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5 May 2021
The White House said Wednesday President Joe Biden supported social media companies banning more content considered “untrustworthy” on their platforms.
White House press secretary Jen Psaki declined to say during the daily press briefing if Biden supported social media companies continuing to ban former President Trump from their platforms, but she did reiterate Biden’s support for more censorship.
She said Biden believes that social media companies have the “responsibility” to block questionable content.
“His view is that there is more that needs to be done to ensure that this type of misinformation, disinformation, damaging, sometimes life-threatening information is not going out to the American public,” she said.
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Show Transcript SOLEDAD: I M SOLEDAD O BRIEN. WELCOME TO MATTER OF FACT.” VIOLENCE AGAINST ASIANS HAS BEEN SPIKING DURING THE PANDEMIC. AND NOW A DEADLY INCIDENT IS DRAWING NEW ATTENTION TO AN OFTEN UNDERREPORTED PROBLEM. ACCORDING TO STOP AAPI HATE AAPI STANDS FOR ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER IT S RECEIVED NEARLY 3,000 REPORTS OF PEOPLE BEING SPAT ON OR VERBALLY OR PHYSICALLY ATTACKED SINCE LAST SPRING. AAPI IS JUST ONE GROUP TRACKING HATE INCIDENTS, SO THE NUMBER COULD ACTUALLY BE HIGHER. ACTIVISTS SAY RACIST RHETORIC ABOUT COVID-19 MAY BE FUELING THE RISE. WHILE THE MOTIVATION IS NOT CLEAR FOR SEVERAL OF THESE ASSAULTS, THE EFFECTS ARE THE SAME. WE HEAD TO THE BAY AREA TO MEET YOUNG ACTIVISTS TRYING TO STOP THE VIOLENCE. THIS TIME OF YEAR IS LUNAR NEW YEAR, WHICH IS REALLY
The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would limit the ability of any United States president to impose a travel ban on the basis of religion, a move that was welcomed by civil rights advocates as “a major step forward”.
The legislation, known informally as the NO BAN Act, comes in response to former President Donald Trump’s controversial “Muslim ban” that barred travel to the US from several Muslim-majority countries.
The bill, which must also pass in the US Senate to become law, was approved by a 218-208 vote in the House on Wednesday.
“The Muslim ban tore families apart, put lives on hold for years and labelled Muslims, Africans and other targeted people as threatening outsiders,” said Madihha Ahussain, counsel to Muslim Advocates, a US civil rights group.
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