.milleridriss: Marjorie Taylor Greene brushes aside data showing terrorist attacks motivated by conspiracy theory extremists were responsible for 119 globally attacks in 2020 — a jump from 6 attacks the year before.
The hearing, titled “Censorship Laundering: How the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Enables the Silencing of Dissent,” was hosted by the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations and Accountability. I was there to testify about the workto prevent people from being persuaded by disinformation and harmful online content.
Greene’s appointment to the House Committee on Homeland Security earlier this year was controversial. As Daniel Strauss of The New Republic wrote in an article earlier this year about the, “If there’s any topic that Greene has used to peddle misinformation and foster fear, it’s national security.
It’s hard to overstate how much online disinformation is circulating. Antisemitism, conspiracy theories, anti-LGBTQ+ hate, and misogynistic content has spiked across platforms. In 2022, the Anti-Defamation League reported that white supremacist propaganda efforts are at theFor much of Thursday’s hearing, there was some rare consensus in the room. No one was in support of censorship as a solution to disinformation.
That statement is so impossibly wrong that it is hard to imagine it needs to be challenged. But when an elected official says something that so clearly contradicts all available evidence, it merits correction. And the facts are absolutely clear.
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