{"id":593886,"date":"2021-07-16T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=593886"},"modified":"2021-07-16T15:36:45","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T19:36:45","slug":"watch-psaki-gets-grilled-over-the-biden-admin-pushing-tech-companies-to-censor-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-psaki-gets-grilled-over-the-biden-admin-pushing-tech-companies-to-censor-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: Psaki Gets Grilled Over The Biden Admin Pushing Tech Companies To Censor 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\">28<\/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%2Fwatch-psaki-gets-grilled-over-the-biden-admin-pushing-tech-companies-to-censor-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=593886&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\/JP-1-scaled-2.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was grilled during Friday\u2019s press briefing over her admission that the Biden administration is pushing social media companies to censor what they deem is \u201cmisinformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki downplayed the notion that people care more about the government spying on them than they care about people dying from COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe big concern though, I think for a lot of people on Facebook, is that now this is big brother watching you,\u201d a reporter said to Psaki.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re more concerned about that than people dying across the country because of a pandemic where misinformation is traveling on social media platforms?\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cThat feels unlikely to me, if you have the data to back that up. I\u2019m happy to discuss it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd about things that are on Facebook, I looked this morning, there are videos of Dr. Fauci from 2020 before anybody had a vaccine, and he\u2019s out there saying there\u2019s no reason to be walking around with a mask,\u201d the reporter responded. \u201cSo, is the administration going to contact Facebook and ask them to take that down?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, first, I think what Dr. Fauci has said himself, whose been quite public out there is that science evolves, information evolves, and we make that available in a public way to the American people,\u201d Psaki responded. \u201cI have never seen any data to suggest that the vaccines cause infertility. That is information that is irresponsible traveling, okay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reporter then noted that officials used to call the notion that the pandemic originated in a Chinese lab a conspiracy theory and now they concede that the theory is highly plausible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe don\u2019t take anything down. We don\u2019t block anything,\u201d Psaki claimed. \u201cFacebook, and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. Our point is that there is information that is leading to people not taking the vaccine, and people are dying as a result, and we have responsibility as a public health matter to raise that issue. The responsibility we all have the government media platforms, public messengers to give accurate information.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"9.8727272727273\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Peter Doocy just destroyed the White House&#8217;s calls for censorship of &#8220;disinformation&#8221; on live TV.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki did not see this one coming.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the entire video. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ITPrMfdPFW\">pic.twitter.com\/ITPrMfdPFW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1416095333877260292?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>TRANSCRIPT:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"87\">\n<p><em>REPORTER: And then speaking of misinformation and the announcement from yesterday, for how long has the administration been spying on people\u2019s Facebook profiles looking for vaccine misinformation?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: That was quite a loaded and inaccurate question, which I would refute. Well, Peter, first of all, as you know, we\u2019re in, we\u2019re in a regular touch with with a range of media outlets as we are in regular touch with social media platforms. This is publicly open information, people sharing information online, just as you are all reporting information on your news stations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: Okay, so these 12 people who you have on a list, 12 individuals, do they know that somebody at the Surgeon General\u2019s office is going through their profile?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: I\u2019m happy to get you the citation of where that comes from. There\u2019s no secret list, I will tell you that these are people who are sharing information on public platforms on Facebook, information that is traveling, is inaccurate. Our biggest concern here and I frankly think it should be your biggest concern is the number of people who are dying around the country because they\u2019re getting misinformation that is leading them to not take a vaccine, young people, old people, kids, children, this is all being a lot of them are being impacted by misinformation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: The big concern though, I think for a lot of people on Facebook, is that now this is big brother watching you.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: They\u2019re more concerned about that than people dying across the country because of a pandemic where misinformation is traveling on social media platforms? That feels unlikely to me, if you have the data to back that up. I\u2019m happy to discuss it.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: And about things that are on Facebook, I looked this morning, there are videos of Dr. Fauci from 2020, before anybody had a vaccine, and he\u2019s out there saying there\u2019s no reason to be walking around with a mask. So, is the administration going to contact Facebook and ask them to take that down?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: Well, first, I think what Dr. Fauci has said himself, whose been quite public out there is that science evolves, information evolves, and we make that available in a public way to the American people. I have never seen any data to suggest that the vaccines cause infertility. That is information that is irresponsible traveling, okay.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>REPORTER: About the science of science evolving, Facebook used to post, used to block people from posting that COVID may have originated from a lab, that is something that this president now admits is a possibility. So is there any concern that things you\u2019re trying to block or have taken down might someday turn out to be accurate?<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>PSAKI: We don\u2019t take anything down. We don\u2019t block anything. Facebook, and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. Our point is that there is information that is leading to people not taking the vaccine, and people are dying as a result, and we have responsibility as a public health matter to raise that issue. The responsibility we all have the government media platforms, public messengers to give accurate information.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span>member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span>.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki was grilled during Friday\u2019s press briefing over her admission that the Biden administration is pushing social media companies to censor what they deem is &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"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-593886","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\/593886","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=593886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593886\/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=593886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}