Meta Threw a Party for a Right-Wing Influencer Who Wants to "Save the West" [View all]
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Meta Threw a Party for a Right-Wing Influencer Who Wants to Save the West - Mother Jones
Last week, conservative influencer Isabel Brown celebrated 100 episodes of her podcast, where she sings the praises of motherhood, frets about the dangers of open borders, and asks rhetorical questions about homosexuality and what she frequently terms radical Islam.
To celebrate, Brown had a party thrown by the Daily Wire, the right-wing site that hosts her podcast. The event was also sponsored by Meta, the mega-company that owns Facebook, Instagram, and Threads, among other sites. The decorations included an archway that read Seeking Truth to Save The West, underneath the words Presented by Meta and the companys logo. An Instagram post from Brown celebrating the party thanked my amazing team at the Daily Wire and our friends at Meta for throwing me the cutest save the west party right in the heart of dc, and reiterated that the tech company had made this special celebration possible.
Meta hasnt trumpeted their sponsorship of the party, but the Daily Wire, which advertises heavily across Facebook and Instagram, did, including in a Facebook ad that offered a video recap of the event and in an Instagram post that included the hashtag #MetaPartner.
As Media Matters pointed out in 2023, the Daily Wire has been a major advertiser on Meta, and has used those ads to promote right-wing causesfor instance, spending some $5.7 million amplifying anti-trans content from its media personalities and other anti-trans rhetoric. Those ads, the watchdog group wrote at the time, often seemed to directly contravene Metas policies on hate speech.