The progressive left is all about controlling speech, especially when it comes to social media — which explains why they detest Elon Musk so much.
Case in point, former Biden spokesperson Jen Psaki advocated for new laws to control social media Thursday on her Next Question podcast while analyzing the 2024 election with Katie Couric.
Psaki was talking about a lack of accountability for “having disinformation spread,” the oddity being that those who reserve the right to define what is disinformation are always talking about controlling it.
“One of the things that’s changed even since I got involved in politics is just the rise of the percentage of people who get their information off of platforms that have no fact-checking mechanism and no accountability for having disinformation spread,” Psaki said, before suggesting that local print and local TV have a higher degree of accountability than social media platforms
“That is crazy… and how does it change, how are people held to account? Laws have to change, I don’t even know the entire answer to it but that seems to me to be a core issue,” she added.
Jen Psaki says “laws have to change” because people are getting information from social media instead of TV
She also claims there’s no fact checking mechanism. False. Community Notes isn’t perfect but it does a far better job than the MSM “fact checkers” pic.twitter.com/wPMzDPCji9
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) November 15, 2024
Democrats continue to grapple with the impact President-elect Trump’s 3-hour-plus sit down on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast had on the election and Psaki suggested there was an “undervaluing” here by Democrats.
“I don’t think Joe Rogan deserves 100% credit for Donald Trump being elected, but it was a misunderstanding of kind of also how people are getting their information and an undervaluing of some of those platforms that Trump was doing that don’t really exist on the other side,” Psaki said.
Social media users were quick to remind Psaki of her hypocrisy when it comes to “disinformation.”
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the story, as seen on Elon Muck’s free speech platform X:
Jen Psaki: “We need laws to stop disinformation on social media.”
Also Jen Psaki: pic.twitter.com/HEjKssBxus
— Bonchie (@bonchieredstate) November 15, 2024
Jen Psaki is accusing Tulsi Gabbard of being a Russian asset.
Meanwhile : pic.twitter.com/cxlYaJ1rUN
— Thomas Musket ⓒ (@ThomasMusket) November 15, 2024
Lmao right… pic.twitter.com/OFX4QKzU0J
— Declaration of Memes (@LibertyCappy) November 15, 2024
She’s pushing for a law that would force everyone to get their information exclusively from the news. I stopped watching mainstream media back in 2012, and I’ve become ten times more informed than she is about what’s really happening in the world as I’m not stuck with morons…
— Sarah Adams (@TPASarah) November 15, 2024
Her entire premise is flawed.
Local TV is held to a higher standard because it uses public airwaves via license.
Web based platforms do not use any public spectrum and do not need to follow the same rules as broadcast TV.
Get rekt Psaki
Circle back when you figure this out.
— Brick Suit (@Brick_Suit) November 15, 2024
Community notes fact checks on X more then democrats get fact checked on TV.
— Dr. Interracial (@billysandytodd) November 15, 2024
Communists depend on censorship to maintain power!
— Xi Van Fleet (@XVanFleet) November 15, 2024
Jen Psaki can’t compete in the free market of ideas.
— Albert Latham (@albert1776) November 15, 2024
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