hello everyone welcome back to kudlow
i'm larry kudlow
turns out by the way donald trump is
right if big tech can censor him
it can censor you too and as it turns
out the bite administration is colluding
with facebook
to do just that fox news correspondent
peter ducey
questioned madame saki today earlier
peter what you got
larry we had a lot of questions about
this briefing from yesterday where
the surgeon general came out to say
there's new surgeon generals warning
something you normally have for
things to eat or drink or smoke there's
a new one about
social media posts the white house
thinks that
misinformation about covid 19 vaccines
things posts about things like the
vaccine is going to make you infertile
that are obviously not true
are the number one reason that people
are not getting vaccinated
anymore the press secretary yesterday
made a point to say because
of that they are flagging posts to
facebook
to try to cut down on it so i followed
up today
for how long has the administration been
spying
on people's facebook profiles looking
for vaccine
misinformation well that was quite a
loaded and inaccurate question
um which i would refute well peter first
of all
as you know we're we're in a regular
touch with with a range of media outlets
as as let me finish as we are
as we are in regular touch with social
media platforms
this is publicly uh open information
people sharing information
online just as you are all reporting
information on your news stations
and so now the white house is insisting
they are not going through
post by post profile by profile but
rather looking at publicly available
data about the things that are driving
trends on facebook then calling silicon
valley if they don't think
that misinformation is being taken down
fast enough and that was that
larry just that phrase
calling silicon valley uh why is that
not
big brother is watching you why is that
not crossing the line
you know into the states and larry i i
asked
jen about that later on in our exchange
i said i think a lot of people's concern
is that this is big brother and
she kind of then backed off of the we
are not monitoring people and she said
i think people care more about people
dying of covid if they're not vaccinated
than the federal government monitoring
posts and so
i they would never call themselves big
brother but they admit that this is
happening because they have decided
that it is more important getting people
vaccinated
than it is i the expectation of privacy
if there is any on social media
and one more up here because i know
you're you're covering this hard um
this idea that they they the white house
or frankly any white house has a
monopoly on something called
information you know and in particular
regarding covet and the pandemic
the science quote unquote which of
course has changed a thousand times
why she thinks she is the repository of
the right
information that's a great question
but they think this is so serious a few
minutes ago president biden was walking
out
to marine one listen to how gravely he
is describing the situation about this
misinformation on facebook
what's your message to platforms like
facebook
they're killing people i mean it really
they look the only pandemic we have is
among the unvaccinated
and that's and they're killing people
and so with that it is going to be
fascinating to watch in the next couple
of months as the midterm elections
approach
will democrats still continue to give
facebook for example
tens of millions if not billions of
dollars in
advertising to micro target people that
they need in swing districts
if they are in fact as the president
said killing people
larry good point pete peter just said
you're having way too much fun down
there
way too much fun we appreciate you
coming on thanks
see you soon buddy