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Facebook defended itself against US President Joe Biden’s assertion that the social media platform is ‘killing people’ by allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to proliferate. Reuters pic
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WASHINGTON, July 18 Facebook on Saturday defended itself against US President Joe Biden’s assertion that the social media platform is “killing people” by allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to proliferate, saying the facts tell a different story.
“The data shows that 85 per cent of Facebook users in the US have been or want to be vaccinated against Covid-19,” Facebook said in a corporate blog post by Guy Rosen, a company vice president. “President Biden’s goal was for 70 per cent of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4. Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed.”
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday said social media platforms like Facebook “are killing people” for allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to be posted on its platform, as the administration continued criticizing the company.
“They’re killing people. . Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people,” Biden told reporters at the White House when asked about misinformation and what his message was to social media platforms such as Facebook Inc’s.
COVID-19 misinformation has proliferated during the pandemic on social media sites including Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc-owned YouTube. Researchers and lawmakers have long accused Facebook of failing to police harmful content on its platforms.
17 July 2021 - 09:20 By TimesLIVE A healthcare worker administers the Pfizer coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to an elderly woman at her home, in Kuala Langat, Malaysia July 17 2021. Image: REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng
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Dr Prudence Buthelezi, general secretary of the National Health Care Professionals Association, said many chose the latter.