Facebook says it should not be blamed for US failure to meet vaccine targets Reuters

By Jan Wolfe and David Shepardson

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook (NASDAQ 🙂 on Saturday defended U.S. social media platform Joe Biden’s assertion that the social media platform is “killing people,” allowing a proliferation of disinformation about coronavirus vaccines, saying the events tell a different story.

“The data show that 85% of U.S. Facebook users have had or want to be vaccinated against COVID-19,” Facebook said on the corporate blog of Guy Rosen, the company’s vice president. “President Biden’s goal was to get 70% of Americans vaccinated by July 4. Facebook is not the reason that goal is lost.”

COVID-19 misinformation has spread during the pandemic on social media sites Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet (YouTube owned by NASDAQ 🙂 Inc.). Investigators and lawmakers have long accused Facebook of failing to police harmful content on its platforms.

“People are dying. … Look, the only pandemic we have is among those who haven’t been vaccinated. And people are dying,” Biden told reporters at the White House on Friday about misinformation and what his message was to people. Media platforms like Facebook.

The company has established rules against making specific false claims about COVID-19 and vaccines, and says people provide reliable information on these issues.

The Delta variant of the coronavirus is the most prevalent strain in the world today, due to the proliferation of deaths in the United States that are almost completely unaccounted for, U.S. officials said Friday.

COVID-19 U.S. cases https://graphics.reuters.com/world-coronavirus-tracker-and-maps/countries-and-territories/united-states% 70 rose last week and 26% of deaths with low vaccine rates appearances in some parts of the country.