While the White House works to pressure Facebook and other platforms to fight vaccine misinformation, the president blamed them for COVID deaths.
President Biden took his administration’s critical stance toward big tech up a notch on Friday, when he said that Facebook and other companies were “killing people” by not doing more to combat COVID vaccine misinformation on their platforms. “The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” Biden said to a reporter outside the White House. “And they’re [the tech platforms] killing people.” Reporter: „What’s your message to platforms like Facebook?“ President Biden: „They’re killing people.“ pic.twitter.com/z9QPC2DO3t The comment comes amid increased efforts by the White House to pressure tech companies to do a better job policing anti-vaccine content shared by their users. Earlier Friday, White House press secretary Jen Psaki referenced the issue while speaking with reporters, calling the fight against false information about coronavirus vaccines “a life or death issue.
