{"id":1214080,"date":"2022-01-13T12:34:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214080"},"modified":"2022-01-13T12:35:01","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T17:35:01","slug":"biden-calls-for-social-media-censorship-on-virus-deal-with-the-misinformation-and-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-calls-for-social-media-censorship-on-virus-deal-with-the-misinformation-and-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Calls For Social Media Censorship On Virus: \u2018Deal With The Misinformation And Disinformation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbiden-calls-for-social-media-censorship-on-virus-deal-with-the-misinformation-and-disinformation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1214080&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Near the conclusion of a COVID-19 update he gave on Thursday, President Biden called for social media censorship of what he called \u201cthe misinformation and disinformation that\u2019s on your shows.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden stated, \u201cThere are others sitting on the sidelines, and worse, standing in the way. If you haven\u2019t gotten vaccinated, do it. Personal choice impacts us all, our hospitals, our country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI make a special appeal to social media companies and media outlets \u2014 please deal with the misinformation and disinformation that\u2019s on your shows,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt has to stop. Covid-19 is one of the most formidable enemies America\u2019s ever faced. We\u2019ve got to work together, not against each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also boasted,&nbsp;\u201cI\u2019ve taken every action I can as president to require people to wear masks in federal buildings and on airplanes and trains \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n[embedded content]\n<p>The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) Editorial Board <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/censorship-coordination-deepens-11626474643#comments_sector\">reported<\/a> in July 2021 that the Biden administration \u201cbroadcast that it is coordinating with the firms to remove content.\u201d WSJ noted:<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe\u2019re flagging problematic posts for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/FB\">Facebook<\/a>,&nbsp;\u201d said White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki on Thursday, referring to coronavirus misinformation. Meanwhile, the Surgeon General, an officer in the department of Health and Human Services, released a report with a page of suggestions on \u201cwhat technology platforms can do\u201d to crack down on certain information. The Verge&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2021\/7\/15\/22578431\/white-house-surgeon-general-facebook-youtube-twitter-covid-19-misinformation-vaccines\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;that officials at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/market-data\/quotes\/TWTR\">Twitter<\/a>&nbsp;\u201cmet with the surgeon general\u2019s office on Monday to discuss its misinformation policies.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Facebook released a statement to NBC News in response:<\/p>\n<p><em>We will not be distracted by accusations which aren\u2019t supported by the facts. The fact is that more than 2 billion people have viewed authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines on Facebook, which is more than any other place on the internet. More than 3.3 million Americans have also used our vaccine finder tool to find out where and how to get a vaccine. The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives. Period.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Noting the Biden administration\u2019s rhetoric, Jacob Sullum noted in <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/20\/bidens-attempt-to-rope-big-tech-into-censorship-is-downright-sinister\/\">The New York Post<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>This censorship by proxy&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/07\/19\/twitter-suspends-marjorie-taylor-greene-over-misleading-info\/\">is especially troubling<\/a>, because the \u201cmisinformation\u201d that offends Biden and Murthy isn\u2019t limited to verifiably false statements about COVID-19 vaccines, such as claims that they cause infertility or alter human DNA. It also includes messages that are accurate but \u201cmisleading,\u201d which could mean they discourage vaccination by emphasizing small risks, noting that vaccines aren\u2019t completely effective or raising questions about the methodology of vaccine studies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>He concluded:<\/p>\n<p><em>In fact, the \u201chealth misinformation\u201d that Murthy decries includes any statement about COVID-19 that he views as \u201cmisleading\u201d in light of the \u201cbest available evidence,\u201d which is open to interpretation and \u201ccan change over time.\u201d If the Biden administration expects social-media platforms to enforce that hopelessly subjective standard, it is demanding unprecedented regulation of online speech that can\u2019t possibly be reconciled with its avowed respect for freedom of expression.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Near the conclusion of a COVID-19 update he gave on Thursday, President Biden called for social media censorship of what he called \u201cthe misinformation and disinformation that\u2019s on your shows.\u201d Biden stated, \u201cThere are others sitting on the sidelines, and worse, standing in the way. If you haven\u2019t gotten vaccinated, do it. Personal choice impacts &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1214080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}