{"id":118419,"date":"2021-07-19T17:33:26","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=118419"},"modified":"2021-07-19T17:33:26","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:33:26","slug":"facebook-isnt-killing-people-biden-walks-back-attack-over-vaccine-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/facebook-isnt-killing-people-biden-walks-back-attack-over-vaccine-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"&#x27;Facebook isn&#x27;t killing people&#x27; \u2014 Biden walks back attack over vaccine lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>President Biden walked back some of his criticism of Facebook, saying he meant to accuse a dozen social media platform users, not Facebook itself, of &quot;killing people.&quot;<\/li>\n<li>Biden added that he hopes Facebook will do more to fight &quot;the outrageous misinformation&quot; about coronavirus vaccines being spread on its platform &quot;instead of taking it personally.&quot;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Joe Biden walked back some of his criticism of Facebook, saying Monday he meant to accuse a dozen users, but not the social media platform itself, of spreading deadly lies about Covid vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Facebook isn&#x27;t killing people,&quot; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>Biden added that he hopes Facebook will do more to fight &quot;the outrageous misinformation&quot; about coronavirus vaccines being spread on its platform &quot;instead of taking it personally that somehow I&#x27;m saying Facebook is killing people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Biden appeared to say just that: Asked outside the White House what his message was to platforms like Facebook regarding Covid disinformation, Biden said, &quot;They&#x27;re killing people.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I mean they really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and that&#x27;s \u2014 they&#x27;re killing people,&quot; Biden said Friday.<\/p>\n<h2>CNBC Politics<\/h2>\n<p>Read more of CNBC&#x27;s politics coverage:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Schumer wants Senate to push forward on infrastructure, budget plan this week<\/li>\n<li>Trump says rioters at Jan. 6 Capitol invasion wanted what he wanted<\/li>\n<li>U.S. and allies to blame China for massive cyberattack on Microsoft<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Facebook had reacted defensively, saying through a spokesperson that it &quot;will not be distracted by accusations which aren&#x27;t supported by the facts.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>&quot;The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives,&quot; the spokesperson added.<\/p>\n<p>The tiff came just a day after White House press secretary Jen Psaki announced that the Biden administration had started &quot;flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,&quot; and that the government had proposed changes to major social media platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The same day, U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy declared that Covid misinformation poses an urgent public health threat. He specifically called out social media companies&#x27; product features and algorithms that can drag people &quot;deeper and deeper into a well of misinformation.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>At the White House on Monday, Biden jumped at the chance to clarify his remarks when asked about the controversy by reporters.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m glad you asked me that question,&quot; Biden said after delivering a speech on the state of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Biden said that just before making the accusation that Facebook is &quot;killing people,&quot; he had read a report that 60% of the misinformation surrounding Covid vaccines had come from just a dozen social media accounts.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Facebook isn&#x27;t killing people, these 12 people are out there giving misinformation. Anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. It&#x27;s killing people. It&#x27;s bad information,&quot; Biden said.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My hope is that Facebook, instead of taking it personally that somehow I&#x27;m saying Facebook is killing people, that they would do something about the misinformation, the outrageous misinformation about the vaccine.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;That&#x27;s what I meant,&quot; the president said.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook did not immediately respond to CNBC&#x27;s request for comment on Biden&#x27;s most recent remarks.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 CNBC&#x27;s Christina Wilkie contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/07\/19\/facebook-isnt-killing-people-biden-says-as-he-walks-back-attack-over-vaccine-lies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden walked back some of his criticism of Facebook, saying he meant to accuse a dozen social media platform users, not Facebook itself, of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&#x27;Facebook isn&#x27;t killing people&#x27; 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