This week in US politics: Biden takes on Facebook, cosies up to Fox News, to battle vaccine hesitancy
The President tells reporters that Facebook is "killing people", betraying his frustration over misinformed vaccine hesitancy. But he's approaching another barrier â political bias â by appealing to Fox News.
23 July 2021
Welcome to your weekly run-down of all the big news, strange rules and interesting happenings from the world of US politics.
Joe Biden campaigned on making politics boring, and since taking office, he's been called boring by everyone from Donald Trump to his top White House staffers (yes, even by us, too).
So this week it was bracing, like stepping out into a stiff winter breeze, to see the President answer a question about vaccine misinformation spreading on social media like this: