https://archive.ph/hk3D8 https://reclaimthenet.org/jen-psaki-biden-government-censor-facebook-flagging/

Issue: July 15, 2021

Biden’s Press Secretary admits Federal Government is flagging content for Facebook to censor

The announcement is raising First Amendment violation flags.

By Tom Parker Posted 4:30 pm

https://archive.ph/pUinx

Reclaim The Net‏ @RecIaimTheNet 16 Jul 2021

Happening Now: Biden Press Sec calls for users banned on one social platform to be banned from ALL social platforms. "You shouldn't be banned from one platform and not others if you providing misinformation out there."

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Jen Psaki‏Verified account @jrpsaki 19 Oct 2020

Hunter Biden story is Russian disinfo, dozens of former intel officials say

https://archive.ph/G2d7J

Anne Applebaum‏Verified account @anneapplebaum 16 Jul 2021

"Biden aims blistering attack at tech companies over vaccine falsehoods" Surely Fox poses as big or even bigger problem?

· 9h9 hours ago

it's both

· 9h9 hours ago

We really need to call it for what it is: Murdoch media. It's the same all over the Western world.

· 9h9 hours ago

Fox is flat out disinformation. It is willful, deliberate, and malicious.

· 8h8 hours ago

JFK Jr is one of the Disinformation Dozen on FB. He was banned on Instagram (owned by FB) but he was not banned on FB. How does that make any sense?

· 8h8 hours ago

Yes but tech companies may be more persuadeable for Biden.

 8h8 hours ago

Astute observation. Since Fox presents itself as a provider of news as well as opinion, criticism of Fox can be effectively portrayed as an attack on free speech. So Fox is in the "too hard" box, and we pretend it's not part of the problem.

· 8h8 hours ago

@FoxNews is a way bigger problem, not just in propagating falsehoods about vaccines, but for trying to destroy our democracy brick by brick, night after dark night.

7h7 hours ago

Yes, Fox does. But it’s harder to lean on Fox, for various reasons. Also, bear in mind that bitching about social media platforms may help blunt the criticism from the right that they’re “censoring” conservatives.

· 7h7 hours ago

Curious to learn if there is anything that can be directed against their use of Propaganda? A news channel should be just that.

https://archive.ph/jxlEs

Anne ApplebaumVerified account @anneapplebaum

Staff writer @TheAtlantic. Senior Fellow @SAISHopkins, @SNFAgora. Author of GULAG, IRON CURTAIN, RED FAMINE and now TWILIGHT OF DEMOCRACY

Warsaw, London, Washington anneapplebaum. com Joined May 2011

https://archive.ph/MBjhL https:// www. theatlantic. com/magazine/archive/2021/04/the-internet-doesnt-have-to-be-awful/618079/

The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Awful

Our democratic habits have been killed off by an internet kleptocracy that profits from disinformation, polarization, and rage. Here’s how to fix that.

Story by Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev APRIL 2021 ISSUE

The world’s autocracies have long understood the possibilities afforded by the tools tech companies have created, and have made use of them. China’s leaders have built an internet based on censorship, intimidation, entertainment, and surveillance; Iran bans Western websites; Russian security services have the legal right to obtain personal data from Kremlin-friendly social-media platforms, while Kremlin-friendly troll farms swamp the world with disinformation. Autocrats, both aspiring and actual, manipulate algorithms and use fake accounts to distort, harass, and spread “alternative facts.” The United States has no real answer to these challenges, and no wonder: We don’t have an internet based on our democratic values of openness, accountability, and respect for human rights. We don’t have an internet based on our democratic values of openness, accountability, and respect for human rights. An online system controlled by a tiny number of secretive companies in Silicon Valley is not democratic but rather oligopolistic, even oligarchic.

Could these platforms have done more? As a matter of fact, Facebook keeps careful tabs on the toxicity of American discourse. ... Among other things, it created a new ranking system, designed to demote spurious, hyper-partisan sources and to boost “authoritative news content.”

https://archive.ph/ZGBWG https:// www. cnn. com/videos/media/2021/07/16/jake-tapper-peter-doocy-question-lead-vpx. cnn

17 Jul 2021 01:04:23 UTC

'Premised on a lie': Tapper calls out Fox reporter's question

The Lead CNN's Jake Tapper debunked a question by Fox News reporter Peter Doocy at the White House press briefing. Source: CNN

https://archive.ph/1rrqC

Aaron Blake‏Verified account @AaronBlake 16 Jul 2021

We can have a debate about whether the gov't should flag misinformation on Facebook. But the "spying" narrative put forward by Fox's Peter Doocy is nonsense, which 30 seconds of Googling would have revealed.

https://archive.ph/yVinw https:// www. washingtonpost. com/politics/2021/07/16/fox-newss-embarrassing-blunder-white-house-briefing-room/

The Fix Analysis Fox News’s embarrassing blunder in the White House briefing room

Peter Doocy, a Fox News reporter, tries to ask former vice president Joe Biden a question, which is ignored, as Biden leaves a campaign event at Jeno's Little Hungary in Davenport, Iowa, on Jan. 28, 2020. (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post)

By  Aaron Blake Senior reporter July 16, 2021|Updated today at 5:13 p.m. EDT

And reporting suggests that this was what many suggested it might have been in the first place: Carlson reaching out to foreigners (apparently Russians) who were being monitored (as many foreigners are) and getting wrapped up in what’s known as “incidental surveillance.” In other words, Carlson wouldn’t have been the target.

At least with those things, we’re talking about the murky, shadowy world of government surveillance, where it’s difficult to fully prove or disprove something and lines are indeed often pushed or stepped over. The definition of “spying” is also subjective.