Biden Seeks To Clarify His Claim Facebook Is ‘Killing People’
President Joe Biden is seeking to clarify his claim that Facebook is “killing people” with vaccine misinformation. “I mean precisely what I said,” Biden told reporters on Monday, before adding that he was talking about…
President Joe Biden is seeking to clarify his claim that Facebook is “killing people” with vaccine misinformation.
“I mean precisely what I said,” Biden told reporters on Monday, before adding that he was talking about accounts being responsible for spreading misinformation about COVID-19.
He said, “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.”
The president believes Facebook should not take his remark personally but rather, “that they would do something about … the outrageous misinformation about the vaccine.”
Biden also said he is not “trying to hold people accountable” but “trying to make people look at themselves, look in the mirror, think about that misinformation.”
Watch Biden’s remarks below:
Asked on Friday what his message is to platforms like Facebook, Biden told reporters, “They’re killing people. The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated and they’re killing people,” as IJR reported on.
Facebook pushed back on Biden’s claim, saying in a blog post on Saturday, “The fact is that vaccine acceptance among Facebook users in the US has increased. These and other facts tell a very different story to the one promoted by the administration in recent days.”