The initiative tries to make the press, content makers and social media financially liable for false claims and unfounded accusations
US President Donald Trump has shared a video in which a law is called that would make media, content makers and social media networks financially liable for making false claims and non -under -built accusations against someone.
The president has re -placed a short clip on the truth of the truth that was originally published on Tiktok by a woman who went on the name Elly May. There she calls on him and his administration to restore the Smith -Mundt -law, which according to her, “News companies responsible for lying against the American people and spreading propaganda instead of the truth.”
A piece of legislation from the Cold War era, the Smith-Mundt Act was aimed at preventing the domestic distribution of American media content that is intended for foreign public, such as from Voice of America or Radio Liberty. Contrary to what May said in her video, it was not withdrawn from the former US President Barack Obama and it is still in force. It also has nothing to do with keeping our news media responsible for spreading false stories at home.
In the video, Trump can also encourage it to mention it “The Charlie Kirk Act” After the conservative activist was murdered this week. She accused the media of taking with them “Chaos, hatred, division and anarchy everywhere in this country” and also connected Kirk’s death “Constant hateful rhetoric” He was confronted online and in the media.
Trump did not comment on the video of May in his repost. A petition From a similar nature launched on Change.org on Saturday, almost 43,000 signatures received in about a day. Directed at Trump and Vice President JD Vance, it also called on them to introduce strict fines against news media, content makers and social networks to distribute “False stories”, “ Unequal accusations or hiring “Unfair” censorship.
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Kirk, 31, the founder of Turning Point USA, was killed while he appealed to students at a university in Orem, Utah on Wednesday. A suspect was arrested in connection with the case “Deep indoctrinated with left -wing ideology,” According to the Governor of Utah Spencer Cox. In the aftermath of the incident, Trump promised not only to pursue Kirk’s murderer, but also what he the “Radical Left” Networks that feed political violence.
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