White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany criticized Twitter for fact-checking President Donald Trump, but not Chinese propaganda and called the deployment of the feature"completely incoherent."
Trump is expected to sign an executive order against social media companies on Thursday, two days after Twitter applied a fact-check to two of the president's tweets about mail-in ballots. After being called out for a double standard, Twitter applied a fact-check to a Chinese government spokesman's tweet claiming SARS-CoV-2 originated in the United States.
Earlier this week, and again on Thursday, administration officials targeted Yoel Roth, Twitter's head of site integrity, over tweets he published in 2016 and 2017. The tweets called Trump a"racist tangerine," likened senior counselor Kellyanne Conway to Joseph Goebbels, the head of Nazi propaganda, and said there were"actual Nazis in the White House."
White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany speaks to the press on May 15 in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, D.C. On Thursday, she criticized Twitter for fact-checking President Donald Trump at a time when they weren't fact-checking Chinese propaganda that claimed the new coronavirus originated in the United States.
"Twitter wants this to be the standard ... and yet we don't get to ask who the fact-checkers are ... we will ask who the fact-checkers are," McEnany told Fox News.Read more
To bring down the Trump and Bolsonaro , it is enough that no social network, Twitter, Facebook and others, accepts advertising for them, they would never be reelected. They are the worst presidents we've ever had!!
Wait... so they *do* want fact-checking, just not for them...
I’m honestly shocked she didn’t blame JoeNBC.
It’s call fake news! A president in the north of the Americas practices it quiet often!
Boo frighten who ! If he didn’t change facts or tell lies there would be no fact check
LOL! Let's have Twitter fact-check Russians, actually used social media to put realDonaldTrump in office -- not China, which Trump praised and thanked for controlling the virus but he now blames for his own sad pandemic response: 100,000 Americans dead & 40 million jobless.
😂😂😂 trump found the puppet of all puppets!!! 😂😂😂😂
Anyone who is dumb enough to accept a job offer from Trump is not smart enough to do the job.
Ask the blond genius if it's the chinese that run our country. Geez lady, don't you know by now that russia does?
McEnany's criticisms aren't germaine, as they are those of a partisan nature! Who asked you McEnsny?!
Kayleigh McEnany is nothing but another puckered up mouthpiece for Trump's use. She is totally disingenuous. Ignore her biased opinion!
China is not responsible for trump rage tweeting that a former senator committed murder without evidence
How about if they just fact checked her?
Accountability is a fickle creature. Sometimes it doesn’t like its reflection.
Trump is easy to fact check he lies all the time
Chinese propaganda doesn’t run the country, unfortunately trump the pathological racist liar does. Well he does until Jan 19.
Why doesn't she take a seat and stop making a jacka** of herself PressSec
😄😄😄
KAG
*YAWN* let’s see how long that vapid Succubus keeps her job.
classic whataboutery, straight from the Putin/Soviet playbook.
She is a crook and frankly as president he should have 18,000 documented lies
Of course they do.
Poor Trumpy is peeing in his diapers and scared his account will be yanked.
Is she REALLY this clueless or is she just pretending? Over 300,000,000 people look to the President for TRUTH and real leadership not lies and conspiracy theories. We don't look to China for ANYTHING but cheap goods.
Um... a little ironic, no?
I haven't seen the President Xi Jinping's twitter account. How many followers does he have?
Your serious?
He’s the supposed leader of the free world sweetie....... We used to hold his position to a higher standard.
I think she suffers from lead poisoning. Every argument she makes is illogical and flat.
You know that joke about blonds ? Does it apply here or has that train 🚂 left the station ?
since trump vouched for Xi and the 'Chinese' propaganda, isn't fact checking trump the same as fact checking the Chinese.
Dead Americans! Distract! defl etc! Lie lie lie!
She should be fact-checked. The Trumps make a buck in and because of China: they’ll protect China
Twitter did fact check China!!!! Is she stupid? every day all we hear is nonsense
Well if the Chinese were running for President they would fact check the Chinese all political. GOD bless Donald J Trump.
Trump did that to himself. It would be nice to stop telling lies and purposefully creating chaos. Don't think that's possible at this point.
QRichard7 she's a god... just wrecking these media journalists :)
Twitter does not have that capability, it can not practice free thought. NYGovCuomo JoeNBC VP44 RobertBaer GStephanopoulos
Kayleigh, you’re so pretty...that’s not a compliment.
This young woman is seriously screwed up.
Hmm... fact checking China. - is that racist?!?
The only fool who believes China is trump. He believed them over our intel on covid. The rest of us who have critical thinking skills do not think China is a legit source for any info.
Lala land all of them!
Spot on Kayleigh!
Twitter is Chinese propaganda.
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