Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is outraged that the White House is working with Facebook and other social media platforms to halt the spread of Covid disinformation.
Yesterday, during a White House press conference, government spokesperson Jen Psaki explained some of the steps the government was taking.
“We’ve increased disinformation research and tracking within the Surgeon General’s Office. We’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation, we’re working on doctors and medical professionals, to connect medical experts, who are popular with their audiences, with accurate information and boost trusted content. So we’re helping get trusted content out there.”
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Not to Boebert, who re-tweeted a couple of clips of Psaki giving her answers.
“Who decides what is misinformation about an experimental vaccine?” said Boebert. “Is it the same doctors who changed their mind nearly every week for the past fifteen months? Also, Psaki is openly encouraging censorship.”
Who decides what is misinformation about an experimental vaccine?
Is it the same doctors who changed their mind nearly every week for the past fifteen months?
Also, Psaki is openly encouraging censorship. https://t.co/FKeYSdkoWo
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) July 15, 2021
In a later Tweet, Boebert compared Psaki’s comment as, “Sounds a lot like the governments in China and North Korea.”
Sounds a lot like the governments in China and North Korea. https://t.co/ekkXWqjeIL
— Lauren Boebert (@laurenboebert) July 15, 2021
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Yesterday, US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued a 22-page advisory on the harm posed by Covid disinformation.
“I am urging all Americans to help slow the spread of health misinformation during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
“Health misinformation is a serious threat to public health. It can cause confusion, sow mistrust, harm people’s health, and undermine public health efforts. Limiting the spread of health misinformation is a moral and civic imperative that will require a whole-of-society effort.”
His warnings come as states begin to see a rise in the more contagious Delta variant of Covid-19. Yesterday, Los Angeles County said it was bringing back its mask mandate for indoor spaces, a month after fully reopening its economy. The move came following “substantial community transmission”, mainly among the unvaccinated.
Boebert’s latest attempts to criticize anything that comes out of the Biden administration drew plenty of online criticism.
You constantly spout off about things you know nothing about. People who push anti vaxx messaging should be censored, they shouldn’t have a voice.
— HeywoodJ (@madsphotos) July 15, 2021
The actual experts, Bobo. Just like how it’s always worked. When we need an expert on giving people diarrhea, we’ll call you.
— Bruno (@BrunoTheGreat32) July 15, 2021
Probably real scientists. Rather than you.
— Raymond Mills (@Raymond41915819) July 15, 2021
You don’t understand science so we can start there. Since you clearly don’t understand that viruses change and mutate (variants) the facts are over your head. Don’t strain too hard trying to figure out how science is trying to deal with a global pandemic with a changing virus.
— lisamdg (@lisamdg1) July 15, 2021
Evolving knowledge causes sharper minds than yours to change. New information can change the dynamics dramatically. Sorry about all the long words. I can re-do it in GED if you like.
— Nona Jobuzinasa (@jobuzinasa) July 16, 2021
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Mister P
Does this woman ever stop whining and complaining? Does she offer solutions to anything? I would bet she had been vaccinated.
Cam
Of COURSE Republicans would be furious if lying and fraud gets banned. That’s 100% of what they tell their voters.
Roy Moss
Yeah, let’s all listen to the high school dropout who couldn’t figure out how to avoid getting knocked up as a teenager.
man5996853
Rancid f ucking c unt. If only extreme ignorance could cause a person to spontaneously combust.
Roy Moss
If only! That would pretty much eliminate all conservatives from the electorate.
whereshouldistart
I don’t know. Covid seems to be doing a good job of picking-off a bunch of them.
Too bad one of the downsides is the fact that the unvaccinated are also spreading it to those who cannot be vaccinated.
The only way I can see this whole vaccination thing being successful is to somehow convince the batshit crazy righties that this was the left’s plan all along…to only get the “libtards” protected and leave the right-wing dipshits completely vulnerable so we could THIN THE HERD and finally rid ourselves of their stupidity.
You know how much their hatred completely consumes their every waking moment? Why not use it to our advantage for a change?
Reverse psychology works if it’s used correctly.
jcool
@whereshouldistart
or…..we could let them keep killing each other
mgp18
The night school GED could better use her time baking cookies for her 4 kids back in the mountains and making sure her cowboy dude keeps his junk in his pants,
rbernard
Simply stated, Lauren Boebert is an uneducated idiot and unqualified to be a congresswomen.
There should be a competency test required for anyone running for elected office. They must be required to have to have read our Constitution and Declaration of Independence and pass the tests to prove they understand what these documents mean.
These same candidates would also would be required to pass aptitude tests to prove they are literate and competent enough to legislate and qualified to represent their constituents.
We have to stop sending unqualified people to congress that don’t know our history nor our foundational laws.
Patrick
I LOVE your ideas!!!
jhmotjr
I’ve thought this exact same thing for years, but never wrote my Congressperson. PLEASE write yours and offer your suggestion; it’s really a terrific idea. It might not stop candidates with no scruples, but it will definitely help get better-quality people in office.
Thad
This is a freedom of speech issue. And those of us who love health, science, and our fellow Americans need to speak truth.
Some kind of patriot, wanting Anericans sick and dying.
duke4172
This Homophobic Bitch and Marjorie Taylor Green need to be voted out of office in 2022
TedV
Look, the people now getting sick and dying are people like Boebert, who have chosen ignorance and willfully play Russian roulette with their own health. I’m OK with that.
Do your thing, virus, do your thing.
BaltoSteve
The only problem with just letting the virus work is that the human immune system not only kills viruses but it also acts as a mutagenic factor for them as well. So as these yahoos get infected, the virus continues to mutate and more variants are created. And considering the delta variant contains a mutation that helps infect even vaccinated people, there is a chance it will mutate past the point of where the current vaccines are ineffective. This is why everyone who is eligible to get the vaccine needs to get the jab.
TheAbsoluteTRUTH
Oh yes because Facebook, Twitter, google and YouTube the arbiters of truth (as they see it)… you guys that are for this would make good chinese or russian citizens because thats what their governments do. The information police they control what you hear and how it’s presented. Some believers in democracy you guys are.
GentlemanCaller
You can’t really be as stupid as you sound, right? It’s just an act to get troll-points from Q?
Den
Once again, making yourself a laughingstock, and clearly not understanding what the first amendment protects and does not protect. But that is what we expect from an infantile right winger like you.
You like lies, and like TO lie. That is all anyone needs to know about you.
But as I have some small measure of empathy for the willfully ignorant and intellectually lazy…hope you are not too stupid to have gotten vaccinated. But please go back to the right wing heterosexual sewer where you belong.
Josh in OR
I know, right!? I mean, WE ALL KNOW that COVID was made by invisible Chinese gnomes who live in our closets. It’s a well known fact that “THEY” don’t want WE THE PEOPLE to know about them, since people knowing about the gnomes erodes their power over the Jewish moneylenders who run Hollywood! And without the COVID gnomes keeping the Jewish agenda under control, Microsoft will be able to fulfill Nostradamus’ prophecy about Microsoft implanting tracking chips in our genitals in order to adrenochrome our babies from birth!
Aliens!
Lizards!
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Except you can’t run in to a crowded theater and scream “FIRE!” when it’s not true. Why? Because your disinformation can cause harm to others and potentially get people killed.
Mack
What it all comes down to is the extreme right wing dimwits doesn’t want Biden’s administration to be successful. They don’t care how many Americans die as long as he fails in his job. THIS IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
jcool
the same way trump lied and denied, preferring re-election over the lives of americans. look how that worked out for him
Patrick
Call her office, 202 225-4761 & tell her what a selfish liar she is.
Tombear
Let the unvaccinated die! If you are to ignorant to take the vaccine unless you have a bonafide medical reason or are underage and you make the CHOICE not to receive the vaccine you deserve to die and take your archaic vaccine logic with you. I worked as a pharmacist for 25 years. The vaccine is safe.