It's a tactic to work around the Constitution. Instead of the government itself censoring, they just have compliant corporations do it for them.The White House has been actively involved in censorship of what they deem as mis-information on social media...Do you trust the government to make the right choices between false information and information they don't want you to see or trying to hide?...This sets a dangerous precedent, do you think they stop with Covid as an excuse?...Its likely they will find reasons to censor other topics they don't like being discussed and shared and call it mis-information...
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Critics slam the White House after Psaki reveals it's consulting with Facebook to 'flag misinformation'
Critics roundly condemned the White House after press secretary Jen Psaki revealed the Biden administration is working with Facebook to flag "problematic" posts that "spread disinformation" on COVID-19.
On Thursday, Psaki was asked a question regarding the Biden administration’s request for tech companies to be more "aggressive" when policing what they referred to as "misinformation." Psaki revealed that the White House is "in regular touch with social media platforms" to handle it.
"We are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff and also members of our COVID-19 team — given, as Dr. Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue, of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic," Psaki explained.
While referencing the team’s actions, Psaki also revealed that they are "flagging" posts on Facebook as part of their efforts.
"Within the Surgeon General's Office, we're flagging posts for Facebook that spread disinformation," Psaki said. "We're working with doctors and medical professionals to connect medical experts with people, who are popular with their audiences with accurate information and boost trusted content. So, we're helping get trusted content out there. We also created the COVID Community Corps to get factual information into the hands of local messengers."
Psaki's comments were met with fierce pushback online with some calling the actions as infringing on the First Amendment.
"Psaki says the White House has been flagging ‘problematic posts’ on Facebook they believe are misinformation about Wuhan coronavirus. Reminder: Fauci worked with Facebook to ban the lab leak theory, which is factual, for more than a year," Fox News contributor Katie Pavlich tweeted.
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