Apparently, the Biden White House did not know the cans of worms they opened when they made two major announcements last week, one of which was to reveal Their plan Review the so-called “misinformation” text messages of the COVID vaccine, the other is that they have a team in the surgeon’s office That is “Tag problem [COVID] Facebook posts” to review and possibly take action.
Since then, they have been asked questions about the latter by reporters, including Fox News White House reporter Peter Ducci, who last Friday Desperate Psaki Regarding the issue of Facebook flagging, by explaining more in-depth how science sometimes develops, and what was flagged as misinformation by Facebook last year is now considered 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 on Friday. She acquiesced in the answer “We all have the responsibility to save lives” instead of answering the question directly.
In today’s Press conferenceAfter that, Psaki received questions from many reporters again, but it might be this that made her dig deeper:
reporter: “Will the White House publicly publish information about vaccine misinformation posts that it has been asked to block on Facebook?”
Jane Psaki: “First of all, we did not require Facebook to block any personal posts. The way to do this is a trend-there is a trend on social media platforms. You know them. We know them. Anyone in the public can know them.
There is also some data, we looked at many media platforms, like many of you, also looked at trending data and reported on it, this is not-considering the number of people getting information from social media, this is expected . media.
It is up to social media platforms to determine their own rules and the application of regulations. Therefore, we will definitely raise our concerns about inaccurate information disseminated on any platform. “
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Just like what she did to Doocy on Friday, Psaki put government officials on Facebook to flag what they said public information on the same boat as mainstream media members who flag social media trends in reports, apparently again hoping that people don’t understand The press conducted investigations and reported the difference between alleged misinformation posted on social media and the federal government searched for private posts on the same website and then tweeted about them, blinking at Facebook to put pressure on the tech giants to act.
In addition, the fallback answer of “We did not ask Facebook to block any personal posts” did not cut it. For the past five years, Facebook has been under tremendous pressure from the Democrats to criticize what they consider to be “misinformation” posts (back to the 2016 election), and Facebook has largely imposed on them The pressure is mainly due to their goal and their Democratic masters: to control the flow of information by suppressing the voices of conservatives and amplifying the voices of liberals.
The White House hinted that they were just reminding Facebook of the so-called questionable posts and let them decide how to deal with these posts. From a goodwill point of view, this is very dishonest. What the Biden administration is doing here is to use the full power of the federal government to suppress social media companies and act on the reports they receive from whistleblowers in the surgeon’s office, hoping that Facebook will take action to review privately posted content. Citizens who they consider offensive, all of which are under the guise of “responsibility to save lives”
If this is not the big brother mentality of real-time broadcasting, I don’t know what it is. This should scare everyone, Republicans, Democrats, and everyone in between. Therefore, every time the Biden White House is asked this question, they will redouble their emphasis without apology, as if they believe that what they have done is absolutely not wrong.
