Pres. Biden didn't mince words when asked for his message to platforms like Facebook about COVID-19 misinformation.
It also comes amid the government's current push to boost stalling vaccination rates while the delta variant takes hold of the country's unvaccinated, in what Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky called"a pandemic of the unvaccinated" on Friday.
The Biden administration has doubled down on their efforts to get more people vaccinated -- particularly after the countrySurgeon General Vivek Murthy speaks at a ceremony honoring care workers, July 13, 2021, in Santa Fe, N.M. The surgeon general's new advisory specifically digs into social media platforms as having greatly contributed to the"unprecedented speed and scale" of misinformation's spread and Murthy calls on technology and social media companies to"take more responsibility to stop online spread of health misinformation."
It argues 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.ABC News' Sasha Pezenik, Molly Nagle and Justin Gomez contributed to this report.
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