by Ben Shapiro
46.Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, “1619 Project faces renewed criticism—this time from The New York Times,” CNN.com, October 12, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/12/media/new-york-times-1619-project-criticism/index.html.
47.“Oprah Winfrey, Nikole Hannah-Jones to Adapt ‘1619 Project’ for Film, TV,” HollywoodReporter.com, July 8, 2020, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/video/oprah-winfrey-nikole-hannah-jones-adapt-1619-project-watch-1302506.
48.Jacques Steinberg, “An All-Out Attack on ‘Conservative Misinformation,’” NYTimes.com, October 31, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/01/washington/01media.html.
49.Tucker Carlson and Vince Coglianese, “Inside Media Matters: Sources, memos reveal erratic behavior, close coordination with White House and news organizations,” DailyCaller.com, February 12, 2012, https://dailycaller.com/2012/02/12/inside-media-matters-sources-memos-reveal-erratic-behavior-close-coordination-with-white-house-and-news-organizations/.
50.Nicholas Kristof, “A Letter to My Conservative Friends,” NYTimes.com, January 27, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/27/opinion/trump-supporters-conspiracy-theories.html.
51.Margaret Sullivan, “Fox News is a hazard to our democracy. It’s time to take the fight to the Murdochs. Here’s how,” WashingtonPost.com, January 24, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/fox-news-is-a-hazard-to-our-democracy-its-time-to-take-the-fight-to-the-murdochs-heres-how/2021/01/22/1821f186-5cbe-11eb-b8bd-ee36b1cd18bf_story.html.
52.Max Boot, “Trump couldn’t have incited sedition without the help of Fox News,” WashingtonPost.com, January 18, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/18/trump-couldnt-have-incited-sedition-without-help-fox-news/.
53.Oliver Darcy, “Analysis: TV providers should not escape scrutiny for distributing disinformation,” CNN.com, January 8, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/08/media/tv-providers-disinfo-reliable-sources/index.html.
54.https://twitter.com/tomselliott/status/1351140855478947844.
55.Kara Swisher, “Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Bubble,” NYTimes.com, June 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/facebook-trump-free-speech.html?action=click&module=RelatedLinks&pgtype=Article.
56.Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical,” NYTimes.com, June 8, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html.
57.Jim VandeHei, “Our new reality: Three Americas,” Axios.com, January 10, 2021, https://www.axios.com/capitol-siege-misinformation-trump-d9c9738b-0852-408d-a24f-81c95938b41b.html?stream=top.
58.Armin Rosen, “Journalists Mobilize Against Free Speech,” TabletMag.com, January 24, 2021, https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/jounalists-against-free-speech.
59.Caitlin Flanagan, “The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story,” TheAtlantic.com, January 23, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must-learn-covington-catholic-story/581035/.
60.“Statement of Nick Sandmann, Covington Catholic High School junior, regarding incident at the Lincoln Memorial,” CNN.com, January 23, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/20/us/covington-kentucky-student-statement/index.html.
61.Caitlin Flanagan, “The Media Botched the Covington Catholic Story,” TheAtlantic.com, January 23, 2019, https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/01/media-must-learn-covington-catholic-story/581035/.
62.https://grabien.com/story.php?id=321993.
63.https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/1351649797820862465.
64.Isaac Schorr, “Jen Psaki Is Living Her Best Life,” NationalReview.com, January 25, 2021, https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/jen-psaki-is-living-her-best-life/.
65.Margaret Sullivan, “The media can be glad for the Biden White House’s return to normalcy. But let’s not be lulled,” WashingtonPost.com, January 21, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/the-media-can-be-glad-for-the-biden-white-houses-return-to-normalcy-but-lets-not-be-lulled/2021/01/20/ea444ac6-5b81-11eb-a976-bad6431e03e2_story.html.
CHAPTER 8: UNFRIENDING AMERICANS
1.Emma-Jo Morris and Gabrielle Fonrouge, “Smoking-gun email reveals how Hunter Biden introduced Ukrainian businessman to VP dad,” NYPost.com, October 14, 2020, https://nypost.com/2020/10/14/email-reveals-how-hunter-biden-introduced-ukrainian-biz-man-to-dad/.
2.Ben Schreckinger, “Biden Inc.,” Politico.com, August 2, 2019, https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/08/02/joe-biden-investigation-hunter-brother-hedge-fund-money-2020-campaign-227407.
3.Tim Marcin, “Hunter Biden Admits His Last Name Has Opened Basically Every Door for Him,” Vice.com, October 15, 2019, https://www.vice.com/en/article/a35y9k/hunter-biden-admits-his-last-name-has-opened-basically-every-door-for-him.
4.Mark Moore, “Joe Biden’s testy response to NBC question about Hunter’s dealings in Ukraine,” NYPost.com, February 3, 2020, https://nypost.com/2020/02/03/joe-bides-testy-response-to-nbc-question-about-hunters-dealings-in-ukraine/.
5.“Read Trump’s phone conversation with Volodymr Zelensky,” CNN.com, September 26, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/politics/donald-trump-ukraine-transcript-call/index.html.
6.Ebony Bowden and Steven Nelson, “Hunter’s ex-partner Tony Bobulinski: Joe Biden’s a liar and here’s the proof,” NYPost.com, October 22, 2020, https://nypost.com/2020/10/22/hunter-ex-partner-tony-bobulinski-calls-joe-biden-a-liar/.
7.Natasha Bertrand, “Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say,” Politico.com, October 19, 2020, https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/19/hunter-biden-story-russian-disinfo-430276.
8.Evan Perez and Pamela Brown, “Federal criminal investigation into Hunter Biden focuses on his business dealings in China,” CNN.com, December 10, 2020, https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/politics/hunter-biden-tax-investigtation/index.html.
9.Paul Bedard, “Media’s hiding of Hunter Biden scandal robbed Trump of clear win: Poll,” MSN.com, November 13, 2020, https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/media-s-hiding-of-hunter-biden-scandal-robbed-trump-of-clear-win-poll/ar-BB1aZGcF.
10.Benjamin Hart, “Twitter Backs Down After Squelching New York Post’s Hunter Biden Story,” NYMag.com, October 16, 2020, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/10/twitter-facebook-block-ny-post-hunter-biden-article.html.
11.Audrey Conklin, “Facebook official who said platform is reducing distribution of Hunter Biden has worked for top Dems,” FoxNews.com, October 14, 2020, https://www.foxnews.com/politics/facebook-spokesperson-top-democrats-new-york-post.
12.https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316395902479872000.
13.https://twitter.com/andymstone/status/1316423671314026496.
14.Alex Hern, “Facebook leak reveals policies on restricting New York Post’s Biden story,” TheGuardian.com, October 30, 2020, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/oct/30/facebook-leak-reveals-policies-restricting-new-york-post-biden-story.
15.47 U.S. Code §230.
16.“Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act,” EFF.org, https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230.
17.“CDA 230: Legislative History,” EFF.org, https://www.eff.org/issues/cda230/legislative-history.
18.47 U.S. Code §230.
19.Mark Zuckerberg, “Bring the World Closer Together,” Facebook.com, June 22, 2017, https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/22/bring-the-world-closer-together/.
20.Justin Fox, “Why Twitter’s Mission Statement Matters,” HBR.org, November 13, 2014, https://hbr.org/2014/11/why-twitters-mission-statement-matters.
21.Angie Drobnic Holan, “2016 Lie of the Year: Fake news,” Politifact.com, December 13, 2016, https://www.politifact.com/article/2016/dec/13/2016-lie-year-fake-news/.
22.David Remnick, “Obama Reckons with a Trump Presidency,” NewYorker.com, November 18, 2016, https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/11/28/obama-reckons-with-a-trump-presidency.
23.Scott Shackford, “Senator Feinstein’s Threat to ‘Do Something’ to Social Media Companies Is a Bigger Danger to Democracy Than Russia,” Reason.com, November 3, 2017, https://reason.com/2017/11/03/sen
-feinsteins-threat-to-do-something-to/.
24.Kurt Wagner, “Mark Zuckerberg says it’s ‘crazy’ to think fake news stories got Trump elected,” Vox.com, November 11, 2016, https://www.vox.com/2016/11/11/13596792/facebook-fake-news-mark-zuckerberg-donald-trump.
25.Mark Zuckerberg, “Building Global Community,” Facebook.com, February 16, 2017, https://www.facebook.com/notes/mark-zuckerberg/building-global-community/10103508221158471/?pnref=story.
26.“Transcript of Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate hearing,” WashingtonPost.com, April 10, 2018, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/10/transcript-of-mark-zuckerbergs-senate-hearing/.
27.Tony Romm, “Zuckerberg: Standing for Voice and Expression,” WashingtonPost.com, October 17, 2019, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/10/17/zuckerberg-standing-voice-free-expression/.
28.Alison Durkee, “Jack Dorsey Sees a ‘Major Gap and Flaw’ in Mark Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Argument,” VanityFair.com, October 25, 2019, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/jack-dorsey-mark-zuckerberg-free-speech-political-ads-facebook.
29.Sara Rimer, “Jack Dorsey, Twitter and Square Cofounder, Donates $10 Million to BU Center for Antiracist Research,” BU.edu, August 20, 2020, https://www.bu.edu/articles/2020/jack-dorsey-bu-center-for-antiracist-research-gift/.
30.Kara Swisher, “Zuckerberg’s Free Speech Bubble,” NYTimes.com, June 3, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/03/opinion/facebook-trump-free-speech.html.
31.Alison Durkee, “‘So You Won’t Take Down Lies?’ AOC Blasts Mark Zuckerberg in Testy House Hearing,” VanityFair.com, October 24, 2019, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/10/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-house-testimony-aoc.
32.Cecilia Kang, “Biden Prepares Attack on Facebook’s Speech Policies,” NYTimes.com, June 11, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/technology/biden-facebook-misinformation.html.
33.“Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on Russian Active Measures Campaigns and Interference in the 2016 Election, Volume 2: Russia’s Use of Social Media with Additional Views,” Intelligence.senate.gov, https://www.intelligence.senate.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Report_Volume2.pdf.
34.Nicholas Thompson and Issie Lapowsky, “How Russian Trolls Used Meme Warfare to Divide America,” Wired.com, December 17, 2018, https://www.wired.com/story/russia-ira-propaganda-senate-report/.
35.Molly Ball, “The Secret History of the Shadow Campaign That Saved the 2020 Election,” Time.com, February 4, 2021, https://time.com/5936036/secret-2020-election-campaign/.
36.Eliza Shearer and Elizabeth Grieco, “Americans Are Wary of the Role Social Media Sites Play in Delivering the News,” Journalism.org, October 2, 2019, https://www.journalism.org/2019/10/02/americans-are-wary-of-the-role-social-media-sites-play-in-delivering-the-news/.
37.Kevin Roose, “The Making of a YouTube Radical,” NYTimes.com, June 8, 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/06/08/technology/youtube-radical.html.
38.Lesley Stahl, “How Does YouTube Handle the Site’s Misinformation, Conspiracy Theories, and Hate?,” CBSNews.com, December 1, 2019, https://www.cbsnews.com/news/is-youtube-doing-enough-to-fight-hate-speech-and-conspiracy-theories-60-minutes-2019-12-01/.
39.Josh Constine, “Facebook will change algorithm to demote ‘borderline content’ that almost violates policies,” TechCrunch.com, November 15, 2018, https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/15/facebook-borderline-content/?guccounter=1.
40.Kevin Roose, Mike Isaac, and Sheera Frankel, “Facebook Struggles to Balance Civility and Growth,” NYTimes.com, November 24, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-election-misinformation.html.
41.Ben Shapiro, “Facebook Unveils Plan to Defeat ‘Fake News’: Rely on leftist Fact-Checkers,” DailyWire.com, December 15, 2016, https://www.dailywire.com/news/facebook-unveils-plan-defeat-fake-news-rely-ben-shapiro.
42.Bethania Palma, “Did AOC Exaggerate the Danger She Was in During Capitol Riot?,” Snopes.com, February 3, 2021, https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/aoc-capitol-attack/.
43.Stephen J. Ceci, “The Psychology of Fact-Checking,” ScientificAmerican.com, October 25, 2020, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-psychology-of-fact-checking1/.
44.Elizabeth Dwoskin, Nitasha Tiku, and Heather Kelly, “Facebook to start policing anti-Black hate speech more aggressively than anti-White comments, documents show,” WashingtonPost.com, December 3, 2020, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/12/03/facebook-hate-speech/.
45.Emine Saner, “YouTube’s Susan Wojcicki: ‘Where’s the line of free speech—are you removing voices that should be heard?,’” TheGuardian.com, August 10, 2019, https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/aug/10/youtube-susan-wojcicki-ceo-where-line-removing-voices-heard.
46.https://www.facebook.com/communitystandards/hate_speech/.
47.Tony Romm and Elizabeth Dwoskin, “Trump banned from Facebook indefinitely, CEO Mark Zuckerberg says,” WashingtonPost.com, January 7, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/07/trump-twitter-ban/.
48.“Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump,” Twitter.com, January 8, 2021, https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html.
49.“Yann LeCun Quits Twitter Amid Acrimonious Exchanges on AI Bias,” SyncedReview.com, June 30, 2020, https://syncedreview.com/2020/06/30/yann-lecun-quits-twitter-amid-acrimonious-exchanges-on-ai-bias/.
50.Dan Levin, “A Racial Slur, a Viral Video, and a Reckoning,” NYTimes.com, December 26, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/mimi-groves-jimmy-galligan-racial-slurs.html.
51.Jon Ronson, “How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco’s Life,” NYTimes.com, February 12, 2015, https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/15/magazine/how-one-stupid-tweet-ruined-justine-saccos-life.html.
52.Ari Levy, “Trump fans are flocking to the social media app Parler—its CEO is begging liberals to join them,” CNBC.com, June 27, 2020, https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/27/parler-ceo-wants-liberal-to-join-the-pro-trump-crowd-on-the-app.html.
53.Brian Fung, “Parler has now been booted by Amazon, Apple and Google,” CNN.com, January 11, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/09/tech/parler-suspended-apple-app-store/index.html.
54.https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1358467793323257857.
55.Brian X. Chen and Kevin Roose, “Are Private Messaging Apps the Next Misinformation Hot Spot?,” NYTimes.com, February 3, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/technology/personaltech/telegram-signal-misinformation.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes.
56.Eliza Shearer and Elizabeth Grieco, “Americans Are Wary of the Role Social Media Sites Play in Delivering the News,” Journalism.org, October 2, 2019, https://www.journalism.org/2019/10/02/americans-are-wary-of-the-role-social-media-sites-play-in-delivering-the-news/.
57.H. Tankovska, “Facebook: Number of monthly active users worldwide 2008–2020”, https://www.statista.com/statistics/264810/number-of-monthly-active-facebook-users-worldwide/#:~:text=With%20roughly%202.8%20billion%20monthly,network%20ever%20to%20do%20so.
58.Jeff Desjardins, “How Google retains more than 90% of market share,” BusinessInsider.com, April 23, 2018, https://www.businessinsider.com/how-google-retains-more-than-90-of-market-share-2018-4.
59.Greg Stirling, “Almost 70% of digital ad spending going to Google, Facebook, Amazon, says analyst firm,” MarketingLand.com, June 17, 2019, https://marketingland.com/almost-70-of-digital-ad-spending-going-to-google-facebook-amazon-says-analyst-firm-262565#:~:text=However%2C%20eMarketer%20revised%20downward%20its,nearly%2050%25%20to%2038%25.&text=Google%2C%20Facebook%20and%20Amazon%20are,dollars%20spent%20according%20to%20eMarketer.
THE CHOICE BEFORE US
1.Emma Nolan, “What Did Gina Carano Say? ‘The Mandalorian’ Star Fired after Instagram Holocaust Post,” Newsweek.com, February 11, 2021, https://www.newsweek.com/what-gina-carano-said-about-holocaust-mandalorian-fired-1568539.
2.“‘The Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Fired Amid Social Media Controversy,” THR.com, February 10, 2021, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com
/news/the-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-fired-amid-social-media-controversy.
3.Emma Nolan, “What Did Gina Carano Say? ‘The Mandalorian’ Star Fired after Instagram Holocaust Post,” Newsweek.com, February 11, 2021, https://www.newsweek.com/what-gina-carano-said-about-holocaust-mandalorian-fired-1568539.
4.“‘The Mandalorian’ Star Gina Carano Fired Amid Social Media Controversy,” THR.com, February 10, 2021, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/the-mandalorian-star-gina-carano-fired-amid-social-media-controversy.
5.https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1359833571075227648.
6.Andreas Wiseman, “Carano Hits Back, Announces New Movie Project with Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire: ‘They Can’t Cancel Us If We Don’t Let Them,’” Deadline.com, February 12, 2021, https://deadline.com/2021/02/gina-carano-mandalorian-ben-shapiro-hits-back-cancel-culture-1234692971/.
7.Marc Tracy, “Two Journalists Exit New York Times After Criticism of Past Behavior,” NYTimes.com, February 5, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/business/media/donald-mcneil-andy-mills-leave-nyt.html.
8.Dylan Byers, “New York Times editor walks back statement on racial slurs,” NBCNews.com, February 11, 2021, https://www.nbcnews.com/news/all/new-york-times-editor-walks-back-statement-racial-slurs-n1257482.
9.Joe Pompeo, “‘It’s Chaos’: Behind the Scenes of Donald McNeil’s New York Times Exit,” VanityFair.com, February 11, 2021, https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/02/behind-the-scenes-of-donald-mcneils-new-york-times-exit.
10.Pedro Domingos, “Beating Back Cancel Culture: A Case Study from the Field of Artificial Intelligence,” January 27, 2021, https://quillette.com/2021/01/27/beating-back-cancel-culture-a-case-study-from-the-field-of-artificial-intelligence/.
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