You're listening to the Michael Sherman Show. The Michael Sherber Show All right, everybody, welcome to another episode of the Michael Sherman Show.

I'm your host, Michael Sherman.

We're here live before a studio audience.

If this is a studio at the Skeptics Conference, hey, here we go.

Yay!

My guest today is Michael Schoenberger, he's returning champion.

He was on a few months ago,

investigative journalist,

broken many major stories on crime and drug

policy, homelessness, Amazon deforestation,

rising climate resilience, growing eco-anxiety and so on now most recently on

free speech and censorship the Twitter files you've probably heard of he's been

involved in that he just got back from testifying before Congress he flew hereC. just a few days ago. You can watch

this online if you go to public. He's posted the video. I watched the whole video on my

workout yesterday, so many questions on that. And so let's get started with that, I say,

is a good place to start.

Let's assume I'm sitting in for the other OK boomers

who don't really understand what social media is you know what's this Twitter thing

is that what tick talk I don't know I understand it why is this important what do you

mean free speech censorship it's just social media I just read the New York Times. That's it. Why does this matter?

All right, well, so social media is a radical innovation in the history of not just the internet but of printing press.

So if you start with past upheaval's, you know, we have the printing press that is a major

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