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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Is Mark Zuckerberg Serious About Changing Meta?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-01-21. Transcript available.

let's talk about zuckerberg a little bit because he just had that kind of about
face sort of on
and facebook they just had that kind of about face on rogan where he was
talking about um
where's that clip that clip yeah right here where he kind of uh says the biden
administration would
call meta to scream and curse it then to censor true information on their
platforms this is what
zuckerberg said right what do you say play it real quick a little bit of it
these people from
the biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and
curse and it's like these
documents are it's all kind of out there did you record any of those phone
calls i don't no i don't
think i don't think we've but but i think i want to listen i mean their emails
the emails are published
it's all it's all kind of out there and um and they're like and basically it
just got to this
point where we were like no we're not gonna we're not gonna take down things
that are true okay that's
ridiculous um they want us to take down this meme of leonard yeah what do you
think about this to
me that i just don't know if i buy i don't because facebook didn't do the best
job of you know they
had issues over the years with the hunter biden thing right with russia stuff
where they wouldn't
let people say this is like they really chose to decide what was misinformation
so it
just seems weird that suddenly people are calling and screaming i left like the
simple facts and you're
like is this like it seemed like now you're trying to seem like like that wasn't
happening the whole
time and you weren't listening to it before type of vibe yeah it's a very like
convenient retelling of
history yes for zuckerberg to go um so the government was saying we have to
censor these
things that are true and we were like no we're not going to do that okay what
really happened is the
government said you're going to censor these things that are true and he said
yes sir and did it for
eight years okay and then at the end of these eight years when trump wins a
dominant victory
and now the guy who you kicked off of facebook is now president again and now
the whole culture's
turned against you and he's threatening to like you know like look into you he's
coming and there's a
lot of like pretty quasi-illegal stuff that was done so now you said okay we're
not going to do this
again while joe biden is literally on his hands and knees pooping his pants
yeah on the way out with
terrible numbers and donald trump's coming in popular again so okay yes so for
him to spin that as the
government said we should do this thing and we said no that's ridiculous okay
that's not exactly what
happened it seemed like he's just now back here trying to slurp back onto
humanity now if you that's a
slurp yeah yeah i i i agree um now there's and this is why joe you know remains
like the biggest
show is because he just gets these moments but if you the last time he was on
rogan's podcast was one
of the most interesting admissions and it was before he had done this 180 and
turned around but when joe
asked him about the hunter biden thing and he goes so so like the story with
the hunter biden laptop
how did you guys handle that and zuckerberg said the fbi came to us and told us
where there's about
to be a big russian dump so they must have known that this laptop was about to
come out and they went
to facebook told them preemptively it's russian disinformation and that's why
they censored the
whole thing and that is like that admission is like blatant election
interference by the fbi against the
sitting president which makes it that even that much worse because like in some
on some level like
if the fbi or the cia or someone like that was like interfering in an election
you'd already be
like okay that's crazy illegal unethical uh you know unconstitutional like we
don't have a democracy
if we have three letter agencies interfering in elections right however you'd
assume at least
they were doing it on the side of the president who they work for not against
the president who they
work for now we're in a level of like treason like you're working against the
commander-in-chief who
you're supposed to say sir yes sir to and follow his rules you know i mean okay
you if you're at the
fbi you're in the under the justice department but still like the president is
that this was in this
was in trump was in office yeah this is the one i'm referring to yes this one
this is when or i don't
know when the podcast was but he's talking about the hunter biden story which
was october of 2020.
so right before the election when trump is still in office okay let's play a
little bit of that
how do you guys handle things when they're a big news item that's controversial
like there was a lot
of attention on twitter during the election because of the hunter biden laptop
story the new york post
yeah so you guys censored that as well so we took a different path than twitter
um i mean basically the
background here is the fbi i think basically came to us some some folks on our
team and was like hey
just so you know like you should be on high alert there was the we we thought
there was a lot of
russian propaganda in the 2016 election we have it on notice that basically
there's about to be some
kind of dump of of um uh that's similar to that so just be vigilant so our
protocol is different from
twitter's what twitter did is they said you can't share this at all um we didn't
do that what we do
is we have um if something's reported to us as potentially um misinformation
important misinformation
we we also have this third-party fact-checking program because we don't want to
be deciding what's
true and false and for the i think it was five or seven days when it was
basically being um being
determined whether it was false um the distribution on facebook was decreased
but people were still
allowed to share it so you could still share it you could still consume it don't
say the distribution
is decreased okay how does that work so saying that they had some effect on it
though yeah well he goes
on to say that it was a meaningful uh impact that turning down the signal had
on it but what's
interesting is that he blatantly says that it was the fbi who came to them and
like told them that this
very true story which was a real scandal um that was an october surprise that
you know very clearly could
have moved the needle in the election they suppressed that for one reason only
and that's because they
wanted biden to win and not trump to win and zuckerberg played a big role in
that not as big
i guess as uh twitter um at the old oh yeah dorsey admitted it yeah yeah and i
look i do think to some
degree these guys are under duress from the government i mean they're
threatened and all types of pressure
is put on them to go along with the censorship stuff and to be you're basically
become communication in the
universe like you are like if everybody had to talk in like a hallway you're
the hallway you know you were
yeah well and and if you think about like even just the you know if you think
about the how much
government cares about controlling the narrative you know one of the things
that's really interesting from
the the more recent clip that the one we played first here um you know he says
that they were really
upset about a meme oh yeah it was leonardo dicaprio dicaprio meme like they
were really upset about that
which literally said isn't that fascinating in a way that they are so
threatened by like you making
a joke about their but if you like zoom out right and think about it it's like
governments always
insist on controlling monopolizing information you know controlling the
narrative is the most important
thing to them that's more important than controlling the money or the banks or
the the laws or anything
it's like controlling the narrative controlling how people think what the the
kind of like the range
the overton window of allowable opinion or what you know and that's and you see
it all the time you see
they spaz out when people are just outside of the realm of allowable opinion
and even if you think
about like the way think about the way our government's set up we're like okay
the government there's like
a a a group of you know services that the government has a monopoly on and they
had a monopoly on the
schools uh the post office you know like even it's like wherever the
information is coming from the media
the universities you know these are always the things that governments get
involved in and then all
of a sudden there's a revolution and now the um you know the the public square
is facebook and twitter
and these social media so now these people are in control for the first time of
this so of course
and and what really happened was after donald trump won in 2016 they really
started cracking
down on them because they realized the guy who wasn't supposed to win won and
he did it by utilizing
social media and going around the the corporate media and going around the
political machine just to talk
right to voters that really shook them up and so yeah they hauled zuckerberg
and and dorsey and all
of them before congress they threatened the out of them i'm sure he's right
that they were on the
phone cursing and screaming at him and putting all types of pressure so fine if
zuckerberg i would be
much more sympathetic if zuckerberg had come out on rogan's podcast this time
and been like listen i just i've
i've under the weight of this pressure i gave in right and i became like a a
tool for the regime to
censor people but i don't want to do that anymore and so now i'm committing to
this i'd be like yes
yeah he's a hero but the way he kind of like yada yadas over like anyway the
government wanted
to do this stuff i was like nah man i'm not gonna do that i'm cool right rogan
you're like yeah not
exactly like it almost seems sometimes the way he he almost seems like a doll
does he a little bit when
you're and i don't mean it in a bad way um i just mean it in an interesting way
i'm fascinated by the
guy i mean the guy i can't imagine what his life is like or what he's like as a
person um or what it's
like to talk with them i would love to have that opportunity but i am yeah i'm
just so curious as to like
the pressure if he feels it um you know they had that one moment where like
they had all those
families that had people had been uh solicited or whatever young people had
been caught by traffickers
or like um approached by traffickers or uh solicitation sexual can you bring
that up it was um
it was zuckerberg before congress watch the moment that meta ceo mark zuckerberg
apologized to the
families of victims during a hearing on online child safety that's what it was
national television would
you like now to apologize to the victims who have been harmed pictures would
you like to apologize for
what you've done to these good people
have suffered and this is why we invested so much and are going to continue
doing these
streaming efforts to uh to make sure that no one has to go through the types of
things that your
families have had to suffer wow okay that's good i think it just seems like a
robot doing it like that
wasn't great that wasn't a great mo that's why i wonder does he feel it seems
something like he
doesn't have a lot of feel in him yeah yeah listen that's yeah to apologize i
don't even exactly
understand what they were like they're i think a lot of like parents of kids
who got trafficked or
something like that and i'll have to look into that yeah but that also shouldn't
be done like an apology
like that shouldn't be done with reporters flashing i agree all this i also
cannot stand i'm sorry but i just
hate the grandstanding of politicians and congress like like i think zuckerberg's
like response to
that should have been like you preside over the biggest war machine in the
history of the world
so if you want to talk about apologizing to innocent people who have got you
got your work cut out for
you you focus on your apologies but i would love to invite like any of these
parents if they want to
sit down in a private room after that we can have a long conversation about
this i agree and then like give a
real moment or like you know you can't someone like loses their kid or their
kids or tortured or
something it can't just be like uh i'm sorry that happened and we are working
hard to make sure it
doesn't happen in the future you want to sit down and be like hey that's a
great tell me your story
don't even hear from me let me hear from you you tell me your story and then i'll
try to like empathize
with what you've gone through but yeah that's a great point they shouldn't they
shouldn't put him on
the spot to do it right there because that wasn't really helpful um because
they're not looking for
a sincere apology they're looking for a political stunt to be like i got zuckerberg
to admit right
that he had you know is wrong the families always get wheeled out for that kind
of stuff and i also
don't like that the air is always like it's always a question of what you
should be censoring and like
listen i'm sure we would probably agree right like if there are people trying
to traffic kids or
something like that like yes okay you'd want to kick those accounts off or
report them to the police or
whatever but it's always congress like talking about how dangerous the freedom
that people have is on
your site oh it's so dangerous that people can communicate and people you got
to clamp down on
this right and it's like personally i'm much what is it the old i think it's a
thomas jefferson quote or
maybe i'm getting that wrong actually it's not jefferson but whatever the quote
was like i uh it might
have been hamilton but it was like i'd rather deal with the inconveniences of
too much liberty than those
associated with too little of it you know it's like i'd rather it's always like
they're always warning
you about the problems of too much freedom oh everyone can communicate that
means people are
going to come get your kids i'm like i'm sure that is there is that concern and
like you know i got
little kids i'm i'm concerned about that stuff but i also kind of feel like
okay i'll handle making
sure my kids don't you know what i mean get you know taken advantage of on the
internet and how
about the government get the hell out of the way so we can tell the truth yeah
it was thomas jefferson
see i should be sure of myself i would rather be exposed to the inconveniences
attending too much
attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it yeah i
agree why not err on that
side of it um yeah facebook has had issues i mean remember when they had there
was a thing where they
had there was like these kenyans or something see if you can look that up there
was they were looking
up information they were using people in africa to look up they were the fact
checkers or whatever
and i think it was a lawsuit facebook content moderators in kenya call the work
torture their
lawsuit may ripple worldwide i'm not even sure what happened with this what
when was this oh it's 2023 okay
on the verge of tears nathan nkunzimana recall i admire you for trying oh thank
you yeah on the verge of
tears nathan nkunzimana recalled watching a video of a child being molested and
another of a woman being
killed eight hours a day his job is a content moderator for a facebook contract
required him to look at
horrors so the world wouldn't have to now nkunzimana is among nearly 200 former
employees in kenya who are
suing facebook it's so wild um where work let me see the group was employed at
the social media giants
outsourced hub for content moderation in kenya's capital of nairobi where
workers screen posts videos
messages and other content from users across africa removing any illegal or
harmful material that breaches
its community standards and terms of service can you even imagine having to
moderate the stuff in africa
someone's job is actually to watch a child being molested and then be like nope
that video can't go up on facebook
this is bad
the moderator from several and that was i shouldn't that wasn't a fun time to
joke i'm sorry that wasn't funny
um and i love kenya i've been to mombasa i love puerto rico
puerto rico i love it i've been there oh no do not touch that girl yeah you're
okay so far you're okay
so far nope you are banned the moderators from several african countries are
seeking 1.6 billion
compensation fund oh that's a lot of money after alleging poor working
conditions including
insufficient mental health support and low pay wow wonder what happened to that
lawsuit if you find out
that something happened let me know but they've had issues over there and i'll
say this um well that's
not really it but uh i can't imagine i can't imagine having to be actual person
doing that work but
that's what it comes down to you're basically having to moderate the entire
world of communication you've
taken on that responsibility
Thank you.

Is Mark Zuckerberg Serious About Changing Meta?

let's talk about zuckerberg a little bit because he just had that kind of about
face sort of on
and facebook they just had that kind of about face on rogan where he was
talking about um
where's that clip that clip yeah right here where he kind of uh says the biden
administration would
call meta to scream and curse it then to censor true information on their
platforms this is what
zuckerberg said right what do you say play it real quick a little bit of it
these people from
the biden administration would call up our team and like scream at them and
curse and it's like these
documents are it's all kind of out there did you record any of those phone
calls i don't no i don't
think i don't think we've but but i think i want to listen i mean their emails
the emails are published
it's all it's all kind of out there and um and they're like and basically it
just got to this
point where we were like no we're not gonna we're not gonna take down things
that are true okay that's
ridiculous um they want us to take down this meme of leonard yeah what do you
think about this to
me that i just don't know if i buy i don't because facebook didn't do the best
job of you know they
had issues over the years with the hunter biden thing right with russia stuff
where they wouldn't
let people say this is like they really chose to decide what was misinformation
so it
just seems weird that suddenly people are calling and screaming i left like the
simple facts and you're
like is this like it seemed like now you're trying to seem like like that wasn't
happening the whole
time and you weren't listening to it before type of vibe yeah it's a very like
convenient retelling of
history yes for zuckerberg to go um so the government was saying we have to
censor these
things that are true and we were like no we're not going to do that okay what
really happened is the
government said you're going to censor these things that are true and he said
yes sir and did it for
eight years okay and then at the end of these eight years when trump wins a
dominant victory
and now the guy who you kicked off of facebook is now president again and now
the whole culture's
turned against you and he's threatening to like you know like look into you he's
coming and there's a
lot of like pretty quasi-illegal stuff that was done so now you said okay we're
not going to do this
again while joe biden is literally on his hands and knees pooping his pants
yeah on the way out with
terrible numbers and donald trump's coming in popular again so okay yes so for
him to spin that as the
government said we should do this thing and we said no that's ridiculous okay
that's not exactly what
happened it seemed like he's just now back here trying to slurp back onto
humanity now if you that's a
slurp yeah yeah i i i agree um now there's and this is why joe you know remains
like the biggest
show is because he just gets these moments but if you the last time he was on
rogan's podcast was one
of the most interesting admissions and it was before he had done this 180 and
turned around but when joe
asked him about the hunter biden thing and he goes so so like the story with
the hunter biden laptop
how did you guys handle that and zuckerberg said the fbi came to us and told us
where there's about
to be a big russian dump so they must have known that this laptop was about to
come out and they went
to facebook told them preemptively it's russian disinformation and that's why
they censored the
whole thing and that is like that admission is like blatant election
interference by the fbi against the
sitting president which makes it that even that much worse because like in some
on some level like
if the fbi or the cia or someone like that was like interfering in an election
you'd already be
like okay that's crazy illegal unethical uh you know unconstitutional like we
don't have a democracy
if we have three letter agencies interfering in elections right however you'd
assume at least
they were doing it on the side of the president who they work for not against
the president who they
work for now we're in a level of like treason like you're working against the
commander-in-chief who
you're supposed to say sir yes sir to and follow his rules you know i mean okay
you if you're at the
fbi you're in the under the justice department but still like the president is
that this was in this
was in trump was in office yeah this is the one i'm referring to yes this one
this is when or i don't
know when the podcast was but he's talking about the hunter biden story which
was october of 2020.
so right before the election when trump is still in office okay let's play a
little bit of that
how do you guys handle things when they're a big news item that's controversial
like there was a lot
of attention on twitter during the election because of the hunter biden laptop
story the new york post
yeah so you guys censored that as well so we took a different path than twitter
um i mean basically the
background here is the fbi i think basically came to us some some folks on our
team and was like hey
just so you know like you should be on high alert there was the we we thought
there was a lot of
russian propaganda in the 2016 election we have it on notice that basically
there's about to be some
kind of dump of of um uh that's similar to that so just be vigilant so our
protocol is different from
twitter's what twitter did is they said you can't share this at all um we didn't
do that what we do
is we have um if something's reported to us as potentially um misinformation
important misinformation
we we also have this third-party fact-checking program because we don't want to
be deciding what's
true and false and for the i think it was five or seven days when it was
basically being um being
determined whether it was false um the distribution on facebook was decreased
but people were still
allowed to share it so you could still share it you could still consume it don't
say the distribution
is decreased okay how does that work so saying that they had some effect on it
though yeah well he goes
on to say that it was a meaningful uh impact that turning down the signal had
on it but what's
interesting is that he blatantly says that it was the fbi who came to them and
like told them that this
very true story which was a real scandal um that was an october surprise that
you know very clearly could
have moved the needle in the election they suppressed that for one reason only
and that's because they
wanted biden to win and not trump to win and zuckerberg played a big role in
that not as big
i guess as uh twitter um at the old oh yeah dorsey admitted it yeah yeah and i
look i do think to some
degree these guys are under duress from the government i mean they're
threatened and all types of pressure
is put on them to go along with the censorship stuff and to be you're basically
become communication in the
universe like you are like if everybody had to talk in like a hallway you're
the hallway you know you were
yeah well and and if you think about like even just the you know if you think
about the how much
government cares about controlling the narrative you know one of the things
that's really interesting from
the the more recent clip that the one we played first here um you know he says
that they were really
upset about a meme oh yeah it was leonardo dicaprio dicaprio meme like they
were really upset about that
which literally said isn't that fascinating in a way that they are so
threatened by like you making
a joke about their but if you like zoom out right and think about it it's like
governments always
insist on controlling monopolizing information you know controlling the
narrative is the most important
thing to them that's more important than controlling the money or the banks or
the the laws or anything
it's like controlling the narrative controlling how people think what the the
kind of like the range
the overton window of allowable opinion or what you know and that's and you see
it all the time you see
they spaz out when people are just outside of the realm of allowable opinion
and even if you think
about like the way think about the way our government's set up we're like okay
the government there's like
a a a group of you know services that the government has a monopoly on and they
had a monopoly on the
schools uh the post office you know like even it's like wherever the
information is coming from the media
the universities you know these are always the things that governments get
involved in and then all
of a sudden there's a revolution and now the um you know the the public square
is facebook and twitter
and these social media so now these people are in control for the first time of
this so of course
and and what really happened was after donald trump won in 2016 they really
started cracking
down on them because they realized the guy who wasn't supposed to win won and
he did it by utilizing
social media and going around the the corporate media and going around the
political machine just to talk
right to voters that really shook them up and so yeah they hauled zuckerberg
and and dorsey and all
of them before congress they threatened the out of them i'm sure he's right
that they were on the
phone cursing and screaming at him and putting all types of pressure so fine if
zuckerberg i would be
much more sympathetic if zuckerberg had come out on rogan's podcast this time
and been like listen i just i've
i've under the weight of this pressure i gave in right and i became like a a
tool for the regime to
censor people but i don't want to do that anymore and so now i'm committing to
this i'd be like yes
yeah he's a hero but the way he kind of like yada yadas over like anyway the
government wanted
to do this stuff i was like nah man i'm not gonna do that i'm cool right rogan
you're like yeah not
exactly like it almost seems sometimes the way he he almost seems like a doll
does he a little bit when
you're and i don't mean it in a bad way um i just mean it in an interesting way
i'm fascinated by the
guy i mean the guy i can't imagine what his life is like or what he's like as a
person um or what it's
like to talk with them i would love to have that opportunity but i am yeah i'm
just so curious as to like
the pressure if he feels it um you know they had that one moment where like
they had all those
families that had people had been uh solicited or whatever young people had
been caught by traffickers
or like um approached by traffickers or uh solicitation sexual can you bring
that up it was um
it was zuckerberg before congress watch the moment that meta ceo mark zuckerberg
apologized to the
families of victims during a hearing on online child safety that's what it was
national television would
you like now to apologize to the victims who have been harmed pictures would
you like to apologize for
what you've done to these good people
have suffered and this is why we invested so much and are going to continue
doing these
streaming efforts to uh to make sure that no one has to go through the types of
things that your
families have had to suffer wow okay that's good i think it just seems like a
robot doing it like that
wasn't great that wasn't a great mo that's why i wonder does he feel it seems
something like he
doesn't have a lot of feel in him yeah yeah listen that's yeah to apologize i
don't even exactly
understand what they were like they're i think a lot of like parents of kids
who got trafficked or
something like that and i'll have to look into that yeah but that also shouldn't
be done like an apology
like that shouldn't be done with reporters flashing i agree all this i also
cannot stand i'm sorry but i just
hate the grandstanding of politicians and congress like like i think zuckerberg's
like response to
that should have been like you preside over the biggest war machine in the
history of the world
so if you want to talk about apologizing to innocent people who have got you
got your work cut out for
you you f