Doctor Mike

he reframed that deliberately and intentionally lied and said that we had censored 22 million of them.

And this lie was entered into the congressional record by Matt Taibbi and Michael Schellenberger.

And Schellenberger went on Rogan to say this and to say that I, because I had interned for the CIA when I was a kid during college, went on and said that I was like, I had risen to the highest levels of the CIA.

They had gotten me my job at Stanford.

And I had been like... This is Putin-esque, Russiagate level.

It was surreal.

And, you know, and I was like, he goes on about me for like three minutes there.

And I was just like, did this man just tell 12 million people that I rose to the highest levels of the CIA and all this other stuff?

And then he just like goes down this like...

personal stuff bunny trail like well I'm sure she's a good mom but and I was like whoa so I sent a note and I was like Jamie just for the uh just for the record like none of that is I mean aside from the good mom like that's true but but the rest of that was all bullshit um and I uh you know I got a note back but like he didn't invite me on to to like give a counterpoint and

Honestly, by that point, this was around the time that Breitbart, that Stephen Miller sued me.

And one of the things that happens, it turns out, when you are sued is that your lawyers tell you, shut up and say nothing.

Um, and so since Stephen Miller was, uh, America first legal was suing me personally by name in addition to Stanford and a couple of my other colleagues alleging that we had censored 20 million tweets as agents of the government and all this other insane stuff.

Um, like I couldn't, what was, I can't sit for two hours like and talk about an open pending, uh,

court case which by the way two years later is still going because this is a really great way it turns out to shut somebody up which is to file a vexatious lawsuit you know in a jurisdiction with a friendly judge that doesn't immediately toss it and to just like bury you in paper and proceedings and tie you up for two years so i cannot talk to you about the uh sorry i cannot talk about the specifics of the pending litigation is the sentence that you are supposed to memorize yeah

So the university decided that doing election research was a liability, that studying American elections was too much of a liability for American researchers and that we were no longer going to do it.

And so, you know, the so our contracts were not renewed.

And that was one year ago this month.

It was kind of like the canary in the coal mine.

I wrote a New York Times op ed about it.