{"id":603509,"date":"2021-07-27T11:06:04","date_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=603509"},"modified":"2021-07-27T11:06:05","modified_gmt":"2021-07-27T15:06:05","slug":"alarmed-and-suspicious-senators-tell-biden-to-explain-crackdown-on-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alarmed-and-suspicious-senators-tell-biden-to-explain-crackdown-on-misinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Alarmed And Suspicious\u2019: Senators Tell Biden To Explain Crackdown On \u2018Misinformation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/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%2Falarmed-and-suspicious-senators-tell-biden-to-explain-crackdown-on-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=603509&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\/934AD802-0E5C-4991-BFA8-038A48136962_1_201_a.jpeg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>Members of the Senate warned President Biden that his policy of coordinating with social media companies to flag \u201cmisinformation\u201d violates Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>As <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/psaki-if-you-post-misinformation-online-you-should-be-banned-from-all-social-media-platforms\"><span>The Daily Wire<\/span><\/a><span> previously reported, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki recently said that users \u201cshouldn\u2019t be banned from one platform and not others\u201d if they post \u201cmisinformation online.\u201d She also revealed that the Biden administration is \u201cflagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last week, President Biden <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-says-these-12-people-are-responsible-for-most-covid-misinformation-never-says-who-they-are\"><span>alleged<\/span><\/a><span> that Facebook is \u201ckilling people\u201d by allowing a particular subset of users to spread their views about COVID-19.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThese twelve people are out there giving misinformation. Anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. It\u2019s killing people. It\u2019s bad information,\u201d Biden said. \u201cMy hope is that Facebook, instead of taking it personally, that somehow I\u2019m saying Facebook is killing people, that they would do something about the misinformation, the outrageous misinformation about the vaccine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In response, a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ronjohnson.senate.gov\/2021\/7\/sen-johnson-leads-colleagues-in-letter-to-president-biden-on-the-government-s-dangerous-assault-on-americans-freedom-of-speech\"><span>letter<\/span><\/a><span> sent to the Commander-in-Chief on Monday by Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) \u2014 joined by Mike Lee (R-UT), Rand Paul (R-KY), Mike Braun (R-IN), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Kevin Cramer (R-ND), Rick Scott (R-FL), James Lankford (R-OK), and Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) \u2014 cited Psaki\u2019s statements and expressed concern that the Biden administration\u2019s policy toward \u201cmisinformation\u201d is unavoidably partisan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The letter reads:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"20\">\n<p><i><span>The public is already aware of efforts by the media and the executive branch to silence information that is unflattering to this Administration under the guise of \u201cdisinformation.\u201d For example, unnamed intelligence officials, the media, and social media platforms engaged in a coordinated effort to censor stories about Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop and his questionable financial dealings under the false label of \u201cdisinformation\u201d\u2026<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><i><span>With this history, big tech, the corporate media, and the Administration have no credibility in determining what is and isn\u2019t \u201cmisinformation.\u201d Americans are rightfully alarmed and suspicious of the motivations behind the Administration\u2019s apparent coordination with tech companies to potentially censor disfavored speech, as vaguely described by Ms. Psaki at the recent White House press briefing.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span>Demanding that the administration \u201chalt any actions it has or is currently undertaking to censor Americans\u2019 speech,\u201d the lawmakers asked President Biden to provide the legal justification for flagging misinformation; a specific description of how the administration is working with social media companies; and definitions of terms like \u201ctrusted content,\u201d \u201caccurate information,\u201d and \u201cnarrative.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\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>Members of the Senate warned President Biden that his policy of coordinating with social media companies to flag \u201cmisinformation\u201d violates Americans\u2019 First Amendment rights.As The Daily Wire previously reported, White &#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-603509","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\/603509","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=603509"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603509\/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=603509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}