Pres. Biden tries to clarify comment that Facebook is 'killing people.'
President Joe Biden's attempted to clean-up his comment that Facebook is"killing people" on the heels of the surgeon general warning of misinformation around COVID-19.publicly rejected President Joe Biden's message to the platform that it's"killing people" by allowing the spread of vaccine misinformation, even as COVID-19 infections rise and vaccinations fall around the U.S.
Biden was referring to research the White House pointed to at a press briefing last week when Surgeon General Vivek Murthy warned in his first advisory of the Biden administration of the threat of misinformation to public health.President Joe Biden speaks about the economy and his infrastructure agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, July 19th, 2021.
"Facebook isn't killing people. These 12 people are out there giving misinformation, anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. It's killing people. It's bad information," Biden continued."My hope is that Facebook -- instead of taking it personally -- that somehow I'm saying Facebook is killing people, that they would do something about the misinformation -- the outrageous misinformation -- about the vaccine. That's what I meant.
The controversial comment came one day after the surgeon general put out a new advisory arguing that misinformation, particularly on social media websites like Facebook, has hindered vaccination efforts, sown mistrust, caused people to reject public health measures, use unproven treatments, prolonged the pandemic and put lives at risk.President Joe Biden talks to the media as he departs for a weekend visit to Camp David from the White House in Washington, D.C., July 16, 2021.
However, while Facebook has said how many people have viewed authoritative information on vaccines, the platform has not said how many users have viewed misinformation.
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