{"id":1546487,"date":"2022-07-10T07:20:10","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T11:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1546487"},"modified":"2022-07-10T07:20:14","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T11:20:14","slug":"salon-website-corrects-year-old-headline-saying-desantis-forces-students-to-register-political-views","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/salon-website-corrects-year-old-headline-saying-desantis-forces-students-to-register-political-views\/","title":{"rendered":"Salon Website Corrects Year-Old Headline Saying DeSantis Forces Students to Register Political Views"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fsalon-website-corrects-year-old-headline-saying-desantis-forces-students-to-register-political-views%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=1546487&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>Left-wing outlet Salon changed a year-old headline, after falsely stating Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a 2021 bill that forces Florida\u2019s students and professors to register their political views with the state.<\/p>\n<p>The original headline published in June 2021, which read \u201cDeSantis signs bill requiring Florida students, professors to register political views with state,\u201d has recently been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.salon.com\/2021\/06\/23\/desantis-signs-bill-requiring-florida-students-professors-to-register-political-views-with-state\/\">updated<\/a> with \u201cDeSantis signs bill requiring survey of Florida students, professors on their political views.\u201d In its latest version, the editorial team added a correction, claiming the change was made \u201cto more accurately reflect the language of the bill in question.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Salon Executive Editor Andrew O\u2019Hehir told <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2022\/07\/08\/politics\/fact-check-desantis-florida-students-professors-political-views\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> that the old headline \u201cconveyed a misleading impression of what the Florida law actually said, and did not live up to our editorial standards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Previous <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kylamb8\/status\/1544738365328744448\">efforts<\/a> by DeSantis\u2019s office seeking a correction last year, however, were in vain, said his spokesperson Christina Pushaw.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should have happened much sooner,\u201d Pushaw told CNN in a Thursday email. \u201cThe Salon reporter and editors should have read the legislation before writing an article about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Florida law in question (<a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/fn-document-service\/file-by-sha384\/276386dee982fe4f6dd72881965933a3b646909be7be9ef50745102eaea7bae7cb790657fada08d18e4a9dd085293aed\">pdf<\/a>), signed by DeSantis in June last year, requires state colleges and universities to conduct annual viewpoint diversity surveys, so as to collect feedback from Florida\u2019s post-secondary students on the intellectual freedom of the campus environment.<\/p>\n<p>Participation in the survey is both anonymous and voluntary, Bryan Griffin, a spokesman for the Republican governor, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/desantis-team-hits-back-media-figures-debunked-claim-students-registering-political-views-state\">Fox News<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\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 Griffin said.<\/p>\n<p>The recent correction came after the 2021 Salon story resurfaced and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/desantis-office-fires-back-after-claims-students-need-to-register-their-political-views-in-florida_4581252.html\">went viral<\/a> on Twitter last week, widely promoted by high profile liberal users including Florida agriculture commissioner Nikki Fried, who is running<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing outlet Salon changed a year-old headline, after falsely stating Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a 2021 bill that forces Florida\u2019s students and professors to register their political views with the state. 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