Reporter Asks KJP About ‘Intervening’ To Fight ‘Misinformation’ Ahead Of Trump-Elon Musk X/Twitter Interview

A reporter asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre if President Joe Biden should “intervene” to stop “misinformation” — citing former President Donald Trump’s interview with Elon Musk .

Trump participated in a glitch-plagued X/Twitter event with Musk Monday night that consisted of a two-hour-plus conversation that turned into a “TOTAL DISASTER.”

Ahead of that event, Washington Post White House correspondent Cleve Wootson drew a laugh at Monday’s White House press briefing when he asked if the president would be tuning in.

Wootson then asked about the potential for “misinformation” during that interview and asked “does the White House or the president have in sort of stopping that or stopping the spread of that or sort of intervening in that?”:

CLEVE WOOTSON: I have —

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Oh, I’m so sorry.

CLEVE WOOTSON: You’re fine.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: I’m so sorry. I’m sorry.

CLEVE WOOTSON: You’re fine. I have one more.

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: No, go ahead.

CLEVE WOOTSON: Elon Musk is slated to interview Donald Trump tomor- — tonight on — on X. I don’t know if the president is going to tune in. Feel free to say if he is or not. (Laughter.)

But I — I think that misinformation on Twitter is not just a campaign issue. It’s a — you know, it’s an America issue. What role does the White House or the president have in sort of stopping that or stopping the spread of that or sort of inter- — intervening in that?

Some of that was about campaign misinformation, but, you know, it’s a wider thing, right?

MS. JEAN-PIERRE: Yeah, no, and you’ve heard us talk about this many times from here, about the responsibilities that social media platforms have when it comes to misinformation, disinformation. Don’t have anything to read out from here about specific ways that we’re working on it. But we believe that — that they have the responsibility. These are private companies, so we — we’re also mindful of that too.

But, look, it is — I think it — it is incredibly important to — to call that out, as you are — you’re doing. I just don’t have any specifics on — on what we have been doing internally.

As re- — as it relates to the interview, it’s not something that I’m tracking, and I’m sure the president is not tracking it either.

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