{"id":595020,"date":"2021-07-17T13:20:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=595020"},"modified":"2021-07-17T13:20:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T17:20:23","slug":"white-house-press-sec-jen-psaki-wants-to-quash-misinformation-she-has-a-history-of-promoting-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-press-sec-jen-psaki-wants-to-quash-misinformation-she-has-a-history-of-promoting-it\/","title":{"rendered":"White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki Wants To Quash Misinformation \u2014 She Has A History Of Promoting It"},"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\">36<\/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%2Fwhite-house-press-sec-jen-psaki-wants-to-quash-misinformation-she-has-a-history-of-promoting-it%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=595020&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\/psaki-1-scaled-e1622222155839.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki came under fire on Friday for saying that promoting \u201cmisinformation\u201d should get you banned from every social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be banned from one platform and not others for providing misinformation,\u201d Psaki <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/jen-psaki-people-banned-social-media-one-platform-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in Friday\u2019s White House press briefing, calling on Facebook to \u201cmeasure and publicly share the impact of misinformation on their platform.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Psaki herself has a history of promoting many stories on Twitter before becoming White House press secretary that turned out to be false.<\/p>\n<p>After the New York Post published emails in late October 2020 found on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop implicating his father, then-Democratic nominee for President Joe Biden, in his overseas business dealings, Psaki promoted Politico\u2019s much criticized story that lauded a letter signed by 50 former senior intelligence officials claiming the released emails had \u201call the classic earmarks of a Russian information operation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.5106382978723\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zRdHxTxVsl\">https:\/\/t.co\/zRdHxTxVsl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1318382779659411458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Hunter Biden never denied the authenticity of the emails reported by the Post and later <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/10\/media-reasons-suppressing-hunter-biden-story-false\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revealed<\/a> shortly after the election that he has been under federal investigation since 2018 for his activities in China and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>No evidence was ever presented that the emails were part of a Russian disinformation campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also promoted the dubious story that Russians were paying the Taliban in Afghanistan to kill American soldiers based on a leaked intelligence report.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. officials would later <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/russia-bounty-taliban-low-confidence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reveal<\/a> that they only had \u201clow to moderate confidence\u201d in the veracity of the report that Russians put bounties on American troops and Psaki would <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/15\/psaki-biden-russia-bounty-donald-trump-apology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">offer<\/a> no apology for Biden repeatedly citing the story during the 2020 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also shared the Atlantic\u2019s story citing anonymous sources claiming President Donald Trump canceled a 2018 visit to a military cemetery in France where American troops were buried, saying that they were \u201csuckers and losers.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/21\/russian-bounties-find-the-fraud-lab-leak-theory-media-narratives\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Russian Bounties, Find The Fraud, Lab Leak Theory: Here Are All The Media Narratives That Fell Apart)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"6.6542056074766\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">yes\u2014bounties on the head of American soldiers\u2014it is insane.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1311127174355783680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 30, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.2108626198083\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">taking a moment to re-up the fact that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@realDonaldTrump<\/a> knew about Russia offering bounties to Taliban to take out US troops in Afghanistan and still defends Putin. his undervaluing contribution of US troops not just horrific\u2013but also dangerous <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iqylqMyvqA\">https:\/\/t.co\/iqylqMyvqA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1301905812676374529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The credibility of the anonymous sources in the \u201csuckers and losers\u201d story quickly unraveled when a FOIA\u2019d document from the Navy revealed that the visit to the cemetery was actually cancelled due to weather.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.718232044199\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">On that Atlantic Story \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JeffreyGoldberg?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@JeffreyGoldberg<\/a> and his \u201cfour sources\u201d claim Trump\u2019s helicopter flight to the US\/French cemetery wasn\u2019t cancelled due to weather.<\/p>\n<p>FOIA docs prove this to be false.<\/p>\n<p>Their \u201csources\u201d are failing basic fact checks \u2013 making them essentially worthless. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wAa7FrSxoW\">pic.twitter.com\/wAa7FrSxoW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Techno_Fog\/status\/1301741080577298437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 4, 2020<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Several high profile members of the Trump administration at the time also went on the record to deny the story, most notably former national security adviser John Bolton, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/09\/06\/never-happened-sources-close-to-trump-rally-defense-atlantic-story\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> that he would have written an entire chapter about it in his book if it were true.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Psaki many times during the Trump administration pushed claims of Russian collusion that were proven false by the Mueller report.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"9.0340909090909\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Important to remember Flynn is the tip of the iceberg. Russia ties with Trump team, and interest in creating chaos in US are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/831475228266135554?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 14, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"11.328358208955\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Democrats don\u2019t lose the high ground because a passionate freshman member used the F word. Who cares. We lose it if we also colluded with Russia, if we also are paid off porn stars, if we also obstructed justice. We didn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/1081240128574705665?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 4, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.3463687150838\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Your don\u2019t agree to meet with a Russian lawyer who promises dirt about your political opponent unless you are probably willing to collude.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/884360574305538048?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 10, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.2380952380952\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">For all of the Republican talking points claiming there is nothing to see on the Russia and Trump connections\u2026a lot we know <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ESDk2n4RNG\">https:\/\/t.co\/ESDk2n4RNG<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen Psaki (@jrpsaki) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jrpsaki\/status\/843822358649602049?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 20, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Biden administration has recently become more vocal in calling social media to censor what they consider to be misinformation, which the president <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/joe-biden-current-pandemic-among-unvaccinated-misinformation-facebook-killing-people\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> on Friday is \u201ckilling people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Psaki also faced criticism for saying during Thursday\u2019s press briefing that the White House is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/covid-19-jen-psaki-white-house-facebook\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">working&nbsp;<\/a>with Facebook to flag misleading content.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki came under fire on Friday for saying that promoting \u201cmisinformation\u201d should get you banned from every social media platform.\u201cYou shouldn\u2019t be banned from one &#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-595020","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\/595020","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=595020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/595020\/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=595020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=595020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=595020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}