{"id":32840,"date":"2021-03-15T15:25:22","date_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32840"},"modified":"2021-03-15T15:25:22","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T22:25:22","slug":"blumenthal-bashes-facebook-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=32840","title":{"rendered":"BLUMENTHAL BASHES FACEBOOK, TWITTER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) slammed Facebook and Twitter Monday over their handling of anti-vaccination content specifically targeting pregnant women after the platforms responded to the senator\u2019s letter pushing them to clamp down on the misinformation campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook and Twitter\u2019s playbook is out-of-date, worn-out, and woefully inadequate toward addressing the horrifying abuse and disinformation that continues to spread like wildfire on their platforms,\u201d Blumenthal said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The senator\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mcpsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvccqpnwd_djstcchphftmtcsrmrgt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mcpsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvccqpnwd_djstcchphftmtcsrmrgt.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1615932923079000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF22Tkd1nbS2MRxhYmfhGO_wbU8gA\">wrote to the social media giants<\/a>\u00a0last month calling for them to follow through on commitments to remove coronavirus vaccine misinformation in light of reported incidents of anti-vaccine campaigns targeted and harassing pregnant women with false information.<\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal said the platforms\u2019 \u201cvague content moderation policies, ineffective fact checking, inconsistent enforcement, and meaningless labels are cold comfort to the women continuously assailed by vile anti-vaccine hate and life-threatening falsehoods.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) slammed Facebook&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32841,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32840\/revisions\/32841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}