{"id":475454,"date":"2021-05-05T18:20:52","date_gmt":"2021-05-05T22:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=475454"},"modified":"2021-05-05T18:20:53","modified_gmt":"2021-05-05T22:20:53","slug":"psaki-defends-facebooks-ban-of-president-trump-claims-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/psaki-defends-facebooks-ban-of-president-trump-claims-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Psaki defends Facebook\u2019s ban of President Trump, claims \u2018misinformation\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\">18<\/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%2Fpsaki-defends-facebooks-ban-of-president-trump-claims-misinformation%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=475454&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 id=\"attachment_2404940\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2404940\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&nbsp;WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JANUARY 21: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2021 in Washington, DC. Psaki held her second press briefing since President Joe Biden took office yesterday. (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 3:15 PM PT \u2013 Wednesday, May 5, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The Biden administration appears to be satisfied with Facebook\u2019s decision to extend its ban on President Trump\u2019s account. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told reporters Wednesday, Facebook\u2019s decision to uphold the ban was legitimate.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">President Trump slams Big Tech:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What Facebook, Twitter, and Google have done is a total disgrace and an embarrassment to our Country. Free Speech has been taken away from the President of the United States because the Radical Left Lunatics are afraid of the truth\u2026&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>FULL: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2isX1JjgQi\">pic.twitter.com\/2isX1JjgQi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Natalie Harp (@NatalieJHarp) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NatalieJHarp\/status\/1389962284944949251?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>She claimed the decision was made by an \u201cindependent\u201d board, although it\u2019s comprised of prominent far-left activists and political operatives. This came after President Trump launched his new communications platform: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/desk\">From the Desk of Donald J. Trump<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Jen Psaki comments on Facebook decision to ban Trump: &#8220;This is an independent board decision and we&#8217;re not going to have any comment on the future of the former president&#8217;s social media platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/charliespiering\/status\/1389989118852091907?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 5, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>When asked about the 45th President\u2019s latest initiative, Psaki refused to comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell look, I think we are of course a believer in First Amendment rights,\u201d Psaki said. \u201cI think decisions\u2026that the social media platforms need to make is how they address the disinformation, misinformation, especially related to life-threatening issues like COVID-19 and vaccinations, that continue to proliferate on their platforms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For his part, President Trump said Facebook and the rest of Big Tech have repeatedly violated the First Amendment.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/illegal-immigrants-top-priority-for-biden-dhs-not-americans\/\">Illegal Immigrants \u2018Top Priority\u2019 For Biden DHS, Not Americans<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0WASHINGTON, DC \u2013 JANUARY 21: White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki speaks during a press briefing at the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House January 21, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2277414,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475454","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\/475454","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=475454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2277414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}