White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said they're 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,' which riled up critics
* White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said they're 'flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation' about COVID-19
* This riled up critics, including reporter Glenn Greenwald, who ripped the White House for censoring dissenting voices in an eight-tweet thread * He said the president shouldn't be allowed to flag content that he considers 'problematic'
* The 'union of corporate and state power (is) one of the classic hallmarks of fascism,' Greenwald tweeted
* Psaki's comments came the same day US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said health misinformation is 'a serious threat to public health'
* Psaki criticized Facebook for not working fast enough to remove 'harmful, violative posts' and ban the sources of the posts
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said they're 'flagging problematic posts' on Facebook 'that spread disinformation' about the COVID-19 vaccine and the pandemic, which sent critics into a frenzy.
Psaki's comments during Thursday's press briefing after the US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy's said health misinformation is 'a serious threat to public health.'
During her comments, Psaki said the White House has increased disinformation tracking and is working with Facebook and popular influencers who can get 'accurate information' out to the public.
Among the critics who lashed out against the White House on Twitter and other social media outlets was journalist Glenn Greenwald, who said the 'union of corporate and state power (is) one of the classic hallmarks of fascism.'
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Glenn is a pompous guy who believes only he has the absolute truth. It is small wonder he departed (in a huff) from the site he cofounded.
There is a distinction between censorship and calling misleading information that costs lives false information! We have in our democracy the FDA and other govt entities whose job it is to ensure accuracy and truth in health matters.
That stuff you bought that said on its packaging it could fix your high blood pressure and your heart valve issue and your diabetes. Hey! a free country and so they should or can say that with no rebuttal from professionals?
'Corporate Fascism' by any other name. Completely an abrogation of the 1st amendment and of the Section 230 regs.
And just days after Trump files a class action vs. the tech oligarchs. Fortuitous would be the word. And a combination of hubris, incompetence and megalomania on the part of the Biden regime. Tyrants do what tyrants do.
(and Fred, please try to focus on the topic at hand)
Stolen election.
Dictatorship
That's not what a democratic government does, especially not in America
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck...I agree, the boarded up windows in the Democrat election centres should have been a dead giveaway
How much longer of this charade? It's tyranny. They are the tyrants. We've got rope and the World would rejoice if these tyrants were gone and new free and fair elections are held.
PS leftist fanatic Fred in full on damage control mode lol
She reminds me of Baghdad Bob
Remember that guy?
Us troops were advancing and decimating the Iraqi forces and Baghdad Bob lied through his teeth declaring everything is fine in front of international TV crews in Baghdad.. and he kept lying and some people believed him
Then at the last interview you saw explosions in the background and air sirens going...
That's the left.
They'll end the same way.
They believe their own lies until the moment we are about to hang them for crimes against humanity and the stolen election.
The military should make a move soon though, people around the World want these "Democrat" tyrants gone and punished hard and the longer this goes on the more severe the calls for punishment will get.
Fred sees a post critical of a Democrat and there he is Captain Liberal to the rescue. Or is Fred more like a toothless pitbull clamping down on your ankle and slobbering all over the place.
"There is a distinction between censorship and calling misleading information..."
The above statement is really rich coming form the dumbest amongst us. Fred, who cannot add, who cannot subtract, who has an accountant, is here to lecture us about science.
Try to debate Fred and he will resort to an article from liberal rag. Fred despite being ancient does not have the depth of experience to debate anything.
Fred will do things like use the argue from authority fallacy. He will quote Fauci. Fauci is recommending masks for 2 and 3 year olds. Fauci might still remember a few tid bits from when he went to med school during the Kennedy administration and might pick tidbits up at work, but the man knows virtually nothing about filters.
Any day now Fauci is going to recommend masks for premies in neo natal care.
Anyway Fred is on full frontal mental nudity, which means there is nothing to see.
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Fred sees a post critical of a Democrat and there he is Captain Liberal to the rescue. Or is Fred more like a toothless pitbull clamping down on your ankle and slobbering all over the place.
"There is a distinction between censorship and calling misleading information..."
The above statement is really rich coming form the dumbest amongst us. Fred, who cannot add, who cannot subtract, who has an accountant, is here to lecture us about science.
Try to debate Fred and he will resort to an article from liberal rag. Fred despite being ancient does not have the depth of experience to debate anything.
Fred will do things like use the argue from authority fallacy. He will quote Fauci. Fauci is recommending masks for 2 and 3 year olds. Fauci might still remember a few tid bits from when he went to med school during the Kennedy administration and might pick tidbits up at work, but the man knows virtually nothing about filters.
Any day now Fauci is going to recommend masks for premies in neo natal care.
Anyway Fred is on full frontal mental nudity, which means there is nothing to see.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki forcefully defended the Biden administration’s growing offensive on vaccine-related misinformation spreading on Facebook and other social media platforms.
“Our biggest concern, and frankly I think it should be your biggest concern, is the number of people who are dying around the country because they are getting misinformation that is leading them to not take a vaccine,” Psaki said during Friday's daily press briefing. “Young people, old people, kids, children … a lot of them are being impacted by misinformation.”
Psaki’s defense was in response to a question from Fox News’ Peter Doocy, who framed the Biden administration’s concern about bad actors online as “spying” on Americans’ social media usage.
“For how long has the administration been spying on people’s Facebook profiles looking for vaccine misinformation?” Doocy asked, referencing Psaki’s comments a day prior that roughly a dozen people on Facebook were responsible for the bulk of vaccine misinformation on the social network.
Psaki called the characterization “a loaded and inaccurate question.” She said the White House flagging concerning posts to platforms like Facebook is similar to outreach to news outlets when they take issue with particular coverage.
“This is publicly open information, people sharing information online, just as you are all reporting information on your news stations,” she said during a testy exchange in which the pair talked over one another at times.
Surgeon General Vivek Murthy on Thursday declared falsehoods and conspiracy theories proliferating online as an “urgent threat to public health” because of their effect on people’s willingness to get a Covid vaccine.
Murthy’s advisory set off a firestorm in some conservative-leaning circles where such misinformation has circulated and contributed to stubbornly low vaccination rates in certain regions. Top Republican lawmakers accused the Biden administration of being in cahoots with social media companies to censor speech.
Public health officials have sounded the alarm in recent weeks because the overwhelming number of people hospitalized and dying from Covid-19 now are unvaccinated. The White House decided to more aggressively respond to those who are discouraging vaccinations and create more pro-vaccine content, including spots featuring Gen Z pop star Olivia Rodrigo.
President Joe Biden took a shot at platforms including Facebook while leaving the White House on Friday afternoon.
"They’re killing people," he told reporters in response to a question about Facebook. "The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and they’re killing people.”
Facebook this week said it has taken down more than 18 million pieces of Covid-related misinformation, removed numerous accounts and promoted trustworthy information about vaccinations.
But social media companies have struggled with how much to crack down as information evolves. For instance, Facebook in May walked back a ban on posts claiming that Covid-19 originated in a lab after there was renewed debate about the theory.
The left is in panic mode and they should be for those who participated in the election theft will be hung, no way around it. And those who still enable these tyrants who now look and act more and more like the CCP or the Stasi in eastern Germany during the Russian occupation, will not be exempt of guilt.
If the military doesn't put an end to this soon and have new, fair and transparent elections, the people will lynch those tyrants in the office.. look at what they're doing. This is not normal behaviour
@ 4:33 Fred subjected us all to a lalapalooza of copying and pasting of some 13 paragraphs.
Fred has what? An 8th or 9th grade education in science. Do you think he remembers any of it? When Fred reads an article from some wingnut site, are you of the opinion that Fred could critically thinks and question the veracity of what he is reading with any accuracy what he is reading? I am not.
fred this fred that says mommy's little boy, still wetting diapers and wanting to be Big Man so calls another person "mean" names and thinks that makes him Mr Big...No: you are and remain just a little boy with flawed ego
Stay tuned for mid August
The guy, who wrote the novel "Fight Club", has a BS in journalism. Within a decade of graduating he wrote a novel, which a few years later became a hit movie, which you are unable to analyze or give a good critique.
You have a doctorate and ... no novel.
If your writing here is any indication of your skill, we can see why you have not written one.
Judging by the comments above from the regular anon cartel that feature on this blog; if I'm understanding this right... White House flags problematic reports. Yet when Trump did it because he was getting insulted by the journalistic barbs sent his way by Twitter/Facebook and attempted to shut them down for good, it was... ok?
HA. Do love observing the psychology of the political divides and how each one of you dopes who argue for the same thing depending on who is playing AWAY and who is defending at HOME. Football mentality at its finest, and less to do with intelligent political discourse.
654.. you're living a lie.. time for you to switch channels, my God
I have never lived in a trailer park. Truth be told trailer parks come in several different income levels from dirt poor to middle middle class (MMC).
If you want draw conclusions about people living in trailer parks you have to consider income level and how many times the police are called or not called.
Compare trailer parks to living in apartment complexes, Democrat control social housing, or neighborhoods where a house fire results in a perpetually empty lot.
All housing is like beer.
A BS in journalism. Worked 2 or 3 years as a journalist. Then worked as a mechanic. Blue collar work, grease monkey. Wrote a novel. comparing and contrasting the author to Jack London is interesting. Real lives leading to blockbusters.
Now about you false accusation. You bragged about writing a graphic novel at this website. How many graphic novels does it take to get up to the word count of a short story? 10? 50? 100?
You come to a popular website that other like and then pontificate like a medieval grandee
fred said...
Fred dropped by to see what you lads are up to!
Wow, superior snooty nose checking up on the children (or so he believes in his own mind where he is a super hero.)
It is not stalking when you keep coming to the same place at the same time during the same season.
The Place: Warnewsupdates
The time: from when you roll out of bed until you take your Ovaltine that your caretake gives you in the evening,.
The season: any political blogpost which might have the potential for Democrat to look bad. You do not post on military weapons or anything lie it.
It is hard to miss you. You are like a plus sized person, whose butt cheek smacks people in the face on both sides of the aisle as you squeeze down the aisle. Hard to miss.
Fred, if he exists, is around 90 years old and likely wears a bathrobe all day long while he watches CNN and wears his triple layered masks at home :))
Please let me critique your comment of 8:22
The Democrat governor of Pennsylvania had a mask in your own home rule.
Democrat Governor’s New Covid Rule: Masks Even In Your Own Home
Would Fred wear 3 masks? If Fred were not a hypocrite, he would at least wear two. But would he wear three. There is always the American 'moar' is better rule.
Dr. Fauci demonstrates how to wear 2 masks correctly on TODAY
Bathrobe?
Why not. He is at home after all.
Does Fred exist?
Sometimes I think that someone is using his persona. I have a hard time believing someone could be as slow as him.
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