'President Biden’s goal was for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4. Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed,' a top Facebook exec argues.
After coming under fire from President Joe Biden and the U.S. surgeon general, who both said last week that misinformation on social media is killing Americans, Facebook Inc. had a blunt response over the weekend: Don’t blame us.
Last Thursday, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy called vaccine misinformation on social media “a serious threat to public health.”That same day, White House press secretary Jen Psaki singled out Facebook specifically, telling reporters it “needs to move more quickly to remove violative posts.” Biden took that a step further Friday, saying flat out that Facebook and other social-media companies are “killing people.
“While social media plays an important role in society, it is clear that we need a whole-of-society approach to end this pandemic. And facts — not allegations — should help inform that effort,” Rosen said. “The fact is that vaccine acceptance among Facebook users in the U.S. has increased.” The White House did not publicly comment on Facebook’s response Sunday, but Murthy, appearing on CNN stuck to his message. “I’ve been very consistent in what I’ve said to the technology companies,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union.” “When we see steps that are good, we should acknowledge those. But what I’ve also said to them, publicly and privately, is that it’s not enough. That we are still seeing a proliferation of misinformation online.
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