The Biden administration is not impressed with the social media giant's approach to COVID-19 misinformation.
was pretty clear about what he thought of Facebook’s approach to COVID-19 misinformation. The social media giant, he said, is “killing people”—a declaration he walked back slightly after the company, telling CNN that while he “meant precisely” what he said about the platform allowing “bad information” to take root, the company itself isn’t directly causing mass death.
isn’t personally killing people, of course, and logging on to Facebook or Instagram isn’t directly exposing Americans to the coronavirus. But itexposing them to loads and loads of bogus information, lies, and conspiracy theories that have had a deleterious impact on the effort to put the pandemic behind us. Pandemic misinformation is surging on social media, as theTuesday. And while Facebook is certainly not the only platform plagued by such pernicious content, it is the most prominent.
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