Hey everybody. A weird, kind of scary thing has been happening to me in the last week. Someone started sending me messages threatening me and my family. I had to get the FBI involved. I know lots of journalists have dealt with this. This is my first time. I hope it's the last. I'm being assured everything will be okay, but I'm not going to front. It's been unnerving and distracting. So we're taking a little breather this week. Also, it'll just give us some time to catch up on the news. Question everything. Maybe a show that is often about the news, but we're not a news show. We're always

trying to bring you deeper insights and stories and conversations, and these often take a little

time to bake. And right now, there is so much in the oven on the journalism media tech beat

that our show focuses on. Instead of chasing every little thing, even if the things aren't little at all,

if they're super important, we're trying to get our bearings and glean some meaning about what's

happening right now. We want to figure out what we can say or dig up that's additive,

whether it's the never-ending developments in the Jeffrey Epstein saga, or Jeff Bezos'

his gutting of the Washington Post, or everything that's happening in Minnesota, including the arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort for reporting at an anti-ice protest there.

The story we've actually been heads down on for a while that you're going to hear next week, the next two weeks actually, it's a special series, is about another journalist who was arrested for reporting at an anti-ice protest last year.

His name is Mario Guevara.

He's an immigrant from El Salvador who was locked up after covering a no king's protest in the summer and incarcerated by the Trump administration for his journalism for more than 100 days, despite the fact that

Mario was a Trump supporter.

I think he's a very intelligent man.

I think he is extremely clever for business.

I also think that he's very charismatic. A lot of people don't like him,

but I think he's very charismatic.

There's also a lot happening with one of my current obsessions, Section 230, the 1996 law

that protects internet platforms like Facebook, Google, and TikTok, and others from getting sued.

The law says those companies can't be held liable for content that other users post on their sites.

Those of you who listen a lot will know that we've been digging into the many tentacled impacts of this law, Section 230,

on the ways we all communicate and get information and why I think the law should change.

The 30th anniversary of Section 230's enactment was actually on Sunday, and I did an interview with

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