation" on YouTube, thus strong-arming YouTube into taking action against conservatives.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
4/ This isn't about "election misinformation." Obviously. As pretty much everyone knows, I have always acknowledged that Joe Biden won the 2020 election. And if it is "election misinformation" to point out the "rigging" of the voting rules for election 2020, resulting in massive… pic.twitter.com/bxaNfpLJV1
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
5/ And, by the way, even if someone *does* think Joe Biden didn’t win the election, that is still protected speech under the First Amendment
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
6/ But that's the point: you don't have to purvey "misinformation" to be the target. You just have to support Trump.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
7/ This is totally scandalous. In 2020, the legacy media shut down dissemination of the Hunter Biden laptop story and laundered the claim that it was all Russian disinformation, all to get Joe Biden elected.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
8/ In 2024, they're even more brazen: they're openly trying to intimidate YouTube, one of the most dominant news platforms in America, into shutting down anyone who isn't pro-Kamala. pic.twitter.com/nwbwfRY3zf
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
9/ Again, understand the mission from these supposed guardians of free speech and American liberty: silence the opposition the WEEK BEFORE THE 2024 ELECTION.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
10/ They can't get away with it, and they won't. If ever you doubted that The New York Times is part of the Democrat-Media Human Centipede (see below), doubt no longer. pic.twitter.com/MGxqzNgMds
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
11/ So, The New York Times wants comment? Here's my comment: kindly, go f*ck yourself.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 29, 2024
“The New York Times is overtly, clearly admitting to using Media Matters research in order to pressure YouTube to demonetize people on the Right and destroy them, because when you are demonetized, that also limits your reach,” Shapiro wrote at The Daily Wire. “They want to destroy the dissemination of information from people on the Right one week prior to an election.”
— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) October 29, 2024
A Pew Research survey discovered that 37% of Americans consume their news on YouTube.
Shapiro knew the context of the NYT article had nothing to do with election misinformation:
Obviously, none of this is about election misinformation and about shutting down “bad information,” as everyone knows.
How do I know? Because they reached out to me about “election misinformation.” To me, of all people. If you listen to the show, you know I have been perfectly consistent since November of 2020 in that I believe Joe Biden won the 2020 election. I thought Donald Trump had every right to legally challenge that election, but I did not see the actual evidence that the allegations he was making about fraud in the election and the election itself were sufficient to overcome the state certification of the ballots.
So of all the people to come to about election misinformation, coming to me is absolute proof that this trick has nothing to do with election misinformation. Instead, it is about silencing anybody on the Right. That is the goal. It is always the goal for the Left. It’s always the goal for the New York Times.
Shapiro also pointed out the quote he apparently said, “Your party rigged many of the voting rules in advance of the election in order to ensure an extraordinary number of mail-in ballots, ballot harvesting…”
Shapiro brought the receipts:
FiveThirtyEight wrote in 2023, “One of the most striking aspects of the 2020 election was the unprecedented use of mail-in voting. Nearly half (43 percent) of all voters cast a ballot by mail in 2020, a record share, according to the latest Survey of the Performance of American Elections, a post-election poll of tens of thousands of registered voters run by MIT political scientist Charles Stewart III. Much of this was driven by COVID-19 — states changed voting rules and requirements to make it easier to vote by mail, and voters hoping to avoid crowded polling places in the middle of a pandemic took advantage.”
Wait, that sounds like rigging the voting rules in order to increase mail-in balloting.
Maybe they ought to fact-check CBS News about ballot harvesting. In 2020, CBS News reported, “The Nevada Assembly passed legislation that would allow the state to mail a ballot to every registered voter, and the bill allows for third parties to collect ballots. Fierson argues that the threat to Postal Service funding and the warning of mail delays ‘makes ballot assistance even more important.’ But critics argue it opens the door to abuse and interference. The Nevada law does not limit how many ballots a person can collect. The Trump reelection campaign filed a lawsuit against the measure in Nevada and in other states.”
Again, that sounds like rigging the rules so as to increase ballot harvesting.
Let’s not forget how the left, Democrats, and media suppressed The New York Post’s expose of Hunter Biden’s laptop in October 2020.
Disgusting. I have no respect for anyone who uses Media Matters as a source for “misinformation.” I saw firsthand what they tried to do to Andrew.
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A few of YouTube series I follow have been demonetize and has been happening all year. Many have moved to other forms as well. And I am not even talking political as we would think, more not following Leftists politics.
Further evidence that the Democrat Party, the party of “tolerance”, has absolutely NO TOLERANCE for opposing views.
When a Democrat talks about tolerance they are asking for everyone else to tolerate, if not celebrate, what ever evil thing they are supporting at that moment.
Leftist don’t really want to hear your opinion/beliefs. What they want is to hear their opinions/beliefs coming out of your mouth.
Ben Shapiro has great courage, integrity, and takes no shit. I admire him. Listen to him debate Sam Harris, an “intellectual” supporting Kamala.
Like YouTube needs to be “pressured” to act against Conservatives.
Curiously Trump was in on the first Media Matters op I know of, cancelling Don Imus.
Imus thought Hillary was morally repugnant and wouldn’t let her on the show for his highly sought political interviews, but did let Obama on.
Hillary had Imus’s friend Trump lobby to get Hillary on the show. No way, said Imus, and Trump reported back to Hillary’s people. The next day Media Matters seized on the first thing Imus said (“nappy headed ho’s” about Rutgers women’s basketball team beating another team by trash-talking them) and raised it into a racist moral complaint. In a few days Imus was gone from MSNBC and then from the radio. The point having been to prevent Obama from getting favorable interviews if Hillary couldn’t.
Anyway that’s a Media Matters Trump connection.
Given the current state of the WNBA infighting about Caitlin Clark….Imus may have been prescient.
the truth always gets you punished
Didn’t they go after Rush before that? Worked about as good as them taking a run at Rogan.
Trump: please interview Hillary.
Imus: no.
Trump: okay.
And rhardin turns that conversation into a Hillary-Trump mob hitjob.
Trump was a friend to everybody, just doing what he was sent to do. He was part of a machination that Hillary was running against Obama at any cost, though, and the first action of Media Matters as far as I know.
Hillary means dead bodies.
“as far as I know”
Translation, “the dog ate my homework.”
So, it all reduces down to Tump being an innocent interlocutor and nothing more that.
Guilt by association is a game played by _____
_____ a foaming-at-the-mouth rabid NeverTrumper in this case.
What role did Trump play in the MM op? None that you cite. He carried a messages between Hillary and Imus. He had nothing to do with how MM handled Imus after that point. There is no connection between Trump and MM here. MM didn’t contact him, he did not report to MM, as you tell the story. Are you leaving something out? Did Hillary have a plan to cancel Imus if she didn’t get her interview? If so, was Trump aware of this plan?
Considering that Shapiro fully believes that Biden was elected in a free and fair election, Ben highlights how rabidly narrow minded Media Matters is.
Spoiler alert: The 2020 election was stolen. I’d have Shapiro explain why the old adage about “the straw that broke the camel’s back” couldn’t apply to the swing state shenanigans in the early hours of 11/4/2020.
There were far too many strange things happening from non existent broken water pipes in GA to sudden 0300 vote spikes in MI for my taste.
I feel this GOP is more determined to go after Democrat voting shenanigans this time round?
Let’s hope that trust isn’t misplaced!
they went after it with the scotus regarding PA’s CLEAR violation of their own state law in 2020
the gop is reactive
they need to be proactive
they have failed miserably in that
Short version: YouTube/Google demonetizing and unindexing conservative voices continues apace.
In related news, Internet Archive unindexes and sequesters conservative viewpoints. Never donate money to archive.org.
At one time that was clear election interference now it’s just misinformation
Charlie Brown, Lucy, football….. Republicans, Democrats, Elections
Galt is the answer. They can’t operate without electricity and technicians.
Media matters is highly partisan outfit and it is past time they and other equally partisan hack outfits such as SPLC were treated with the contempt and irrelevance they deserve.
And sued in to oblivion!
Say, isn’t Elon taking these clowns to court??
good man shapiro
when you can change the language like the left does so that the term
“Censorship”isnt used but
misinformation disinformation etc etc is used and then given their usual
fluid meanings…as in…whatever we say it means …it means
or whatever we say is your intentions….is your intentions
makes america a 3rd world country
“A Pew Research survey discovered that 37% of Americans consume their news on YouTube.”
Why don’t they just go straight to TikTok, where they can watch it be delivered by humorous cartoon figures, like Kamala Possible?
Once again, any conservative whose comint depends on the kindness of his enemy is a dead man walking. Roosevelt didn’t use the German PTT to communicate with Churchill. Whining that it’s “too hard” to get the same eyeballs on a competing but sympathetic carrier (whether there is one or you have to make one) does zippo to add a minute more of existence to your bad business plan.
Where does the Great Debunker reside? Debunk to leftists means we disagree, therefore it’s false.