After saying \u201cthey\u2019re killing people\u201d with vaccine disinformation, now he says, \u201cFacebook isn\u2019t killing people.\u201d<\/b>
\nLast week, President Biden lobbed a rhetorical grenade against social-media platforms, saying that sites such as Facebook are to blame for the millions of Americans who continue to refuse to get COVID-19 shots. \u201cThey\u2019re killing people\u201d by hosting COVID misinformation and allowing it to spread, Biden told reporters on Friday. But on Monday, he took it back. \u201cFacebook isn\u2019t killing people, these 12 people are out there giving misinformation,\u201d Biden said, referencing a report that found the bulk of vaccine misinfo on Facebook came from just a dozen individuals. \u201cAnyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. It\u2019s killing people. It\u2019s bad information.\u201d Reacting to Biden and the report, a Facebook spokeswoman told the Washington Post on Monday: \u201cWe permanently ban Pages, Groups, and accounts that repeatedly break our rules on COVID misinformation, and this includes more than a dozen Pages, Groups, and accounts from some of the individuals referenced in the press briefing.\u201d Still, the social-networking giant isn\u2019t necessarily off the hook: Biden added that he hopes Facebook will do more to fight \u201cthe outrageous misinformation\u201d about COVID-19 vaccines being spread on the social network.<\/p>\n