{"id":1541838,"date":"2022-07-06T15:51:19","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1541838"},"modified":"2022-07-06T15:51:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:51:21","slug":"desantis-office-fires-back-after-claims-students-need-to-register-their-political-views-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-office-fires-back-after-claims-students-need-to-register-their-political-views-in-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis Office Fires Back After Claims Students Need to Register Their \u2018Political Views\u2019 in Florida"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fdesantis-office-fires-back-after-claims-students-need-to-register-their-political-views-in-florida%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=1541838&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-florida\">Florida<\/a> Gov. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-ron-desantis\">Ron DeSantis<\/a>\u2019s office on Wednesday responded to viral claims that students have to register their political views with the state.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for the Republican governor, Bryan Griffin, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/desantis-team-hits-back-media-figures-debunked-claim-students-registering-political-views-state\">Fox News<\/a> that it\u2019s not true that students, professors, and faculty have to register their political views.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo, students and faculty are not required to \u2018register their political views,&#8217;\u201d Griffin said Wednesday. \u201cThis same fake claim was circling the liberal Twittersphere after the bill was signed in 2021. It was debunked then. It has been debunked again, now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This week, several verified Twitter users\u2014including author <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/StephenKing\/status\/1544488679644823554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1544488679644823554%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdesantis-team-hits-back-media-figures-debunked-claim-students-registering-political-views-state\">Stephen King<\/a>, USA Today reporter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshMeyerDC\/status\/1544657456093085696?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1544657456093085696%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdesantis-team-hits-back-media-figures-debunked-claim-students-registering-political-views-state\">Josh Meyer<\/a>,\u00a0MSNBC columnist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ruthbenghiat\/status\/1544683838000902149?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1544683838000902149%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdesantis-team-hits-back-media-figures-debunked-claim-students-registering-political-views-state\">Ruth Ben-Ghiat<\/a>, and MSNBC\u00a0analyst <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AmandiOnAir\/status\/1544322250698113027?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1544322250698113027%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxnews.com%2Fpolitics%2Fdesantis-team-hits-back-media-figures-debunked-claim-students-registering-political-views-state\">Fernand Amandi<\/a>\u2014spread the claim. Some re-posted a 2021 article from left-wing outlet Salon that claimed that a Florida state law that calls for viewpoint diversity and intellectual freedom in colleges forces students and faculty to register their views.<\/p>\n<p>King, without making any citations, simply wrote, \u201cDeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state. I. Can\u2019t. Even.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Griffin said that \u201cviewpoint diversity surveys are anonymous, voluntary, and no personal information is collected by them at all\u2014only feedback on the intellectual freedom of the campus environment, which is what the survey was designed to determine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> Law <\/p>\n<p>According to the text of the law, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/fn-document-service\/file-by-sha384\/276386dee982fe4f6dd72881965933a3b646909be7be9ef50745102eaea7bae7cb790657fada08d18e4a9dd085293aed\">signed<\/a> by DeSantis in June of last year, it directs the Florida State Board of Education to \u201crequire each Florida College System institution to conduct an annual assessment of the intellectual freedom and viewpoint diversity at that institution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe State Board of Education shall select or create an objective, nonpartisan, and statistically valid survey to be used by each institution which considers the extent to which competing ideas and perspectives are presented and members of the college community, including students, faculty, and staff, feel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\u2019s office on Wednesday responded to viral claims that students have to register their political views with the state. A spokesman for the Republican governor, Bryan Griffin, told Fox News that it\u2019s not true that students, professors, and faculty have to register their political views. \u201cNo, students and faculty are not required [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"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-1541838","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\/1541838","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\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541838\/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=1541838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}