Facebook pushes back against Biden claim that social media is ‘killing people’

Cecilia Kang, The Sydney Morning Herald, 18 July 2021

Facebook has pushed back against the Biden Administration’s denouncing of the social media giant for spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccines, escalating tensions between the Silicon Valley company and the White House. In a blog post, Facebook called for the Biden Administration to stop “finger-pointing” and laid out what it had done to encourage users to get vaccinated. The social network also detailed how it had clamped down on lies about the vaccines, which officials have said…

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