I think we're seeing a Streisand effect. If Bari Weiss hadn't tried to suppress the episode, it wouldn't have received as much attention.

It does stand out that they interviewed 2 victims of CECOT. It shows that the people who were deported are just normal people.

CBS became owned by the Ellison Family in August 2025, Larry Ellison is a personal friend of Netanyahu and loyalist to Trump. The Ellison Family purchased Paramount/CBS so that they could make CBS more right wing and Zionist.