{"id":1783589,"date":"2022-12-22T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783589"},"modified":"2022-12-22T09:07:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T14:07:49","slug":"vp-harris-says-social-media-companies-should-cooperate-and-work-with-us-on-protecting-our-democracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vp-harris-says-social-media-companies-should-cooperate-and-work-with-us-on-protecting-our-democracy\/","title":{"rendered":"VP Harris Says Social Media Companies Should &#8220;Cooperate and Work With Us&#8221; on &#8220;Protecting Our Democracy&#8221;"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fvp-harris-says-social-media-companies-should-cooperate-and-work-with-us-on-protecting-our-democracy%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=1783589&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>Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-kamala-harris\">Kamala Harris<\/a> said on Monday that she expects and \u201cwould require\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-social-media\">social media<\/a> companies to work with the Biden administration to prevent so-called misinformation and disinformation, and to \u201cprotect democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/12\/19\/1144237356\/vice-president-harris-looks-back-at-2022-and-ahead-to-2023\">interview<\/a> with NPR that aired\u00a0on Monday,\u00a0Harris was asked for her thoughts regarding the changes made at Twitter since Elon Musk took over the platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think about this issue a bit differently, which\u00a0is my deep and\u00a0profound concern about how\u00a0misinformation and disinformation have\u00a0infiltrated information streams in our country,\u201d Harris said.<\/p>\n<p>The vice president pointed to her four years as a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, during which she was actively involved in the investigation into alleged Russian interference with the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Harris said that reports on the matter, both classified and public, showed that there was a \u201cprofound amount of intentional disinformation and misinformation targeting specific demographics to take advantage of what might be preexisting disparities and skepticism about the role and importance of government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She added that this was allegedly done to weaken American democracy.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4774661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/10\/04\/Joe_Biden_and_Kamala_Harris_141695641-1200x750.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy size-medium wp-image-4774661\" style=\"display: none;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/themes\/eet\/images\/white.png\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Joe_Biden_and_Kamala_Harris_141695641-600x375-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4774661\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Joe_Biden_and_Kamala_Harris_141695641-600x375-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in a file photo. (Office of the POTUS)<\/figure>\n<h2>Big Tech Must \u2018Cooperate\u2019 With Government<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cWhen I see how social media is used in that way, it causes me a very deep level of concern,\u201d Harris said. \u201cSo, what I would say about any social media site is this: I fully expect and would require that leaders in that sector cooperate and work with us who are concerned about national security, concerned about upholding and protecting our democracy, to do everything in their power to ensure that there is not a manipulation that is allowed or overlooked that is done with the intention of upending the security of our democracy and our nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The vice president\u2019s comments come amid reports of federal government\u00a0collusion\u00a0with\u00a0Big Tech\u00a0companies to censor users.\u00a0White House officials have denied claims that the administration colluded with social media companies to censor free speech on multiple topics,\u00a0including COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) on Dec. 14 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/gop-lawmaker-demands-receipts-from-big-tech-on-alleged-collusion-with-biden-white-house-to-censor-dissenting-views_4926811.html\">wrote to the five largest tech giants<\/a>\u2014Apple, Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Microsoft\u2014demanding documents relating to their alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-censorship\">censorship<\/a> practices and the \u201cnature and extent of your companies\u2019 collusion with the Biden Administration.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBig Tech is out to get conservatives, and is increasingly willing to undermine First Amendment values by complying with the Biden Administration\u2019s directives that suppress freedom of speech online,\u201d Jordan wrote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis approach undermines fundamental American principles and allows powerful government actors to silence political opponents and stifle opposing viewpoints. Publicly available information suggests that your companies\u2019\u00a0treatment of certain speakers and content may stem from government directives or guidance designed to suppress dissenting views,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4690615\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Then Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey addresses students during a town hall at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in New Delhi, India, on Nov. 12, 2018. (Anushree Fadnavis\/Reuters)<\/figure>\n<h2>Dorsey Says Government Seeking to Control Public Conversation<\/h2>\n<p>That letter came as\u00a0Twitter CEO Elon Musk has taken to the platform in recent weeks to unveil\u00a0the so-called \u201cTwitter Files,\u201d which detail how\u00a0conservative commentators had their\u00a0tweets censored by the platform and how staffers worked\u00a0to suppress a\u00a0New York Post article about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop ahead of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Following the release of the files, former\u00a0Twitter\u00a0CEO\u00a0Jack Dorsey wrote in a blog post that\u00a0social media must \u201cbe resilient to corporate and government control.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorsey added that governments seek to control and shape the public conversation and will use \u201cevery method at their disposal\u201d to do so, which the businessman said includes the media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s critical that the people have tools to resist this, and that those tools are ultimately owned by the people. Allowing a government or a few corporations to own the public conversation is a path toward centralized control,\u201d Dorsey added.<\/p>\n<p><em>Bryan Jung contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\"><\/div>\n<p>Katabella Roberts is a news writer for The Epoch Times, focusing primarily on the United States, world, and business news.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice President Kamala Harris said on Monday that she expects and \u201cwould require\u201d social media companies to work with the Biden administration to prevent so-called misinformation and disinformation, and to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1899030,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"VP Harris Says Social Media Companies Should &#8220;Cooperate and Work With Us&#8221; on &#8220;Protecting Our Democracy&#8221;","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[10735,9124,6962,10847,5458,6997,5521,4021,4188,7042,3819,4005,3818,5127,9029,3635,4304],"class_list":["post-1783589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report","tag-cooperate","tag-our","tag-the","tag-and","tag-bongino","tag-companies","tag-democracy","tag-harris","tag-media","tag-protecting","tag-report","tag-says","tag-should","tag-social","tag-us","tag-with","tag-work"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"VP Harris Says Social Media Companies Should &#8220;Cooperate and Work With Us&#8221; on &#8220;Protecting Our Democracy&#8221;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783589","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=1783589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1899030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}