Hello listeners,

Rav and Jay are busy at work examining, discussing, and breaking down the landmark Missouri v. Biden ruling. Yesterday, they spent an hour together recording a long-form podcast breaking down the origins, ramifications, and impact of the case for Illusion of Consensus subscribers.

The episode is available to all on Spotify, Apple, and the Substack app. Transcript highlights are available below. Stay tuned for more exciting content: collaborative releases with Matt Taibbi, Alex Berenson, and Michael Shellenberger!

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Highlighted quote from Dr. Jay on the federal government threatening social media companies if they don’t follow their censorious orders:

So what we found, for instance, was that these government officials were directly threatening these social media companies if they didn't comply....

The implicit message was really clear.

If you don't listen to us, if you don't censor the way we're telling you to censor, I mean, that's a nice company you have there. Wouldn't it be terrible if something were to happen to it? The threat was, I mean, it was just clear from every single one of those those emails that these companies, even though they were they sometimes look like they're cooperating, they were operating under a threat, a threat by the federal government that if they didn't comply, that they would be regulated out of existence. And around the same time, you had President Biden going around saying things like, Facebook is killing people by permitting misinformation.

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