WEBVTT 00:01.140 --> 00:06.955 AI algorithms in social media and search engines have become the modern weapons used against any genuine 00:06.955 --> 00:10.666 source of information. How is something like this possible? 00:10.666 --> 00:16.945 Today, AI determines which content is visible—and which disappears into the digital abyss. 00:16.945 --> 00:25.598 AI algorithms determine the influence of every media outlet in the digital space—whether we want to admit it or not. 00:25.598 --> 00:32.944 During an internal training session for Kla.TV employees, Elias Sasek used simple images to illustrate the issue of so-called 00:32.944 --> 00:36.939 "shadow banning" and explained effective countermeasures. 00:36.939 --> 00:45.361 Take a look at the speech below and share it with independent media outlets and educational influencers. Why? 00:45.361 --> 00:51.586 At the very latest, the next time the ruling elite declares a state of emergency, all genuine information channels 00:51.586 --> 00:58.586 will once again be banned from YouTube, X, TikTok, and the like—just as they were during the COVID-19 dictatorship. 00:58.586 --> 01:05.073 Anyone who relies on their social media reach today and fails to establish independent channels of distribution 01:05.073 --> 01:10.070 will find themselves starting from scratch again precisely when information is needed most. 01:11.106 --> 01:15.894 We are in a battle between truth and lies; we are in a battle between clarity and 01:15.894 --> 01:19.124 deception—and where is this battle taking place? 01:19.124 --> 01:24.631 And the battlefield we navigate every day has, let's say, become primarily digital. 01:24.631 --> 01:31.256 Today, the entire information war is waged primarily in the digital realm; through the global Internet—the 01:31.256 --> 01:38.532 web—people are manipulated and, in a state of mass hypnosis, driven straight into digital delusion and enslavement. 01:38.532 --> 01:46.022 All the lies and propaganda outlets also operate primarily on the internet within their sphere of influence, which is 01:46.022 --> 01:53.174 why I will now limit my remarks to this digital space, even though there is much more to say beyond that. 01:53.174 --> 01:56.853 But we're in the midst of a battle for influence and reach. 01:56.853 --> 02:02.536 And in order to push through the goals of the global power elite, they are trying to limit 02:02.536 --> 02:05.246 our scope using ever-new methods and strategies. 02:05.246 --> 02:13.359 Every effort is being made to strip us of our influence and reach so that, if possible, we can no longer reach people. 02:13.359 --> 02:16.445 First of all: Where do we stand in this fight? 02:16.445 --> 02:22.806 The COVID-19 pandemic is still fresh in all of our minds; we went all out with Kla.tv, and our 02:22.806 --> 02:27.000 programming and reach on Kla.tv took a huge leap forward. 02:27.000 --> 02:32.811 Before, our videos regularly got hundreds of thousands of views; suddenly, they were regularly getting millions of views. 02:32.811 --> 02:38.605 And something else crucial happened: It suddenly felt as though we were no longer alone in the struggle for awareness. 02:38.605 --> 02:42.919 Hundreds of new educational channels sprang up like mushrooms. 02:42.919 --> 02:47.242 New independent media outlets sprang up one after another; we rode the wave of the COVID-19 years, 02:47.242 --> 02:49.782 navigating between hacker attacks and tremendous growth. 02:49.782 --> 02:56.530 Our videos went viral, Dad’s speeches about the nations went viral—we were on the front lines of awareness-raising, 02:56.530 --> 03:03.373 and our reach extended to YouTube, Telegram, Facebook, and TikTok, among other well-known social media channels. 03:03.373 --> 03:10.330 Some of our productions even made it into the trends—that is, the top lists—on social media during that time, and then, in the midst 03:10.330 --> 03:13.797 of the COVID-19 pandemic, the massive wave of censorship hit. 03:13.797 --> 03:19.069 All activists had to fear for their channels; countless independent and alternative media outlets lost their 03:19.069 --> 03:22.092 channels—for example, on YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook. 03:22.092 --> 03:27.946 We, too, fought strategically and were able to retain or recapture the vast majority of the channels. 03:27.946 --> 03:35.666 Then, right after the pandemic, in early 2023, the AI era began, and with it, something fundamental changed. 03:35.666 --> 03:43.508 Suddenly, people were allowed to say whatever they wanted again—no strikes, no channel suspensions, no warnings—nothing. 03:43.508 --> 03:47.538 The major social media founders even apologized for their censorship efforts. 03:47.538 --> 03:56.940 Facebook founder Zuckerberg suddenly started talking about renowned Enlightenment thinkers on the podcast. 03:56.940 --> 04:00.102 The two governments forced him to censor videos, and with a straight face, he promised that he 04:00.102 --> 04:02.105 now knew better and would do better in the future. 04:02.105 --> 04:06.799 As a sign of his remorse, he also immediately got rid of the fact-checkers on Facebook. 04:06.799 --> 04:12.100 Then there's "freedom extremism." Elon Musk, a champion of free speech, bought the evil Twitter and renamed it. 04:12.100 --> 04:16.096 Finally, you can say whatever you want on X (aka Twitter) again. 04:16.096 --> 04:20.008 It is meant to be a safe haven for freedom of expression. 04:20.008 --> 04:27.295 Then YouTube followed suit and released suspended channels from their digital prison, as if suddenly everything were back to 04:27.295 --> 04:31.136 normal—but appearances were deceiving. What actually happened? 04:31.136 --> 04:35.415 Since we don't all have tech geeks among us today, I'll try to explain this insidious 04:35.415 --> 04:38.961 strategy using examples that everyone can understand. 04:38.961 --> 04:44.730 Imagine you're going to a trade show and want to showcase your products to a global audience. 04:44.730 --> 04:48.460 Mr. Google welcomes you very warmly. He praises your products and flatters you, telling 04:48.460 --> 04:50.579 you how valuable you are to the trade show. 04:50.579 --> 04:55.147 He keeps saying how glad he is that you're here. He's warm and friendly. 04:55.147 --> 04:59.520 But instead of giving you a booth in the exhibition hall, you'll have to set up your sales 04:59.520 --> 05:02.473 booth in the boiler room of the convention center. 05:02.473 --> 05:06.721 In the exhibition hall above you, there's a huge crowd and a lot of jostling. 05:06.721 --> 05:09.562 A heating technician comes by your place every now and then. 05:09.562 --> 05:12.961 You're not going to miss the chance to at least show him your products. 05:12.961 --> 05:17.559 In the end, you go home and are glad that you were at least able to convince the heating technician and 05:17.559 --> 05:20.248 the cleaning lady of the quality of your products. 05:20.248 --> 05:23.806 As you're leaving, you ask Mr. Google why he put you up in the broom closet. 05:23.806 --> 05:28.031 He just rambles on about free competition and an open culture, citing his trade show 05:28.031 --> 05:30.527 rules and insisting that's the way it has to be. 05:30.527 --> 05:36.967 At the end, he thanks you very, very warmly for being there and says you should definitely come back next year. 05:36.967 --> 05:42.414 Or you go to the post office: You have 137,000 letters with you; you've been collecting the 05:42.414 --> 05:45.690 addresses and affixing stamps to them for years. 05:45.690 --> 05:49.257 Since there are so many letters, you'll go straight to the post office with the wheelbarrow. 05:49.257 --> 05:51.727 The postal worker on YouTube says very kindly: 05:51.727 --> 05:53.978 "Wow, you have a lot of letters to mail." 05:53.978 --> 05:57.622 "So you've been working hard—you're doing a great job!" 05:57.622 --> 06:05.125 By the way, to carry that many letters, you'd have to haul 100 to 150 full wheelbarrows. You'd be running back and forth all day. 06:05.125 --> 06:10.248 A week later, you find out that the mail carrier delivered only 800 letters. 06:10.248 --> 06:16.278 When you ask him where the remaining 136,200 letters are, he rambles on about how the terms and conditions 06:16.278 --> 06:19.882 state that they aren't obligated to deliver all the letters. 06:19.882 --> 06:26.286 Under certain circumstances, such as severe weather or other precipitation, they might deliver only part of the mail or even 06:26.286 --> 06:30.135 skip delivery altogether in favor of other important letters. 06:30.135 --> 06:35.922 But I should feel free to come back anytime and bring even more letters. After all, the post office is there for everyone. 06:35.922 --> 06:38.302 Or you can book a hall in a huge theater. 06:38.302 --> 06:41.897 One last example. Mr. Telegram greets you warmly. 06:41.897 --> 06:44.225 You can perform your show on stage. 06:44.225 --> 06:47.360 But hardly anyone is making their way into the hall. 06:47.360 --> 06:50.370 Strangely enough, only a few guests come in through the back door. 06:50.370 --> 06:58.159 In the end, it turns out that the main door had been barricaded by bodyguards. Mr. Telegram regrets the situation. 06:58.159 --> 07:04.746 But rest assured that at any given time, as many people as come in through the back entrance can also attend your performances. 07:04.746 --> 07:09.242 He really is against censorship. And you should come back anytime. 07:09.242 --> 07:11.353 He praises your performance in the highest terms. 07:11.353 --> 07:17.609 And he says he'll really stand up for you. But the front door remains locked. 07:17.609 --> 07:21.097 Dear friends, these examples are anything but exaggerated. 07:21.097 --> 07:27.618 The same is true of shadow banning—or, in German, reach throttling—by artificial intelligence, which has been going 07:27.618 --> 07:30.703 on for two years and is becoming increasingly insidious. 07:30.703 --> 07:38.402 Thanks to the sophisticated AI algorithms—which are hostile to transparency and nip any real investigative journalism in the 07:38.402 --> 07:42.640 bud—we at Google have long been relegated to the broom closet. 07:42.640 --> 07:51.040 We have 137,000 subscribers on YouTube, but each video only gets a little over 1,000 views. 07:51.040 --> 07:53.189 You won't find us in any Telegram search. 07:53.189 --> 07:56.453 So people are now only tuning in to our shows through the back door. 07:56.453 --> 07:59.057 All social media managers are friendly and nice. 07:59.057 --> 08:02.842 No one complains about the topics we cover. Everyone goes on and on about freedom of speech. 08:02.842 --> 08:05.397 The EU, too, no longer needs a censorship ministry. 08:05.397 --> 08:13.549 All of this work is now handled by algorithms and their AI, which only allow through what fits the prescribed narrative—and do so in 08:13.549 --> 08:18.134 just the right measure to prevent any resistance from forming. 08:18.134 --> 08:24.872 So much for the problem. I hope you understood the example. 08:30.965 --> 08:37.310 This fact really pushed me to the brink of despair at the end of last year and eroded my faith. 08:37.310 --> 08:44.208 I was close to giving up. Because by the time you finally figure out the trick, it already feels like it's too late. 08:44.208 --> 08:47.027 And now you might be wondering: What's up with Elias? 08:47.027 --> 08:49.855 Our shows on Kla.TV still get a lot of views. 08:49.855 --> 08:55.040 Time and again, a video gets over 100,000 views. Or sometimes even more. 08:55.040 --> 08:59.281 Many independent media outlets would be licking their lips at these numbers. And I realize that. 08:59.281 --> 09:03.751 And I am grateful for everything we are able to accomplish, and for the fact that we are still able and allowed to do so. 09:03.751 --> 09:10.498 I am also convinced that the night has not yet come when no one can work anymore, as it says in John 9:4. 09:10.498 --> 09:14.435 How are these view counts being calculated right now? 09:14.435 --> 09:23.679 Whenever a show goes viral, it’s not because it showed up somewhere in a recommendation system on social media, YouTube, or 09:23.679 --> 09:28.695 Telegram—as it used to—but because people shared it directly. 09:28.695 --> 09:38.816 Whenever people we contact directly forward and share our messages, it can lead to what’s known as a “snowball effect.” 09:38.816 --> 09:44.619 All programs that are simply broadcast and not rebroadcast remain at a low level. 09:44.619 --> 09:48.682 No matter how important the issue may be. 09:48.682 --> 09:54.705 I'd like to share with you four practical steps that we're focusing on in our outreach efforts. 09:54.705 --> 09:59.943 Each of us can help make these simple goals a reality. 09:59.943 --> 10:04.959 So, as a first step, I would mention direct delivery to subscribers. 10:04.959 --> 10:12.081 We’re structuring our digital distribution system so that we can deliver directly to as many people as possible, without 10:12.081 --> 10:19.115 having to rely on social media or quietly hope that the social media dictators will eventually take pity on us. 10:19.115 --> 10:26.736 The more people we can reach directly, the more people we can inspire to help spread the word about our pressing issues or to 10:26.736 --> 10:33.137 join Strategy 2+ to become active participants and take advantage of the many opportunities we offer—such 10:33.137 --> 10:36.576 as attending events and so on. So that’s a key factor. 10:36.576 --> 10:41.814 That's why, in practical terms, we've introduced two specific changes. 10:41.814 --> 10:46.110 First: We've launched a new platform called Substack. 10:46.110 --> 10:54.166 You can access it via the link Substack.kla.tv, or by clicking the orange “Social” button 10:54.166 --> 10:58.445 in the top-right corner of the Kla.TV website. 10:58.445 --> 11:06.605 It's listed there. We upload all episodes in German to this platform every day. More languages may be added in the future. 11:06.605 --> 11:14.917 And through Substack, we currently send daily emails to over 40,000 subscribers with updates on the 11:14.917 --> 11:19.560 latest episodes, and that can spark a viral sensation. 11:19.560 --> 11:23.620 So here we have a direct delivery service that we plan to expand significantly. 11:23.620 --> 11:29.296 How about setting a new goal of getting 500,000 subscribers to sign up for direct delivery? 11:29.296 --> 11:32.843 That would be our next milestone. Are you in? 11:38.255 --> 11:44.475 With Substack, we're ahead of the curve in yet another important area. 11:44.475 --> 11:49.722 Surveys show that very few people still watch traditional television today. 11:49.722 --> 11:54.319 Most people watch TV on their smart TVs or projectors using streaming services like 11:54.319 --> 11:57.447 Disney+, Netflix, Prime, or whatever they're called. 11:57.447 --> 12:02.065 And thanks to Substack, you can finally watch Kla.TV on your smart TV. 12:02.065 --> 12:06.514 Through our Substack channel, Kla.TV is becoming a true streaming service. 12:06.514 --> 12:13.456 And we've added a new red button in the upper right corner of the Kla.TV website that says "TV." 12:13.456 --> 12:19.532 If you click on it, you'll be taken directly to instructions on how to set everything up so you 12:19.532 --> 12:23.569 can watch Kla.TV right on your TV or projector. 12:23.569 --> 12:27.264 Exactly—those people we're notifying are in our hands. 12:27.264 --> 12:33.707 We didn't develop Substack from scratch, but we manage our subscribers ourselves and 12:33.707 --> 12:37.565 aren't dependent on a social media platform. 12:37.565 --> 12:43.332 It's high time everyone uninstalled their streaming services—which just dumb them down anyway—and 12:43.332 --> 12:51.074 instead watched Kla.TV every evening via the Substack app to get fired up for the battle for enlightenment. 12:51.074 --> 13:04.961 Yes. That's a… Yes, in my view, with this feature, Kla.TV is in no way behind other TV stations, because 13:04.961 --> 13:11.778 this is the newest and most modern way to watch TV. 13:11.778 --> 13:14.011 How can you help with this strategy? 13:14.011 --> 13:20.024 If you click the green "Newsletter" button in the upper right corner of the Kla.TV website, you'll see an 13:20.024 --> 13:24.160 overview of all the newsletters and direct deliveries we offer. 13:24.160 --> 13:29.135 Please feel free to share this widely and sign people up for the newsletter there as well. 13:29.135 --> 13:32.761 There's a pretty good method: right at the very bottom of the website 13:32.761 --> 13:39.477 You can recommend the newsletter with a single click, and then the recipients just have to click a button to sign up. 13:39.477 --> 13:43.425 Then there's a second measure for direct delivery—that's brand new. 13:43.425 --> 13:50.053 We achieved this breakthrough just this week because we can now send so-called push notifications 13:50.053 --> 13:54.024 directly to our Kla.TV viewers via their web browsers. 13:54.024 --> 14:00.455 This means that, from time to time, a message like this pops up on Kla.TV for new visitors: 14:00.455 --> 14:02.406 It will say: “Would you like us to notify you when a new video is posted?” 14:02.406 --> 14:10.733 If the visitor clicks “Yes,” a notification will pop up right on their computer or cell phone whenever we 14:10.733 --> 14:18.395 publish a new episode, and we can message them right away to say, “There’s something new!” 14:18.395 --> 14:24.850 That, too, is a step I've wanted to take for years, and this week I finally managed it.