Biden Says Facebook is ‘Killing People’ with Vaccine Misinformation

According to President Joe Biden, platforms like Facebook are killing people by allowing Covid-19 vaccine misinformation on their services.

This past Friday White House press secretary Jen Psaki said Facebook needs to do more to fight misinformation regarding coronavirus vaccines.

It was last week that the Biden administration started flagging problematic posts that spread misinformation for Facebook.

“I mean they really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and that’s — they’re killing people,” Biden explained.

“We’re dealing with a life or death issue here and so everybody has a role to play in making sure there’s accurate information,” Psaki said. “They’re a private sector company. They’re going to make decisions about additional steps they can take. It’s clear there are more that can be taken.”.

“We are regularly making sure social media platforms are aware of the latest narratives dangerous to public health that we and many other Americans are seeing across all of social and traditional media,” she said. “We work to engage with them to better understand the enforcement of social media platform policy.”

Psaki noted the spread of a false narrative that says coronavirus vaccines cause infertility.

“This is troubling but a persistent narrative that we and many have seen, and we want to know that the social media platforms are taking steps to address it,” Psaki said. “That is inaccurate, false information.”

“As you all know, information travels quite quickly,” she said. “If it’s up there for days and days and days, when people see it — it’s hard to put that back in a box.”

A Facebook spokesperson responded, “We will not be distracted by accusations which aren’t supported by the facts. The fact is that more than 2 billion people have viewed authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines on Facebook, which is more than any other place on the internet. More than 3.3 million Americans have also used our vaccine finder tool to find out where and how to get a vaccine. The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives. Period.”

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