Liberty Roundtable Podcast
Radio Show Hour 2 – 09/05/2024
* Kamala’s New Campaign ‘Faith’ Director “Progressive” Rev. Jennifer Butler, Blasts America As ‘Cult, Bloodthirsty, Imperial Beast’ – Mike Miller, RedState.com
* ‘Nobody wants to become the next Bud Light’: Another major company Coors Light announces it’s ditching everything woke – ‘What you should take away from this is that these companies are actually terrified of you, and know that the threat of you turning your back on them is real’ – Brandon Morse, RedState.com
* TikTok Expands Its US Election Resources – The company is an increasingly popular source of political news – It’s adding more content about how elections work and media literacy – TikTok is pushing to improve information about the upcoming US presidential election on the app, The company will expand a landing page on how elections work and why they can be trusted – NYT.
* US Seizes Domains to Prevent Russia Election Interference Justice Department takes over 32 websites, charges RT employees – Newser.com
* “As of noon today, we’ve seized those sites, rendered them inoperable, and made clear to the world what they are: Russian attempts to interfere in our elections and influence our society,” FBI Director Christopher Wray said.
* The influence campaigns, which are informally called “Doppelganger” by US officials, use sites with web addresses slightly different from those of legitimate US news outlets and fills them with pro-Russian content. The affidavit says the Russian campaign also hired worldwide influencers, bought ads on social media, and created fake social media profiles posing as Americans to spread the propaganda, per Axios .
* Who do you trust more FBI Director Wray or Russia Today? – RT.com
* Trump Media Stock Price Drops 74% From Peak as Campaign Heats Up – NYT.
The stock price of Truth Social has often moved in tandem with investor perception of his standing in the presidential race.
* Shares of Trump’s social media company have fallen so much that his onetime $6B stake is now worth about $2B.
* Mr. Trump is the single largest shareholder of Trump Media, the parent company of Truth Social, owning 115 million shares a roughly 60% stake.
Trump Media is losing tens of millions of dollars each quarter and Truth Social is taking in meager advertising revenues.
* The Global Showdown Over Free Speech – Jeffrey Tucker,