A European Commission official predicted this week at a Davos 'disinformation' panel that hate crime laws could soon be coming to the United States.
FORMER CNN HOST BRIAN STELTER SLAMMED FOR HOSTING DAVOS PANEL ON DISINFORMATION: ‘REASON WHY HE’S UNEMPLOYED'
Conservative outlet The First also took a dig at Moulton for"silently smiling" as she made the remarks. The panel discussed the push and pull of efforts to counter so-called misinformation and disinformation while avoiding censorship and having arbiters declaring universal truths. Jourová herself noted at one point that inconvenient truths for politicians did not constitute misinformation, a point often made by conservatives stateside who bristle at liberals flatly declaring certain viewpoints to be inherently false.
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