BREAKING: Emails show CDC policed COVID speech on Facebook.

What do the confidential emails obtained by Reason's Robby Soave reveal about the relationship between Facebook and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)? The social media giant's moderators were "in constant contact with the CDC, and routinely asked government health officials to vet claims relating to the virus, mitigation efforts such as masks, and vaccines," writes Soave.

Join Soave and Reason's Nick Gillespie and Zach Weissmueller for a live discussion of the documents this Thursday at 1 p.m. Eastern. Watch and leave questions and comments on the YouTube video above or on Reason's Facebook page.

Show notes:

State of Missouri ex rel. Schmitt, et al. v. Biden, et al. - New Civil Liberties Alliance - https://nclalegal.org/state-of-missou...

Robby Soave’s publication of the CDC/Facebook emails at Reason.com - https://reason.com/2023/01/19/faceboo...

Facebook’s ban of the lab leak theory -
https://about.fb.com/news/2020/04/cov...

The Media's Lab Leak Debacle Shows Why Banning 'Misinformation' Is a Terrible Idea -
https://reason.com/2021/06/04/lab-lea...

“Protecting Speech from Government Interference Act” https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-c...

00:00 Robby's Scoop: The Facebook Files
14:31 Emails obtained by Reason
23:17 Government jawboning private entities
35:36 Traditional vs. social media
46:57 Misinformation mission creep
53:13 Policy and tech remedies to censorship
1:04:32 SCOTUS considers Section 230 challenges
1:11:33 Longstanding paranoia over media
1:20:31 Takeaways from the Facebook Files