Thread by @benshapiro

🧵Here’s how the World Economic Forum is quietly working to demonetize and deplatform right-of-center voices, including @realDailyWire, using authoritarian tactics and hall monitor “fact-checkers” like @NewsGuardRating.

2/ 90% of all global ad dollars are controlled by members of the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA), which includes brands like @Hersheys @Disney @ProcterGamble. In 2019, they launched the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM), which was then adopted by the WEF.

3/ GARM is an unholy alliance between huge advertisers and social media companies like Google’s YouTube, China’s TikTok, Meta’s Facebook & Instagram, and even Twitter/X and Snapchat. GARM developed something they call the “brand safety floor & suitability framework.”

4/ This “framework” might be fine if it stuck to ensuring we keep illegal & objectively harmful content offline, like child pornography. But their authoritarian nature kicked in, & they decided to ban cultural commentary they don't approve of, like when we say men can't be women.

5/ Legacy media, new media, and even independent podcasters are subject to these rules. If you violate them and say true things the elites don't like, they can blacklist you, demonetize you, or deplatform you.

6/ Do I believe for one second that Klaus Schwab thinks Dylan Mulvaney is a woman? No. But those like him are seeking to consolidate power, and they understand that adopting Left-wing positions helps them in two discrete ways:

7/ 1. These social positions degrade family & community, making power easier to take from the top. 2. It gets the activist class fighting FOR them instead of against them. The normal anti-capitalist "speak truth to power" crowd now have jobs as foot soldiers of the powerful.

8/ One such place they work is GARM’s partner @NewsGuardRating. The little compliance crusaders at NewsGuard engage in performative virtue signaling by going around issuing scores to media outlets based on their allegedly “apolitical” criteria.

9/ Their criteria is anything but apolitical, and their friends over at GARM are now being subpoenaed by @Jim_Jordan’s Judiciary Committee for appearing to “facilitate collusion” in a way that “may violate U.S. antitrust law.”

10/ There are certain industries where a violation of antitrust law isn’t going to result in disaster. The Left’s increasing desire to monopolize news and commentary isn't one of them. Take the time to know the players like your freedom depends on it, because it does.