Name: Reuters FIRED him for exposing BLM | Big Pod #10
Uploaded: 2022-08-11T19:01:47+00:00
Duration: 1 h 14 min 40 s
Description: Zac Kriegman, a former data scientist for Thomson Reuters, joined me on the podcast to talk about his firing from one of the most influential new organizations in the US for sharing data that discredi

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Zac Kriegman, a former data scientist for Thomson Reuters, joined me on the podcast to talk about his firing from one of the most influential new organizations in the US for sharing data that discredited the BLM narrative.

He not only found that the claims that police are more likely to shoot black people are not true but that the movement is actually hurting low-income black communities

Zac’s Substack: https://substack.com/profile/27261592-zac-kriegman

The letter that got Zac fired: https://kriegman.substack.com/p/post-leading-to-termination-blm-falsehoods

Zac’s letter on Bari Weiss’ Substack (where he explains how he was fired): https://kriegman.substack.com/p/i-criticized-blm-then-i-was-fired

Jump to:
00:00 Intro
1:01 How big is Reuters?
3:03 Zac's expertise
08:37 How Reuters pushed the BLM narrative
16:23 Fired for 'whitesplaining'
22:07 Zac's lawsuit against Reuters
25:03 The consequences
27:09 The numbers
32:24 Conservative vs. liberal values
33:02 Affirmative action is hurting black communities
43:03 BLM push in the media
47:37 Police bias
50:24 Black culture
55:43 Illogical BLM outrage
58: 11 Media bias
1:13:19 Thoughts on Zac's case.