Facebook says it should not be blamed for U.S. failing to meet vaccine goals
By Jan Wolfe and David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook on Saturday defended itself in opposition to U.S. President Joe Biden’s assertion that the social media platform is “killing of us” by allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to proliferate, saying the knowledge inform a novel story.
“The info reveals that 85% of Facebook clients inside the US have been or want to be vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19,” Facebook said in an organization weblog put up by Guy Rosen, a corporation vp. “President Biden’s goal was for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4. Facebook is not the rationale this goal was missed.”
COVID-19 misinformation has unfold in the midst of the pandemic on social media web sites along with Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet Inc-owned YouTube. Researchers and lawmakers have prolonged accused Facebook of failing to police harmful content material materials on its platforms.
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