On this week’s The Purpose Roundtable, editors Matt Welch, Katherine Mangu-Ward, Nick Gillespie, and Peter Suderman mirror on the failed coverage choices which have exacerbated the L.A. wildfire disaster, in addition to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s announcement that the corporate is ditching third-party truth checking on Fb.
01:54—L.A. wildfires and failed coverage
28:06—Weekly listener query
37:36—Zuckerberg declares the corporate nixes third-party truth checking
47:06—This week’s cultural suggestions
Talked about on this podcast:
“California’s Fireplace Disaster Is Largely a Results of Unhealthy Authorities Insurance policies,” by J.D. Tuccille
“Looting Is Unhealthy. So Are Curfews,” by Jack Nicastro
“What’s Fallacious With a Non-public Firefighter?” by Liz Wolfe
“Los Angeles Zoning Legal guidelines Pushed Folks and Houses Towards Fireplace-Inclined Areas,” by Jack Nicastro
“Fires Incinerated the Facade of California Governing Competence,” by Matt Welch
“Hell Out West,” by Liz Wolfe
“A Failed State,” by Liz Wolfe
“Burning Los Angeles,” by Nick Gillespie
“California Rules Forestall Insurers From Precisely Pricing Wildfire Danger, so Now They’re Fleeing the State,” by Ronald Bailey
“Why is the paperwork and purple tape there within the first place?” by Nick Gillespie
“Zuck Finds His Backbone,” by Liz Wolfe
“Mark Zuckerberg Was Proper To Fireplace Fb’s Rogue Truth-Checkers,” by Robby Soave
“Fb’s New Free Speech Coverage Reveals Enterprise Getting Again to Enterprise,” by J.D. Tuccille
“An Pressing Assembly of the Truth-Examine Legion of Doom,” by Robby Soave
“Let’s Cease Speaking about Free Speech and Begin Defending It,” by Nick Gillespie
“Why Fb ‘Welcomes’ Regulation, by Todd Krainin,” Nick Gillespie, and Jim Epstein
“Mark Zuckerberg: ‘I Imagine We Want a Extra Lively Position for Governments and Regulators,’” by Nick Gillespie
“TikTok Took a Beating on the Supreme Courtroom,” by Robby Soave
“Trump Dodged My Query Concerning the Federal Debt,” by Nick Gillespie
“Dad and mom, Not the Authorities, Ought to Make IVF Choices,” by Ronald Bailey
“Breeder Reactionaries: The ‘feminist’ battle on reproductive applied sciences,” by Wendy McElroy
“The Brutalist Is Nice American Cinema,” by Peter Suderman
Occasion:
Purpose Speakeasy: Bryan Caplan and David Bier, January 21, 2025
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Audio manufacturing by Ian Keyser
Assistant manufacturing by Hunt Beaty
Music: “Angeline,” by The Brothers Steve
- Video Editor: Ian Keyser
- Producer: Hunt Beaty
