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Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
- ▶ 39:55 David Sacks I do think that having open source as an option always then ensures that even if the market does consolidate, that you do have an alternative and it's an alternative that's more fully within your control as opposed to a large corporation…
Elon Musk: OpenAI Betrayal, His Future at Tesla, and the Next Big Thing — Grokipedia
- ▶ 35:35 David Sacks So you released the Twitter files, nothing like that had ever been done before where you just, you actually let investigative reporters go through 2 times in the scene
Charlie Kirk Murder, Assassination Culture in America, Jimmy Kimmel Suspended, Ellison Media Empire
- ▶ 41:46 Jason Calacanis And we sat here on this program for many years talking about Biden censoring COVID talk and Biden censoring social media and having the Twitter files, a direct line in there to cancel this.
Senator Exposes America’s Biggest Censorship Scandal · Joe Lonsdale
- ▶ 1:24 Joe Lonsdale The discovery uncovered some amazing things that led to the Twitter files and a lot else.
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 5:36 David Sacks This was the government side of the Twitter files, and the discovery he brought when married with the Twitter files that Elon released really paint a picture 2 times in the scene
Senator Eric Schmitt: Exposing the Biggest Censorship Scandal in US History
- ▶ 2:02 David Sacks And I remember talking about, before I even knew you, on the all-in pod when we were dealing with censorship and talking about that issue, the Twitter files. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:11 David Sacks We now know from the Twitter files was advocating to censor the Hunter Biden laptop story, even though he should have known based on his time at the FBI, that the laptop was authentic. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:37 David Sacks Well, during the Twitter files, we found out there was, um, Yoel Roth, who you mentioned was the head of trust and safety, and definitely not a conservative.
Trump's market impact: Bitcoin, M&A, IPOs + transition picks; Polymarket CEO raided by FBI
- ▶ 20:54 David Sacks Congress should investigate or continue investigating what went wrong there, and what exactly is the involvement of the intelligence community and the deep state in the censorship requests that we saw exposed by the Twitter files, remember?
Trump wins! How it happened and what's next
- ▶ 1:16:00 David Sacks I said, we should do a Twitter files for the whole federal government. 5 times in the scene
Marc & Ben on AI Policy, Safety, Censorship & Unexpected Risks
- ▶ 38:20 Marc Andreessen Um, and my, my take on this is heavily influenced by what I have experienced, you know, up close over the last, you know, 15 years with sort of the, the, the censorship wars, um, you know, the, the so-called trust and safety wars for, for…
Ep13. Silicon Valley’s Political 180, META AI, COVID Postmortem | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner · Bg2 Pod
- ▶ 49:37 Bill Gurley I, I think everything from the origin of COVID to the responsiveness to COVID, for whatever reason, we were in this weird place, and some of this came out in the, in the Twitter files, where 2 times in the scene
Presidential Debate Reaction, Biden Hot Swap?, Tech unemployment, OpenAI considers for-profit & more
- ▶ 52:52 David Sacks And we saw this in the Twitter files where
E173: Google buying HubSpot? FTX depositors not made whole, AI job fears, Ukraine joining NATO
- ▶ 23:11 David Sacks Clint Watts was involved in the Twitter files. 2 times in the scene
E150: Israel/Gaza escalating or not? EU censorship regime, Penn donors revolt, GLP-1 hype cycle
- ▶ 1:02:49 David Sacks What the Twitter file showed, okay, is that we had 80 FBI agents being the conduit for takedown requests to Twitter and presumably other social networks.
All-In Summit: Ro Khanna on China, political reform, major challenges facing the US and more
- ▶ 7:58 David Sacks And, um, and then there was, there was also the, the, uh, the episode in the Twitter files where you were encouraging the old Twitter management to realize that the censorship they were doing was backfiring.
In conversation with Chris Christie
- ▶ 1:13:02 David Sacks One of the revelations that came out during the Twitter files is that we had 80 FBI agents monitoring Americans' social media accounts and submitting takedown requests to Twitter.
E121: Macro update, Fed hike, CRE debt bubble, Balaji's Bitcoin bet, TikTok's endgame & more
- ▶ 1:18:09 David Sacks This was all revealed in the Twitter files.
Amjad Masad: How I Founded Replit; Zuck's Famous Saying; Will TikTok be banned? | E987 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 47:36 Amjad Masad I mean, I look, I'm a little conflicted on that because, uh, the Twitter files just showed that there's incredible, uh, U S government sort of, uh, collusion with, uh, U S social media companies as well.
E116: Toxic out-of-control trains, regulators, and AI
- ▶ 15:19 Jason Calacanis Which we, we don't have to get into every single one of them, but after COVID, some of the Twitter files, etc, now the default position of the public is, I'm being lied to, they're trying to cover this stuff up, we need to get out there…
- ▶ 23:46 David Sacks We're seeing it with the Twitter files. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 29:23 David Sacks And to not be discriminated against based on their viewpoint, which is what's happening right now as a Twitter file shows abundantly.
- ▶ 1:15:41 David Sacks I think if the Twitter files have shown us anything, it's that big tech in general has not been motivated by consumer choice, or at least yes, delighting consumers is definitely one of the things they're out to do.
E109: 2022 Bestie Awards Live from Twitter HQ
- ▶ 1:16:00 Jason Calacanis It's, it's kind of a bummer that people are being sanctioned or shadow banned, and they don't know it.
- ▶ 1:21:05 Jason Calacanis Hey, um, the Twitter files. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:06:08 David Sacks We talked about it with Schellenberger and Elon, this whole series of revelations known as the Twitter files. 2 times in the scene
E107: The Twitter Files Parts 1-2: shadow banning, story suppression, interference & more
- ▶ 3:42 Jason Calacanis Twitter files have dropped. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:34 David Sacks And what the Twitter files show is that is exactly what they were doing.
- ▶ 33:10 David Sacks Let's bring the first batch of Twitter files into the conversation, the one that Matt Taibbi exposed. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 38:30 David Sacks And then somehow he has put himself in the position to be intermediating the Twitter files.
- ▶ 46:45 David Sacks Taibbi, in the, you, you, you go back to the Twitter files, the first drop.