ght? Because if they ever reported anything negative about China they'd be kicked out anyway. So what is the point of having a US journalist? Any of them? Even one? Why would we even need one? They're not getting stories. They're not breaking any news. That's not going to happen. What's the point?

So they're kicking out our journalists. Big deal. And then it's reported almost nonchalantly that we somehow know about all these Chinese spies in our media structure. To which I say why aren't they gone now? Like why are we waiting for the end of today? Is it because we don't know exactly which ones are spies and which ones are just, you know, people born in China who are working over here? Is it because we can't tell? Maybe that's why.

Now let me say something else which I cannot source but I'll tell you it's obvious. All right, you want to know something that's true and obvious at this point? That some amount of the, let's say the unexplained behavior of your social media platforms is foreign spies. And so can I prove this? No. But I'm gonna make a statement of fact and I'm gonna do it with high confidence. But I don't have a source. I'm just saying that common sense and everything you know about the world will tell you this is true. And this is one of the benefits of studying economics, by the way. You know there's some things that you can predict to be true every time just because you know economics. You know economics will have an influence on people that's fairly predictable on average over time.

So for example in economics if somebody, if the same product were being sold for, you know, a hundred dollars here and dollars here, you don't have to be psychic to know that as long as people know that it's the same product that people will buy more of the cheap one, right? So there's just some things in economics that guarantee you're seeing the future as close as that can be guaranteed. Right? Nothing's 100 percent. And in the world it's just very clear once you understand economics and psychology. Here's one of those cases.

If you were Russia or you were China or you were even one of our allies, name an ally, I won't pick favorites. And you could, and let's say it was possible, and you could put people who were loyal to your country but not the United States, if you could place them into jobs at the major social media platforms, you know, let's say you're Googles and you're YouTubes and you're Facebooks and your Twitter and your Instagrams, if you could do it, would you do it? Right? Any question about that? If they could do it wouldn't you all agree that they would? You know if we could put a spy in a major social media platform company in China, would we do it? Well obviously of course we would. If we could put an American spy into some important social entity or company or business in Russia, would we do it? Obviously we would. That's what we do.

If China could influence somebody who's already working at one of the platforms or longer-term like promote somebody, you know, help somebody's career until they get a job there, if China could put their own agents into the social media platform companies, would they do it? Do you have any question that they would do it? Well no, no, no, you don't have any question. Yeah, I see people mentioning different comfort countries. Yeah, so some countries are more active and more successful spying. So you know nobody would be surprised, you know, if Great Britain or Israel or, you know, even France or Germany or any of the big countries. So nobody should be surprised if any of the major countries are putting spies into any of the other major countries. So none of that should be a surprise.

So here's the thing. You know I've been saying from the beginning that I doubted that whatever was happening on Twitter that was hard to explain, that was either, you know, the most coincidental series of computer bugs or somebody's messing with us. Right? Those were the two possibilities. Because it was obvious something was happening. You could look at it and track it and write it down and you could see that things were happening to some follower accounts and likes were being unliked and stuff like that. And I had told you that in my opinion, unless I'm the worst judge of character in the world and I don't think I am, that Twitter management doesn't know what's going on. And my hypothesis is that foreign spies have embedded themselves or have access to the API or have access through apps. They have given control to your Twitter accounts. There might be 50 different ways they could do it. But I think some of the irregularities you're having, and I'll give you the, here's sort of the canary in the coal mine.

You know the problem I had with being unfollowed from Richard Grenell. So Ambassador Grenell of Germany, it was probably the most high-profile ambassador, wouldn't you say? I think he's probably the most high-profile ambassador. We all know him. Is there anybody who doesn't know the name of Richard Grenell? Probably not. There's probably not one of you watching this who hasn't heard his name now. Name another diplomat. Go name one other diplomat for any country, an American diplomat working anywhere. Can you name one? Probably not, right? So Richard Grenell, I think you'd agree, the most famous diplomat who also has a good reputation. People like him. And I looked at his Twitter followers and it's like 215,000 or something. I have twice as many Twitter followers as our most famous diplomat who is very active. He was far more famous than I am, far more active, and he has half as many Twitter followers.

Now a lot of people reported when I pointed out that I had been unfollowed from him, in other words I had followed him and then I wasn't anymore on two separate occasions that I know of. I checked it this morning and I'm still following him. And a bunch of other people said, hey, I asked people to check it and said, hey, it happened to me too. Happened to me too. So all kinds of people said they're positive t