White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany pushed back against Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's request that people 'leave employees' out of the fact-checking debate, saying the White House would continue to question the people on the team.
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
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