Like the previous announcement this week Press secretary Jen Psaki’s text message about how the White House plans to review the so-called “misinformation” of the COVID vaccine is not scary enough note At a press conference on Thursday, the Biden administration was “marking problematic [COVID] Facebook posts” are even worse.
At today’s press conference, Fox News reporter Peter Dusey was the first to ask Psaki to clarify the position of the Biden administrator and correctly point out that what the White House was doing was actually “surveilling” private citizens, which made her distraught. During the communication process, Psaki responded to Doocy’s sharp questions by making equivalents between the White House’s interaction with the press team and their communication with social media platforms. He obviously did not understand the White House’s obligation to communicate with the media and its obligation to communicate with the media. There are differences between. They searched private citizens’ social media accounts for alleged misinformation.
Similarly back and forth, Psaki and Doocy played the COVID stigma game, which shows that people should be more worried about COVID “misinformation” on social media that allegedly cause people to die, rather than the federal government’s fraternal fashion targeting ordinary citizens on a large scale. In other words, she justified the Biden administration’s stance of cooperating with social media companies to censor private citizens by claiming that all of this is to save lives.
However, in the middle to the end of their exchange, Dussie pushed Psaki to a desperate situation, pointing out that last year Dr. Fauci said some things that he did not pay attention to, such as the need to wear a mask. Will the White House flag old Facebook posts that reference Fauci for FB to delete them? He asked her. Psaki’s answer, as you will see below, is the perfect setting for Doocy, which provides a deeper explanation of how science sometimes develops, and what was flagged as misinformation on Facebook months or even a year ago is now considered Is reasonable and can be published (for example, guesses about the origin of COVID). “Are you worried that what you are trying to block or delete will one day become [accurate]? He asked her. She acquiesced to the answer of “responsibility to save lives” instead of answering this question.
Rather than continuing to interrupt what was said between the two people piecemeal, here is the complete transcript, and the following is the video:
Dusi: “Speaking of misinformation and yesterday’s announcement, how long has the government been monitoring people’s Facebook profiles for vaccine misinformation?”
Psaki: “Well, this is a rather complicated and inaccurate question, I will refute…”
Dusi: “What if it’s not accurate?”
Psaki: “Well, Peter, first of all, as you know, we are often in contact with a series of media [Doocy says something intelligible in the background] Because we often keep in touch with social media platforms. This is public information, and people share information online. It’s like you are reporting information on the news channel. “
Dusi: “But-well, so you have these 12 people on the list, 12 people. Do they know someone in the surgeon’s office is viewing their profile?”
Psaki: “I’m happy to let you cite its source. There is no secret list. I will tell you that these people share information on Facebook’s public platform, and this information is inaccurate. Our biggest concern here, frankly, I think your biggest concern should be how many people across the country have died because they received wrong information because they did not get vaccinated. [A lot of people] Being affected by the error message. “
Dusi: “However, I think that for many people on Facebook, the biggest worry is that now this is Big Brother watching you.”
Psaki: “They are more worried about this than people across the country who have died due to an epidemic of misinformation spreading on social media platforms? I think this is unlikely. If you have data to support it, I would be happy to discuss it.”
Dusi: “Well, about the things on Facebook, I watched this morning. There is a video of Dr. Fauci before someone was vaccinated in 2020, where he said there is no reason to walk around wearing a mask. So, will the government contact Facebook and ask They delete it?”
Psaki: “Well, first of all, I think Dr. Fauci himself said…Science is evolving, information is evolving, and we provide this information to the American people in an open way. I have never seen any data showing that vaccines cause infertility. This is irresponsible information.”
[Crosstalk as other reporters try to chime in as Doocy fights to get in a final question]
Dusi: “Regarding the development of science, Facebook used to prevent people from publishing information that COVID may have originated from the laboratory. This president now admits that this is a possibility. So are you worried that the content you are trying to block or delete will one day become [accurate]? “
Psaki: “We won’t take anything. We don’t block anything. Facebook and any private sector company will decide what information should be included on their platform. Our view is that there is information that prevents people from being vaccinated, and as a result people are dying. For public health affairs, we have the responsibility to raise this issue. We are all responsible for the government, media, platforms, and public messengers to provide accurate information.”
Have you noticed how she used the term “public platform” to describe Facebook? In the coming weeks, this will become the focus of debate among DC lawmakers.
Watch:
Peter Doocy has just destroyed the White House’s call to censor “false information” on live television.
Psaki didn’t see this coming.
Watch the entire video. pic.twitter.com/ITPrMfdPFW
-Benny (@bennyjohnson) July 16, 2021
At another moment in the briefing, Psaki Make things worse By suggesting that if a person is banned on one platform, then all social media platforms should be completely banned, as if the White House should even recommend this, let alone participate.
As I pointed out yesterday, Doocy has an impressive record of getting Psaki to make such a key admission.I can’t count the number of times he did this, but we have recorded many of them Here.
