'Doesn’t matter': Michael Knowles lauds YouTube for allowing conspiracy theories and fake news
Right-wing Daily Wire host Michael Knowles vociferously concluded on Tuesday's edition of his show that the 2020 election was "obviously rife with fraud and we all know it" because YouTube reverted to allowing conspiracy theories and fake news to be posted by its users.
Knowles began by mentioning the 2024 presidential race.
"Now, what about some other candidates? You know there's this candidate running against Joe Biden — not Marianne Williamson, not the dark psychic energy — I'm talking about Robert Kennedy Junior. RFK Jr. had been banned from Instagram, and Facebook, which owns Instagram, has lifted that ban. Why had he been banned? Well, because RFK Jr. is skeptical of the medical establishment, and he thinks vaccines are often harmful. And he thought COVID was, essentially, a big hoax. And you previously were not allowed to say that on a lot of social media, including Instagram. Now Instagram says, okay, he's back. He's back. That's fine," Knowles opined. "YouTube just came out, and YouTube announced that they are no longer going to censor people for saying that the 2020 election was obviously rife with fraud. I'm still hedging my bets a little bit, so I don't wanna make a declarative statement. I'm just observing that the new YouTube policy is that the 2020 election was transparently, obviously rife with fraud and we all know it. Maybe I stepped over the line there. I don't know. But YouTube's saying we're not gonna take you down for saying that. Okay. Great. Why? That's so strange. We're heading into an election year."
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Knowles mused that "there are two reasons, I think, why big tech is starting to lighten up on some of the censorship of conservatives."
Number one? Twitter.
"That's the one the rest of big tech didn't count on, which is that Elon Musk was gonna buy Twitter, and that he was actually going to be able to, for now, at least, withstand the forces of censoring conservatives, and he is going to make it, basically, a free speech platform or, at the very least, reinstitute normal standards of speech. So don't suppress the conservatives. I don't think they were counting on that," Knowles said. "I think they're afraid that Twitter has a real opportunity to gain some market share there. And so Meta and Alphabet, you know, Facebook and Google and YouTube, are starting to loosen up for that reason."
Number two, according to Knowles, is that recently popular misinformation topics are irrelevant.
"The other reason, though — that's — that was the rosy reason. The more, I don't know, doer cynical pessimistic reason, I think, is that those issues just don't really matter anymore," Knowles declared. "Oh, yeah. You can talk about vaccines. You can talk about the lockdowns and all the fake COVID science. Yeah because we already did it. We already did COVID. We already locked it all down. We already made you inject yourselves with that experimental drug. Yeah. Okay. We already got you fired from your job. We got you kicked out of your school. Okay. And now the evidence is out, and you're gonna talk about the evidence about how a lot of what we said wasn't true. Yeah. Okay. Fine. Yeah. Oops. Oopsie daisy. Okay. Yeah. You got us. Right? We're moving on to issues that matter now. The 2020 election. Yeah. That's a, who cares? That's over. We did it. Yeah. We did it. We got whatever strategies we wanted, whatever new voting rules we wanted, even if they were in contravention of state constitutions, like in Pennsylvania, yeah, we did it. And then the election happened, and then people thought about it, but then Biden's been president now for a couple of years. Yeah. Okay. You can talk about how there was a lot of fraud. Fine. Doesn't matter because we're moving on to the next thing. And what's the next thing?"
Knowles implied that the word "woman" is taboo because families have diversified from the so-called traditional nuclear structure.
"The next thing is obviously — can I, I don't even know if I can say the word. On big tech, can I even say the word — you know that, you know that ideology that says that if you're one type of human being you might secretly be a second type of human being? Like, you might, you're one — if you're like the kinda person who has a big Adam's apple and beard that you might secretly be the kind of person that has like, rounder hips and gives birth? You know, that idea? I don't even wanna say it cause they're clamping down on it so hard. You know which one I'm talking about?" Knowles retorted. "That's the new stuff. Pride. The sexual revolution. The redefinition of family. The redefinition — the reordering of education to support this new view of the family. That's the new thing. And that's what they're gonna censor — that's what they are censoring for. That's gonna be a bigger deal."
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