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US President Joe Biden on Monday toned down his comments about Facebook after accusing it of “killing people” by not stopping Covid vaccine misinformation, but he still urged the world’s largest social network to do more.
Her remarks followed the president’s own comments essentially walking back his blunt outburst from Friday.Biden added that he had learned a dozen people were largely responsible for disseminating false news about the vaccines. “My hope is that Facebook, instead of taking it personally — that somehow I’m saying Facebook is killing people — that they would do something about the misinformation, the outrageous misinformation about the vaccine,” he said.Biden had delivered an unusually harsh rebuke last week when he assailed Facebook’s handling of widely spread misinformation about vaccinations and said “this is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.
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