Conservative fierce that some viewpoints aren t welcome on social media but censored. Hawley calling it an assault on the first amendment. This kind of coordination between big government and the big monopoly corporation is scary stuff and censorship. The status is independent private companies, it looks more in danger here. Bill: jackie heinrich begins coverage from the north lawn. What are they saying about this? good morning, bill. The white house says misinformation is keeping people from getting vaccinated and they are asking social media companies to crack down on what they are calling super spreaders on their platforms. We ve increased disinformation tracking within the surgeon general s office and tracking problematic posts in facebook that spreads the information. It seemed to indicate the administration through the surgeon general s office is actively monitoring and flagging what they deem to be problematic posts. The advisory from the surgeon general s page indicates they re
Each the national past time in the form of baseball s allstar game becomes a hostage to the politics of the day. We will talk with the house minority leader in just a bit. White house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from philadelphia. Good evening, peter. Good evening, bret. The president argued that wednesday made it easier to vote early or boy mail because there was a global pandemic. That was good, but that when republican lawmakers try to limit certain pandemic era provisions, because they say they are concerned about voter fraud, that is historically bad. This is election subversion. It s the most dangerous throat voting in the integrity of free and fair elections in our history. Peter: the president s problem is with states hoping to tighten election laws and require voter i. D. Including texas. They want to make it so hard and inconvenient that they hope people don t vote at all. That s what this is about. Texas republicans can t do anything though as long a