Jen Psaki assures child reporter that there are 'certainly steps the government can take' to protect kids from misinformation online

Brett T. | 4:40 PM on May 12, 2022

We were debating for a bit whether or not to put quotation marks around “child” reporter, considering the maturity of our White House correspondents — remember CNN’s Jim Acosta playing keep-away with the microphone with a young female aide? We’re not sure why there was a child reporter there Thursday, but this young person wanted to know how the White House could prevent kids from encountering misinformation on the internet. They’ll probably grow up to be a White House correspondent, seeing how the assumption in the question was that the White House has an obligation to do something about it.

Psaki said there are “certainly steps the government can take,” but she could start by taking down some of her tweets, like the ones claiming the Hunter Biden laptop story was Russian disinformation. But we are curious what these steps the government can take are, and if Nina Jankowicz, the Mary Poppins of disinformation, has any role to play in it.

A child reporter asks Jen Psaki how the White House will "prevent children from getting misinformed from the internet."

PSAKI: "There's certainly steps the government can take…" pic.twitter.com/VWN8DA9Joe

— Townhall.com (@townhallcom) May 12, 2022

She’s even patronizing to the children.

— Matt Edward (@Cardinal_Bowler) May 12, 2022

She'll end her tenure the way it started – by answering nothing.

— Adam (@MillennialAK1) May 12, 2022

What misinformation are kids getting from the internet … that men can get pregnant? That critical race theory isn’t being taught in public schools? That you can’t say “gay” in Florida?

We’ve already seen just how poor of a job Twitter itself did with its “misinformation” tools appended to the Hunter Biden story and to any tweet about COVID-19 and the vaccine — the last thing it needs is for the government to “help.”