first to william la jeunesse live in the rnc meeting in dana point, california. william? voting is almost done. they re on virginia. a few more dates to go. that s it. the voting is taking place over my shoulder. each state and territory has three votes. those will be counted and observers to witness, if you will, the counting of the ballots. they re put in three piles like clubs, spades and hearts. bam, bam, bam. the magic number is 85, which is half the number of members here. ronna mcdaniel has been for six years the chair woman of the party. she was expected to win this thing going away. that is not the case. it s going to be closer than anybody expected. harmeet dylan is a trial lawyer from california. she has put on the full court press in about the last month and repealed off of a lot of those voters, as few as a dozen last night separated the two candidates. very different in terms of their strategy going forward. ronna mcdaniel, there was a conference, for members
may favor republicans after the old twitter regime did not only support democrats but censored and suppressed information and news detrimental to the party and shadow banning conservatives. what this shows us is how powerful social media has become. you have a mccarthy and musk meeting and how important it is to political candidates. we can see politicians do less and less truly challenging interviews at all, the basement strategy deployed more and more. the candidate can get a message out without being questioned or pressed in any real way. musk wants to keep twitter as a level playing field and not the dumpster fire that we saw under the trump era and the jack dorsey era. trace: you mentioned dave ruben s tweet. he got an inside look at the hood. he said what is really crazy now having seen under the hood is that jack dorsey repeatedly said they don t shadow ban.
in safety, and jack dorsey and others. now, there was a concerted effort then to cover it all up. writing on twitter s official blog in july 2018, it was insisted that we do not shadow ban and we certainly don t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology. over time this twitter executive became more indignant. one of the biggest problems with censorship is the fact you push people underground and you don t know what s going on. and this is something i worry about. laura: come on. the only thing that kept that woman up at night was the possibility that conservative voices would somehow slip through the corporate censors. the first name mentioned on this twitter blacklist released tonight was someone the angle first introduced to the national audience during covid.
their way of getting around saying shadow banning. because you know, from the twitter files last night we learned they used this tool to actively suppress not just accounts but ideas from trending, and you had dan, charlie, the files revealed had been visibly filtered. but directly contradicts how previous management always maintained no shadow banning happened. i want to share a tweet from founder jack dorsey, dug back to 2018 and he said this. we don t shadow ban, and we certainly don t shadow ban based on political viewpoints. what last night s drop reveals, though, twitter was deciding what important discussions were allowed wide reach. these decisions were happening at the highest level. the platform actually having a secret council, including dorsey. one filtered individuals was a
twitter files. james comer will be here on congress s plans to investigate the social media giant. but griff jenkins has had a busy 24 hours, and twitter executives not telling the truth when they went to congress to say shadow banning? perish the thought. no such thing. john, that is the question. now, bari weiss says twitter executives used visibility filtering, or vf, what we consider shadow banning. she says in one of her tweets that, just a touch to get to the full screen, twitter denied it does such things. in 2018, 2 said they do not shadow ban, and don t shadow ban based on political viewpoints or ideology and jack dorsey was asked about it on the hill, remember? are you censoring people? no.