{"id":1372183,"date":"2022-03-11T21:35:53","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1372183"},"modified":"2022-03-11T21:35:55","modified_gmt":"2022-03-12T02:35:55","slug":"jen-psaki-to-tiktok-influencers-russians-hacked-the-2016-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jen-psaki-to-tiktok-influencers-russians-hacked-the-2016-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Jen Psaki to TikTok Influencers: Russians Hacked the 2016 Election"},"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\">20<\/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%2Fjen-psaki-to-tiktok-influencers-russians-hacked-the-2016-election%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=1372183&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--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">White House press secretary Jen Psaki spread disinformation about the 2016 election during a special briefing with TikTok influencers on the dangers of Russian disinformation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard this briefing was happening, I basically crashed and invited myself,\u201d Jen Psaki said at the beginning of the briefing with TikTok content creators.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>During the briefing, posted in full by the <em>Washington Post<\/em>\u2018s Taylor Lorenz, Psaki spoke about the importance of the federal government declassifying and calling out the Russians for spreading false information online.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look back at 2014, and even frankly even 2016 when Russia invaded Ukraine and 2016 when they hacked our election here, we did not do that, we did not declassify information,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Although Russians targeted election systems in the United States, there is no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2018\/05\/08\/senate-report-no-evidence-russians-changed-vote-tallies-2016\/592978002\/\">evidence<\/a> that their efforts affected the vote count, according to a\u00a0Senate Intelligence Committee\u2019s Russia report.<\/p>\n<p>But Psaki pointed to the \u201cdisinformation war\u201d leveled by the Russians in Ukraine, pointing out the importance of calling it out and declassifying information as quickly as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve called them these sort of \u2018false flags\u2019 or setting up false pretexts, which is basically their effort to justify an invasion and justify all of the military action you\u2019ve seen them take,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also spent time denying the administration\u2019s responsibility for rising gas prices and inflation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me just go down a nerd rabbit hole for like 30 seconds and then I\u2019ll come back out I promise, but I feel like this is a safe nerd place,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She warned of higher inflation in future months, blaming Russian president Vladimir Putin for the price of gas spiking after he further invaded Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRight now. Inflation is supposed to moderate, and that means come back down at the end of the year,\u201d Psaki said.<\/p>\n<p>She also reminded TikTok influencers that they were making a moral stand by paying more money for gas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s because of what President Putin is doing but also because you live in a country where we are rallying the world to stand up against that and that is part of our values and that is part of who we are,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki spread disinformation about the 2016 election during a special briefing with TikTok influencers on the dangers of Russian disinformation. \u201cWhen I heard this briefing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-1372183","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\/1372183","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1372183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1372183\/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=1372183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1372183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1372183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}