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- 'Sup, you beautiful bastards?
I hope you've had a fantastic Monday.
Welcome back to the Philip De Franco Show, buckle up.
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otherwise, it will punch you in the throat.
And let's just jump into it.
And the first thing we're gonna talk about today
is the story and situation around Post Malone,
which I feel like is bigger than the story around one man.
I think it's something
that touches on anyone in the spotlight
and the relationship and a sense of ownership
that people have, whether it be the fans
or the internet, in general.
So over the past week,
we've had a large number of people
sharing clips saying they're incredibly concerned
about the 24-year old's behavior.
This including videos of him stumbling on stage,
intensely rolling his eyes as he sings.
Right now we have a lot of fans
that are protective, concerned,
people who are still reeling
from the drug-related deaths
of people like Mac Miller and Lil Peep.
I've seen a number of people with these viral videos,
saying that Post Malone's behavior
signaled a potential substance abuse problem,
though I understand, while these theories were going viral,
they were blowing up, you still had
a number of fans arguing
that this is just how Post Malone performs,
others just feeling uneasy
about all of the public speculation,
in general, even if the intentions were good.
You know the push back to that
was it's better to be safe than sorry.
And as the noise around this situation
got louder, we saw Post Malone's father,
Rich Post, eventually taking to social media
to shut down the rumors.
Retweeting a video of his son playing the guitar
and singing, adding, "I'm getting tired of it y'all.
What does this video say?
Coherently playing the guitar while simultaneously singing?
Seems a lot harder than accidental slips
and stage theatrics."
And then continuing, "I don't want to come across
as dismissive to those of you
who have expressed concerns about Austin.
Your sincerity and kindness regarding him is certainly
heartwarming and appreciated."
We also ended up seeing Post Malone
himself address this during a performance
in Memphis, Tennessee.
- I'm not on drugs and I feel the best
I've ever fucking felt in my life.
(crowd cheers)
And that's why I can bust my ass for these shows
and fucking fall on the floor and do all that fun shit, man.
(crowd cheers)
But for anybody that's concerned here,
I appreciate the love and the support,
but I feel fucking fantastic and I'm not doing drugs.
(crowd cheers)
- But he did also acknowledge that there was a dark time
in his life where he would turn to drugs
but once again assuring fans that he was okay now.
- You know, there was a time in my life,
a very dark time in my life where, you know,
I would try and, you know, find alternate escapes
from reality and do drugs.
But now I just want everybody to know in this building,
that I'm fucking okay and I'm the happiest
I've ever fucking been.
So thank you so much ladies and gentlemen.
(crowd cheering)
- And following that, it calmed down the worries
of many fans, but also even a number of people saying
maybe he just hasn't accepted the problem yet.
Once again, that's speculation, and it brings up that debate
of is this helpful or is actually something that's hurting?
Now, I don't have the answer for that.
But what I will say is looking at the concern
that there is around artists and the conversation happening
around it most of the time,
it does somewhat bring a smile to my face,
and it makes me feel like the conversation
around mental health has greatly improved
just over the past decade alone.
And obviously, I think that's somewhat connect
with the losses we've seen in recent years.
But then notoriously, people like Amy Winehouse,
someone who, I mean, looking back really didn't get
that public empathy that a lot of artists get today.
Someone who was very publicly spiraling
and instead of just an army of hands reaching out to help,
she was kind of villainized, right?
So as far as where the right middle ground is,
as far as public help and public reaction, I don't know.
But that's also kind of the beauty of the show.
That's the story.
I'm just one person, and I pass the question off to you.
I'd love to know your thoughts on this one.
And then let's talk about the news
and the conversation around misinformation
and manipulated media.
So last month, Twitter rolled out its policy
for addressing synthetic and manipulated media,
which said that users could not,
"Deceptively share synthetic or manipulated media
that are likely to cause harm," with Twitter also saying
that it would label this kind of content,
and that policy actually went into effect
last week on March 5.
And ultimately, that brought us to yesterday
where Twitter seemed to apply the manipulated media label
for the first time to a video
that was posted by Trump's social media director
Dan Scavino and retweeted by Trump himself.
And the video in question was a 13-second clip
of Joe Biden speaking at a campaign rally on Saturday
that looked like this.
- During this primary for my campaign
that's about negative attacks
and the one about what we're for
because we cannot
get re-elect, we cannot win this re-election,
excuse me, we can only re-elect Donald Trump.
- So you watch that and you potentially go, did Joe Biden
just endorse Donald Trump?
What just happened?
Well, it turns out that that clip was actually cut
before Biden finished his sentence.
And in the original video that we found, we see him say this
- We can only re-elect Donald Trump, if in fact,
we get engaged in this circular firing squad here.
It's gotta be a positive campaign, so join us.
- And so, basically, what appears that he was saying
was Trump can only be re-elected if we keep infighting.
So, obviously, a very different situation
and message from the first video
that was edited, looking at the situation, right?
Twitter's first official implementation of their new policy,
it was met with a fair share of problem,
because while it has been hit
with a manipulated media label,
Twitter didn't determine the post
violated its guidelines until about 18 hours after.
And according to reports by that point,
it had already been viewed more than 5 million times
and retweeted more than 20,000.
Also, it appeared that
there were technical problems as well.
According to reports, it was a glitch
with the manipulated media label itself,
with the Twitter spokesperson saying
that the manipulated tag
wasn't showing in the tweet details and adding
that users who clicked into the tweet itself
may not be able to see the label,
but that it was visible in the timeline,
which I imagine is how most people see tweets.
Now, one of the other reasons this was
a big deal is not only
because the content was labeled,
but also because this possibly sets a precedent
that it shows that Twitter is not scared to crackdown
on Trump and his team.
And this wasn't just a tweet and a video
from Joe Blow, this was coming from people with connections
to the administration.
Also, Twitter is not alone here,
we saw Facebook respond to the video of Biden as well.
Facebook did not initially label
or do anything to the post