Todd Mcgreevy & Zach Vorhies on The Jason Bermas Show - 01 June 2024

On today's show, Todd McGreevy takes a post-COVID19 look back at 2009's outbreak of H1N1 (swine flu) in context of the current fearmongering over H5N1 (bird flu) in an election year. Later, Zach Vorhies shares the good news of how his recent in-person testimony at a hearing was successful in convincing the Texas Senate Committee on State Affairs to unanimously vote in favor of authorizing subpoenas to big tech firms.

GUEST 1 OVERVIEW: Todd McGreevy is Founder and Chief Editor of River Cities’ Reader, an independent newspaper based in the Quad Cities area. His commentary and work reflect a diverse range of interests, from art and history to politics and media. You can follow him on X at @toddmcgreevy and visit his website at: rcreader.com

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Zach Vorhies is best-known for being a whistleblower who leaked documents from Google. He worked as a Senior Software Engineer at YouTube/Google for over 8 years. In 2019, he disclosed over 950 pages of Google’s internal documents to the Department of Justice and Project Veritas, highlighting Google’s censorship mechanisms. These documents reportedly detailed Google’s “Machine Learning Fairness” project and other censorship-related activities. He has since co-written a book about it titled, "Google Leaks: A Whistleblower's Exposé of Big Tech Censorship" (2021, Skyhorse Publishing). Zach has also been an outspoken critic of the official COVID-19 pandemic narrative. You can find him on X at @Perpetualmaniac and visit his website at: zachvorhies.com