As we ve covered on this show, the u.s. saw a spike in book banning this year. most of the stories usually involved banning certain books, many that center on black or lgbtq stories from school and school libraries. now they re taking it to local public libraries. the texas tribune says a library system shut down for three days so six librarians could conduct a, quote, thorough review of every children s book in their collection. the directive from the county coming after a number of texan republican lawmakers targeted hundreds of books for review this year. many parents, librarians and authors are against it calling it censorship and some are fighting back. to talk about all of this are we re proud to welcome deborah caldwell stone.
Standing in our way is misinformation. millions of people don t have access to being a really information because on social media platforms and other tech platforms, we re seeing the rampant spread of misinformation and it is costing people their lives. and get this, some republican lawmakers are attacking the white house for trying to crack down on anti-vaccine lies. they call it censorship. senator josh that you bidefeating that the biden administration is using facebook to impose its covid-19 speech code. louisiana has one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country with just 36% of the state fully vaccinated, well short of the 70% to 85% experts say is needed to create so-called herd immunity. a state health officer explains how they are trying to fight misinformation. we re really trying to work hard to engage trusted messengers. at this stage in the vaccine
About canada editing trump out of the home alone 2 film in my assessment is that you knew that the president or don junior would not be able to resist complaining about it. we re going to hear the tweets about this, right? and that we were going to have to listen to people calling it censorship. i mean, we should have expected it, but if they just left him in the film, we wouldn t have to endure another tweet tirade. so, rick, am i right? when we look to presidential responses or first family responses relative to don junior, to anything with complete absurdity being a ten and one being important, where does this one rank? it s absurd. i mean, it s all designed to get trump attention. in fact, most people wouldn t have recalled that donald trump was ever in this movie, all seven seconds. it was worse when they edited him out of the passion of the christ, but anyway, that was a different [ laughter ] oh, man. so, look, we re just i don t know.
New york city mayor bill diblasio dishing it right back to donald trump and the countdown to 2020. the latest remarks after donald trump called out bill diblasio s track record in new york. here is his response. hey, con don, i saw your video and you have really low energy and get your facts wrong. shannon: stacy abramson together 2020 run herself, wait until late fall to decide, she might miss part of the campaign season if she delays. a big weekend on fox news. tune in at 7:00 pm for pete buttigieg and then the host of the next revolution speaks to donald trump. trump derangement syndrome. coastal elites call it censorship. hollywood identity politics and cultural watchdogs.
It s not fair. it s not fair because if you look at social media today, 67% of adults get their news from social media. it has become the town square. what we ve found in so many different places, remember what happened to the conservatives when they were a shadow band? first twitter said they did not do it, now jack admitted it did happen with their algorithm and it happened not based upon what those individuals were doing on twitter but who followed them and they never explained it. bringing them before us in getting transparency changes twitter s actions. harris: is it too strong to call it censorship? i don t think so. take a perspective here. if you google the california republican party two weeks before the primary election, it said our ideology was nazi-ism