THEY HAVE IT ON TAPE! Kevin McCarthy Told GOP Leaders Twitter and Big Tech Needed to Strip Accounts from Fellow GOP Lawmakers — AFTER CUTTING VIDEO AGAINST CENSORSHIP!

Rachel Maddow leaked a private phone call on her show on Thursday night of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy with Trump-hating lunatic Liz Cheney on January 10, 2021.

On January 10, 2021, Kevin McCarthy spoke with several GOP House leaders including Liz Cheney who was third-in-line in the House Republican Caucus at that time.

During the call, McCarthy told Liz Cheney that he would counsel President Trump Trump to resign.

From the call:

Kevin McCarthy: “I think [impeachment resolutions] will pass, and it would be my recommendation you (President Trump) should resign… What he did is unacceptable. Nobody can defend that and nobody should defend it.”

McCarthy also indicated that he believed Twitter and Facebook should delete the accounts of lawmakers who were supporting Trump’s claim of a rigged election. “We can’t put up with that,” he said. “Can’t they take their Twitter accounts away, too?”

Jonathan Martin, national political correspondent for The New York Times, joined Rachel Maddow about to discuss his new book with New York Times colleague Alex Burns. Marin told Rachel Maddow that Kevin McCarthy wanted Twitter to suspend his fellow Republicans from their platform.

Here is Jonathan Martin tonight with Rachel Maddow.

https://youtu.be/c9uE2YtSYcY

For the record — Kevin McCarthy has posted numerous tweets condemning Twitter censorship.

While pushing for it on his fellow party members!

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022/04/tape-kevin-mccarthy-told-gop-leaders-twitter-big-tech-needed-strip-accounts-fellow-gop-lawmakers-cutting-video-censorship/

Good for the republic tho

Rob Reiner asserts that 'A vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy Democracy'

Rob Reiner issued a tweet on Thursday in which he declared that voting for Republican politicians amounts to a vote for the destruction of democracy.

"It couldn’t be more simple. A vote for Republicans is a vote to destroy Democracy," Reiner tweeted.

Richard Grenell responded to the post by calling Reiner "an intolerant meathead," a jab that appears to be a reference to Reiner's role on the television series "All In the Family."

https://www.theblaze.com/news/rob-reiner-vote-for-republicans-is-vote-to-destroy-democracy

Censor in chief? Obama says content moderation doesn't go 'far enough’ to stop disinformation

"But while content moderation can limit the distribution of clearly dangerous content, it doesn’t go far enough," Obama said.

Speaking at Stanford University on Thursday, former President Barack Obama discussed the role of social media in the public discourse and asserted the need for companies to play a greater role in regulating the content on their platforms.

"I’m convinced that right now one of the biggest impediments to doing all of this, indeed, of the biggest reasons for democracies weakening is the profound change that’s taking place in how we communicate and consume information," Obama said.

The former president began by lamenting the business model of social media companies, insisting that such firms profited off of "inflammatory, polarizing content" because of its alleged ability to attract engagement. "It’s that in the competition between truth and falsehood, cooperation and conflict, the very design of these platforms seems to be tilting us in the wrong direction."

He went on to assert that an unfiltered flow of information interwoven with disinformation could blur the line between them for many Americans. "All we see is a constant feed of content where useful factual information and happy diversions, and cat videos, flow alongside lies, conspiracy theories, junk science, quackery, White supremacist, racist tracts, misogynist screeds. And over time, we lose our capacity to distinguish between fact, opinion and wholesale fiction. Or maybe we just stop caring," Obama said, before offering vaccine hesitancy as an example.

"People are dying because of misinformation," he bemoaned.

Obama prefaced his proposed solutions to online disinformation by calling himself a "First Amendment absolutist," adding he believes "in most instances the answer to bad speech is good speech." He nonetheless asserted that the First Amendment "doesn’t apply to private companies like Facebook or Twitter, any more than it applies to editorial decisions made by The New York Times or Fox News" and that such companies had the authority to regulate their content.

"But while content moderation can limit the distribution of clearly dangerous content, it doesn’t go far enough," the former president insisted, adding that those pushing disinformation have learned to push the limits of a company's moderation guidelines.

Obama then demanded greater transparency from Big Tech firms on their standards and their means of spreading viral content. "Beyond that, tech companies need to be more transparent about how they operate. So much of the conversation around disinformation is focused on what people post. The bigger issue is what content these platforms promote," he said.

The 44th commander-in-chief concluded that portion of the speech with an appeal to media consumers to broaden their perspectives through reading material with which they disagree, insisting it would help reduce the demand for inflammatory content and ultimately help to combat polarization in the country.

"[O]ur opinions aren’t fixed, and that means our divisions aren’t fixed either if we can agree on some common baseline effects and agree on some common baseline of how we debate and sort out our disagreements," Obama said.

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/barack-obama-proposes-curb-disiniformation-stanford-speech

DOJ: Alleged COVID fraudsters charged after raking in nearly $150 million through elaborate schemes

WASHINGTON (DOJ) – The Department of Justice Wednesday announced criminal charges against 21 defendants in nine federal districts across the United States for their alleged participation in various health care related fraud schemes that exploited the COVID-19 pandemic. These cases allegedly resulted in over $149 million in COVID-19-related false billings to federal programs and theft from federally-funded pandemic assistance programs. In connection with the enforcement action, the department seized over $8 million in cash and other fraud proceeds.

“The Department of Justice’s Health Care Fraud Unit and our partners are dedicated to rooting out schemes that have exploited the pandemic,” said Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Polite, Jr. of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division. “Today’s enforcement action reinforces our commitment to using all available tools to hold accountable medical professionals, corporate executives, and others who have placed greed above care during an unprecedented public health emergency.”

“This COVID-19 health care fraud enforcement action involves extraordinary efforts to prosecute some of the largest and most wide-ranging pandemic frauds detected to date,” said Director for COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Kevin Chambers. “The scale and complexity of the schemes prosecuted today illustrates the success of our unprecedented interagency effort to quickly investigate and prosecute those who abuse our critical health care programs.”

https://breaking911.com/doj-alleged-covid-fraudsters-charged-after-raking-in-nearly-150-million-through-elaborate-schemes/