{"id":589131,"date":"2021-07-12T15:35:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=589131"},"modified":"2021-07-12T15:35:31","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T19:35:31","slug":"report-the-dnc-wants-phone-companies-to-police-text-messages-for-vaccine-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/report-the-dnc-wants-phone-companies-to-police-text-messages-for-vaccine-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: The DNC Wants Phone Companies To Police Text Messages For Vaccine Misinformation"},"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%2Freport-the-dnc-wants-phone-companies-to-police-text-messages-for-vaccine-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=589131&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1327680512-scaled-e1626116887264.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Democratic National Committee reportedly want Short Message Service (SMS) carriers to step in and police private text messages as part of a new Democratic push against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>Allies of President Joe Biden, including the DNC, plan to \u201cengage fact-checkers more aggressively\u201d and work alongside phone companies to combat misinformation about vaccines shared via social media and private SMS messages, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2021\/07\/12\/biden-covid-vaccination-campaign-499278\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to a Monday report from Politico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>White House officials are particularly frustrated with the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/07\/marjorie-taylor-greene-joe-biden-vaccine-push-nazi-storm-troopers-brown-shirts-holocaust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">characterization by some Republicans<\/a> of their door-to-door pro-vaccination campaign, according to the report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.8936170212766\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Sorry, just making sure I have this straight:<\/p>\n<p>The DNC now wants companies to police text messages for content? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qo4KmKWhVc\">https:\/\/t.co\/qo4KmKWhVc<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Vince Coglianese (@VinceCoglianese) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/VinceCoglianese\/status\/1414651982288199681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 12, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>One example SMS message cited by Politico was sent by conservative activist group Turning Point USA, in which co-founder Charlie Kirk falsely contends that \u201cBiden is sending goons DOOR-TO-DOOR to make you take a Covid-19 vaccine. Sign the petition to: No medical raids in America.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we see deliberate efforts to spread misinformation, we view that as an impediment to the country\u2019s public health and will not shy away from calling that out,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/09\/jen-psaki-promises-white-house-no-intention-maintain-database-xavier-becerra-comments-coronavirus-vaccine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White House<\/a> spokesman Kevin Munoz told Politico.<\/p>\n<p>Big Tech platforms and corporate media outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/26\/covid-lab-leak-google-facebook-bill-maher\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have consistently cracked down<\/a> on alleged \u201cmisinformation\u201d throughout the pandemic, but in some cases, they\u2019ve censored or suppressed information that turned out to be true. Perhaps the chief example is the lab-leak theory, which hypothesizes that the pandemic originated from an accidental leak of the virus out of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/09\/joe-biden-door-to-door-vaccines-covid-19-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Biden administration<\/a> has blamed misinformation for contributing to vaccine hesitancy and slowing down the country\u2019s vaccination campaign. Biden set a goal of achieving a 70% vaccination rate by July 4, but the U.S. fell just short of that benchmark.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe failure to provide accurate public health information, including the efficacy of vaccines and the accessibility of them to people across the country, including South Carolina, is literally killing people, so maybe they should consider that,\u201d White House press secretary <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/08\/white-house-biden-door-to-door-covid-19-coronavirus-vaccine-push\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jen Psaki<\/a> said last week.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/07\/joe-biden-jen-psaki-door-to-door-vaccination-efforts-reality\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">door-to-door outreach plan<\/a> involves sending volunteer community and religious leaders to households in areas with low vaccination rates to share information about the available COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S, which are overwhelmingly safe and effective. These outreach efforts have been ongoing for several months in less-vaccinated communities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/associated-press-poll-vaccines-america-hesitancy-republicans-evangelicals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Polling indicates<\/a> that many of the remaining vaccine holdouts aren\u2019t necessarily having difficulty hearing about or accessing the shots, but simply don\u2019t want them. Some federal officials are blaming that on politics. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/01\/white-house-surge-response-teams-covid-19-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: White House Announces \u2018Surge Response\u2019 Teams To Combat COVID-19 Delta Variant)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big misinterpretation that Fox News or whomever else is saying is that they are essentially envisioning a bunch of federal workers knocking on your door, telling you you\u2019ve got to do something that you don\u2019t want to do,\u201d NIAID director <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/07\/anthony-fauci-vaccine-hesitancy-just-get-over-it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dr. Anthony Fauci<\/a> said Sunday. \u201cThat\u2019s absolutely not the case, it\u2019s trusted messengers who are part of the community doing that \u2013 not government officials. So that\u2019s where I think the disconnect is.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic National Committee reportedly want Short Message Service (SMS) carriers to step in and police private text messages as part of a new Democratic push against COVID-19 vaccine misinformation.Allies &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2314505,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1327680512-scaled-e1626116887264.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"REPORT: The DNC Wants Phone Companies To Police Text Messages For Vaccine Misinformation","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-589131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1327680512-scaled-e1626116887264.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"REPORT: The DNC Wants Phone Companies To Police Text Messages For Vaccine Misinformation","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589131","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=589131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2314505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}