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#394 w/ Jamie Kirchick "Hammer Time, Larry Craig 2024, TLDR SOTU"

The Fifth Column

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What Did the CDC Do?

There's always a censorship by proxy issue. What did the CDC do? What did public health apparatus do to actively lean on, breathe on social media companies? Let's not forget that Joe Biden, among many of the insane things that he has said, he said that Facebook and social media are killing people. The government announced under the search in general in July 2021 that they're going to have a whole of government look at combating misinformation. And what do you know? Right around that is when suddenly a whole bunch of people start getting kicked off of social media.

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