Guard Your Algorithm

Send us Fan MailA single AI-made Facebook post can spin up a fake “crisis,” rope thousands of people into outrage, and disappear before anyone posts a correction. We start there, because it’s the perfect doorway into what this show keeps circling back to: information warfare isn’t coming, it’s already here, and your social media algorithm is the battlefield.We walk through how engagement bait works, why we use a one-strike rule for obvious clickbait, and how quickly a convincing lie can travel when it’s tuned for emotion instead of truth. From that, we revisit the COVID era messaging that many listeners still can’t shake, the “safe and effective” certainty, the pressure campaigns, and the way mask and vaccine enforcement turned neighbors into enemies. We’re not interested in replaying slogans. We’re interested in incentives, accountability, and what happens when institutions demand trust while refusing scrutiny.Then we widen the lens to censorship and power: claims of White House pressure on Big Tech, content removals that happen without warning, and what it feels like when a platform can erase an entire library overnight. From elections and voting machines to Wisconsin’s USB-stick chaos, we ask what “secure” even means if procedures are fragile and oversight is selective. We also dig into reporting about FBI “defensive briefings,” the Foreign Influence Task Force, and allegations that politically damaging leads were packaged as “Russian disinformation.”We close with a hard look at government competence and spending, including the Treasury beneficial ownership rule change and eye-popping claims about IRS IT budgets dominated by contractors and licenses. If any of this hits a nerve, share the episode with someone who still thinks the problem is just “the other side,” then subscribe, leave a review, and tell us what story you want us to fact-check next.Support the showGet off Zero, the EASIEST WAY TO BUY BITCOIN #BTChttps://river.com/invite?r=Y6QR4HBWCQGhost Phones, Laptops and Tablets, Mark37 has it allhttps://Mark37.com/ref/live1776Thursday Night PRIVATE IGNITE presentation via ZoomRegister for our FREE Ignite webinar every Thursday at 4:30p PST 👉🏼 https://bit.ly/48vKR1Dwww.PeasantsPerspective.comwww.LeftBehindandWithout.orgwww.DollarsVoteLouder.comwww.politicalremodel.com