GET THE APPControlled Opposition: Who Can You Trust?
After a tense X Space between Candace Owens and Leah Files, Ryan asks how audiences can judge whom to trust in independent media.
They were going at it in a Space after Stew Peters' show. Candace Owens on one side, Leah on the other, and Leah flat out called Candace a shill for promoting an app on her show that is not private. Two of the biggest voices in this whole space, accusing each other of being exactly what everybody out here is worried about.
And that is the real story. Not who won the argument. The question underneath it: who can you trust?
Follow the money. That is always where it starts. A following is not just a following, it is an asset. It can be bought, built, boosted, and aimed. And the most effective control operation ever run does not silence the opposition. It owns the opposition. It gives you a hero to rally behind, a villain to hate, and it manages both sides of the fight so your energy never actually reaches the people running the show.
This is not theory. COINTELPRO is declassified American history. The FBI ran secret operations to infiltrate, disrupt, and steer movements from the inside, and they did it for decades before the paperwork ever saw daylight. You really think they stopped? The programs did not retire. They got modernized. The operations moved onto platforms, into algorithms, and into personalities with ring lights and follower counts.
Now look at it from where I sit. Since Charlie Kirk was shot, I have faced nonstop resistance. I have lost more than ten accounts. I have lost my monetization and my income probably six times since this happened. Every time I build something, something reaches in and strangles it. And I am a small voice compared to these people.
Then you look across the aisle and some of these voices never get touched. Leah says she has over 300,000 followers on TikTok. TikTok. A platform that deletes people like me for breathing wrong, and she is sitting on a third of a million followers telling the world who the shills are. Maybe she is exactly who she says she is. I am not handing down a verdict. I am asking the question nobody is supposed to ask: how does anybody get that big in this environment without somebody allowing it?
There is one man in this space I trust, and his name is Stew Peters. You know why? Because he looks like he has been terrorized. Because he has. You can see it on him. The people who have actually been through the fire carry it. The ones who glide to the top untouched, with their reach intact and their income never threatened, those are the ones I watch the closest.
So no, I am not going to tell you who to trust. I am telling you to watch who never gets deplatformed. Watch who never loses a dime. Watch whose accounts never die. And then ask yourself who that serves.
Trust is not a follower count. Trust is scars.