“The View” co-stars battled over the limits of free speech in a tense fight on Wednesday’s show.
The ABC daytime talk show discussed Meta’s decision on Tuesday to end its fact-checking program in what many have seen as a “win” for free speech.
Some on the panel, however, were concerned whether this would lead to more “hate speech” on social media, which Sunny Hostin claimed was a different issue.
“There’s a difference between free speech and hate speech,” Hostin said. “We know that. Free speech, I welcome, I think everyone welcomes. It’s your constitutional right. When you start delving into hate speech, which is what is happening all over social media, there’s a problem with that, when you start delving into misinformation and disinformation, there’s a problem with that.”
“Everybody was a pizza maker. As a child I felt that that was offensive to me, so, I understand, I have empathy for people who don’t like it when you are making fun of their group in a nasty way,” Behar said. “The people who are doing this are not from minority groups, they’re from majority groups.”
Griffin pushed back, insisting “every person at the table gets hate speech directed at them.”
“I guess no one gets to finish a sentence here anymore. Okay,” Behar remarked as Griffin rolled her eyes.
Griffin called out the panel for they “all act like we’re for free speech when it’s the things we like,” to which Goldberg insisted was “not true.”
At the end of the panel, Griffin criticized Hostin for suggesting that President-elect Donald Trump’s first election in 2016 influenced a rise in hate speech.
“There’s never been a social media platform that’s existed where you can’t call people names,” Griffin said. “It’s not because Donald Trump got elected, now you can call people names on social media, that’s just not true.”
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