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:
Biden rows back on Facebook killing people comment
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US Surgeon General doubles down on Facebook-bashing amid vaccination information blame game
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Biden does a u-turn and insists Facebook ISN T killing people after attacking Mark Zuckerberg
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