On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “11th Hour,” Staff Writer for The New Yorker, MSNBC Political Contributor, and Columbia Journalism School Dean Jelani Cobb responded to a question on how the Biden administration pressuring social media platforms to suppress certain speech on coronavirus differs from what happened with Jimmy Kimmel by saying that “there’s always been a kind of public health exception.”

Host Stephanie Ruhle asked, “I’m dying to know, in journalism classrooms, right? The students who are saying to you, but what about during COVID, what about when, Mark Zuckerberg has said that the Biden administration pressured them on what they could have on their platforms regarding COVID and what people were allowed to say? Is there a — when they say that, when your students say that to y

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