Jen Psaki called the “disinformation space” on social media platforms one of the “core issues” behind Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss to President-elect Donald Trump as she called for “laws to change” to address the issue.
Psaki joined Katie Couric on her Next Question podcast on Thursday to give a post-election analysis and both pointed to a number of issues in how the Democratic Party has sold itself to the American people. While Psaki called for major reforms to how social media platforms are held to “account,” she also argued the Democratic Party was “undervaluing” platforms like Joe Rogan’s podcast.
“One of the things that’s changed even since I got involved in politics is just the rise of the percentage of people who get their information off of platforms that have no fact checking mechanism and no accountability for having disinformation spread,” Psaki said.
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