though it s contradictory to what the white house is saying now. there seems to be a political element to this. when the white house is its information they deem unhelpful i think that s extremely concerning part. in exchange with our peter ducey, the press secretary at the white house at the white house isn t actually censoring the contents, but we are flagging it for social media providers. listen to what, she said. we don t take anything down. we don t block anything. facebook and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. said the white house may not be pushing the delete button itself, per se, but if you tell in organization to do something based on your investigation, an they go ahead and do it, at the very least or in the of command. they re making these big tec companies and extension of the federal government. certainly the federal governmen is prohibited, but outsources, to have a just one step away to
really where the president accused facebook of killing people. chris: so white house press secretary jen psaki took up this issue, this new fight this week, and pushed back on the charge that what the white house and president biden are doing verges on sensorship censorship. here she is. we don t take anything down. we don t block anything. facebook and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. our point is there is information that is leading to people not taking the vaccine and people are dying as a result. chris: karl, two questions. first of all, is there anything wrong with a white house, this white house calling out a social media platform like facebook for some of the posts that are there? that s question one. and two is: why is it this goes to something that susan brought up. why is it that these vaccines which president trump is largely
accused facebook of killing people. chris: so white house press secretary jen psaki took up this issue, this new fight this week, and pushed back on the charge that what the white house and president biden are doing verges on sensorship censorship. here she is. we don t take anything down. we don t block anything. facebook and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. our point is there is information that is leading to people not taking the vaccine and people are dying as a result. chris: karl, two questions. first of all, is there anything wrong with a white house, this white house calling out a social media platform like facebook for some of the posts that are there? that s question one. and two is: why is it this goes to something that susan brought up. why is it that these vaccines which president trump is largely
think it should be your biggest concern, is the number of people who are dying around the country because they re getting misinformation. is there any concern that the things that you re trying to block or have taken down might someday turn out to be we don t take anything down. we don t block anything. and that s about how that went today. meanwhile, the administration is sending teams out into the field to try to get a handle on these latest outbreaks. the request of the nevada governor, we are deploying more than a hundred people to the state to help enhance vaccine access and support vaccine outreach efforts. we re providing cdc s tech expertise, including on genetic sequencing and outbreak response to missouri to help the state in its response. politico pointing out tonight the challenge for the biden administration noting that outreach maybe less than welcome in some parts of our country where anti-vax and
so is there any concerns that things that you re trying to block or have taken down might someday we don t take anything down. we don t block anything. facebook and any private sector company makes decisions about what information should be on their platform. griff: fox news peter doocy asking white house press secretary jen psaki about censorship as the wows crack town on white house cracks down on covid-19 vaccination posts online. david spunt has more. reporter: when it comes to a fight with big tech, white house officials would say bring it on. many of those officials are doubling, even tripling down on those comments yesterday on the south lawn made by president biden about facebook. listen. what s your message to platforms like facebook? they re killing people. i mean, they really look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. and that s and they re killing people. reporter: the delta variant