Official Whitehouse press spokesperson openly admitted that the Whitehouse pressures private corporations to censor speech, and deny U.S. citizens God-given rights gauranteed in the U.S. Constitutions
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âTheyâre killing people.â
That was the simple declarative sentence President Joe Biden uttered in response to a question a reporter asked him July 16 as he left the White House.
âOn COVID misinformation, whatâs your message to platforms like Facebook?â the reporter had shouted as the president was walking toward Marine One.
Biden turned and walked directly toward the reporter.
âTheyâre killing people,â he said.
âI mean, it reallyâlook, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,â he said. âAnd theyâre killing people.â
At her regular briefing the day before, White House press secretary Jen Psaki had explained how the administration was working with social media companies, including Facebook, in the hope of getting them to adopt what she called âa robust enforcement strategyâ against COVID-19 misinformation.
âCan you talk a little bit more about this request for tech companies to be more aggressive in policing misinformation?â a reporter asked Psaki. âHas the administration been in touch with any of these companies? And are there any actions that the federal government can take to ensure their cooperation, because weâve seen, from the start, thereâs not a lot of action on some of these platforms?â
âSure,â Psaki responded. âWell, first, we are in regular touch with these social media platforms, and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff, but also members of our COVID-19 team, given, as [Surgeon General Vivek] Murthy conveyed, this is a big issue of misinformation, specifically on the pandemic.â
Then she made a very specific claim that is memorialized at 17 minutes and 30 seconds into C-SPANâs online video of the briefing.
âWeâre flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,â Psaki said.
Psaki went on to explain that the administration had âproposed changesâ for Facebook and other social media companies.
âThere are also proposed changes that we have made to social media platforms, including Facebook, and those specifically are four key steps,â Psaki said.
The first one, she said, is âthat they measure and publicly share the impact of misinformation on their platform. Facebook should provide, publicly and transparently, data on the reach of COVID vaccine misinformation.â
The second change the White House proposed for Facebook and other social media companies was what Psaki called âa robust enforcement strategyâ against those who engage in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.
âSecond, we have recommendedâproposed that they create a robust enforcement strategy that bridges their properties and provides transparency about the rules,â said Psaki.
âThereâs about 12 people who are producing 65% of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms,â Psaki said. âAll of them remain active on Facebook, despite some even being banned on other platforms, including ones that Facebook owns.â
Psaki did not name these 12 people.
The next thing the White House wanted, Psaki explained, was for Facebook and other social media companies âto move more quickly to removeâ posts deemed âharmful.â
âThird, itâs important to take faster action against harmful posts,â said Psaki. âAs you all know, information travels quite quickly on social media platforms; sometimes itâs not accurate. And Facebook needs to move more quickly to remove harmful, violative posts. Posts that will be within their policies for removal often remain up for days. Thatâs too long. The information spreads too quickly.â
The final thing the White House wants Facebook to do is âpromoteâ what the White House calls âquality information.â
âFinally, we have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feed algorithm,â said Psaki. âFacebook has repeatedly shown that they have the leverage to promote quality information. Weâve seen them effectively do this in their algorithm over low-quality information and theyâve chosen not to use it in this case. And thatâs certainly an area that would have an impact.
âSo, these are certainly the proposals,â Psaki said. âWe engage with them regularly and they certainly understand what our asks are.â
Obviously, a person can make a true statement about a particular subject or a false one. They can also make a statement that presents a reasonable hypothesis based on facts, or that presents an unreasonable hypothesis based on the same facts.
Or they can make an unreasonable hypothesis based on no facts or on blatant falsehoods.
But whatever the merits or demerits of a personâs thoughts and conclusions, when they express those thoughts and conclusions, they are invariably engaging in speech.
What does Biden want Facebook to do with speech related to COVID-19?
As summarized by Psaki last week, the administration is âflagging problematic posts for Facebookâ that the administration believes are spreading âdisinformationâ and that âFacebook needs to move more quickly to remove.â
Then, as Psaki put it: âWe have proposed they promote quality information sources in their feed algorithm.â
Now, put this in the context of a subject other than COVID-19 where human lives are also at risk.
In its latest annual report, Planned Parenthood said that in fiscal year 2019, its affiliates did 354,871 âabortion procedures.â
In a 2012 vice presidential debate with former Rep. Paul Ryan, as this column has noted before, Biden presented a scientific fact as if it were a religious position.
âLife begins at conception,â Biden said. âThatâs the churchâs judgment. I accept it in my personal life.â
On its Facebook page, by contrast, Planned Parenthood presents abortion as a form of âhealth careâ provided by âheroes.â
âAbortion is an essential part of health care,â Planned Parenthood said on Facebook on July 17.
âAbortion providers are heroes,â it said in a March 11 posting.
Does Bidenâwho said life begins at conceptionâbelieve it is misinformation to call the deliberate taking of a human life âhealth careâ and those who do that taking âheroesâ?
Does he believe Facebook needs to take action âagainst harmful postsâ that promote the taking of unborn lives?
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