An excerpt from the White House press briefing of 12 August 2024, with a Washington Post reporter asking Karine Jean-Pierre about the Trump and Musk meeting on Twitter and what the White House was doing to combat the spread of misinformation and disinformation that would result from such a historic meeting of minds…
WaPo reporter: 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.
Press Briefing by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre | The White House