Minnesota Governor Tim Walz told Fox News that he never claimed there was “no guarantee to free speech” when it came to “misinformation” or “hate speech.”
“Fox News Sunday” host Shannon Bream noted Walz’s remarks from a 2022 MSNBC interview, “You’ve said there’s no guarantee of free speech for misinformation or hate speech,” Bream told Walz.
“But first of all, the Supreme Court was very clear in a unanimous 2017 decision that hate speech is protected, that’s the kind of stuff that needs to be protected – stuff none of us like to hear,” she continued.
“But more importantly, who gets to decide on the issue of what misinformation is?” she asked.
Walz responded with a word salad, claiming he was talking about “censorship coming in the form of book banning in different places.”
“We’re seeing attempts in schools,” Walz claimed.
“The issue on this was the hate speech and the protected hate speech — speech that’s aimed at creating violence, speech that’s aimed at threats to individuals. That’s what we’re talking about in this.”
“The decision on that, society decides on a lot of this, the idea of someone going on and threatening someone’s life or a child’s life online,” he added.
“I don’t think any of your viewers think that that is something that should be acceptable.”
However, Bream quickly pushed back: “No. No. No. That’s not misinformation,” she said.
“There’s a distinction, you would say, though, between something like a threat and misinformation?” she pressed Walz.
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