The task force is being launched by Vice President Harris and will be co-chaired by the Gender Policy Council and the National Security Council, the White House announced.
Comment: The "Gender Policy Council"? Really?
Recent mass shootings in Buffalo, N.Y., and Uvalde, Texas, highlighted the link between online harassment and extremist acts, an administration official said. In both cases, the gunmen were reported to have posted hateful content and laid out plans for their attacks online ahead of the shootings.
Within 180 days, the task force will provide service recommendations for how the federal government, private sector and civil society can better combat online harassment and abuse.
The task force will not be focused on particular platforms, but rather the role of platforms and social media more generally, administration officials said.
The effort aims to tackle health and violence concerns stemming from online harassment and abuse. Attorney General Merrick Garland and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy will both be at Thursday's inaugural meeting.
Tennis champion Sloane Stephens, who has spoken publicly about the harassing messages she received after exiting the US Open, will also be in attendance.
The launch of the task force comes after the administration last month separately suspended plans for a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) disinformation board weeks after it was announced, following fierce pushback from Republicans and civil rights groups alike.
Administration officials said they are mindful of First Amendment issues in launching the new task force, but said the group is particularly focused on online activities that are illegal conduct, including cyber stalking or the distribution of non-consensual intimate images or targeted harassment.
Comment: Sure.
Comment: They just never quit. The totalitarian pathocrats in the US government will stop at nothing to create a "Dictatorship of the Antiracists/Antitransphobes/Antimisogynists/etc." Their Woke commissars are not concerned about actual harassment and abuse. Such practices are acceptable, if they are directed against their political enemies. They are out to punish crimethink, and they just rely on people assuming they have nothing but the best intentions. But their manipulations of language are the tell. The words they use don't mean what you think they mean. It's doublethink, and they do not have good intentions.