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He sees the platform’s lack of action around the anti-vax posts it hosts as the smoking gun. Like Biden, many see Facebook’s news feed as a place of popular misinformation, believing its algorithm helps promote and spread dangerous anti-scientific content, and pressure on Facebook and others is growing. In a letter sent to the platforms in March, attorney generals from 21 US states said that “anti-vaxxer” accounts on Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and Twitter reached more than 59 million followers.
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US President Joe Biden is troubled at the growing numbers of unvaccinated Americans who are becoming infected with the Delta variant, especially in the south.