{"id":594687,"date":"2021-07-17T06:35:50","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T10:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=594687"},"modified":"2021-07-17T08:19:22","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T12:19:22","slug":"facebook-responds-to-bidens-claim-theyre-killing-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/facebook-responds-to-bidens-claim-theyre-killing-people\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook Responds to Biden\u2019s Claim They\u2019re \u2018Killing People\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffacebook-responds-to-bidens-claim-theyre-killing-people%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=594687&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-facebook\">Facebook<\/a> on Friday responded after President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a> claimed the technology giant is \u201ckilling people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will not be distracted by accusations which aren\u2019t supported by the facts. The fact is that more than 2 billion people have viewed authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines on Facebook, which is more than any other place on the internet,\u201d\u00a0Facebook spokesman Kevin McAlister told news outlets.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMore than 3.3 million Americans have also used our vaccine finder tool to find out where and how to get a vaccine. The facts show that Facebook is helping save lives. Period,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, asked what his message would be to platforms Facebook regarding \u201cCOVID disinformation,\u201d Biden said: \u201cThey\u2019re killing people. I mean, they\u2019re really\u2014I mean, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they\u2019re killing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden didn\u2019t elaborate and only answered the one question before departing Washington to travel to Camp David for the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The White House has made waves this week for harshly criticizing Big Tech platforms and pushing censorship of information officials deem \u201cmisinformation,\u201d or misleading or false information, regarding COVID-19, particularly vaccines.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3905866\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-with-reporters-1200x800-1.jpg\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-3905866\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/biden-with-reporters-1200x800-1.jpg\" alt=\"Epoch Times Photo\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/noscript><\/figcaption>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden talks to the media as he departs for a weekend visit to Camp David from the White House in Washington on July 16, 2021. (Jonathan Ernst\/Reuters)<\/figure>\n<p>Surgeon General Vivek Murthy decided to devote <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-administration-pushes-social-media-companies-to-combat-covid-19-misinformation_3903450.html\">his first advisory<\/a> to the topic, claiming\u00a0it \u201cposes an imminent and insidious threat to our nation\u2019s health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>White House press secretary Jen Psaki acknowledged that the administration is communicating their preference to have certain people punished for posting alleged misinformation and on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/biden-administration-pushes-social-media-companies-to-combat-covid-19-misinformation_3903450.html\">said<\/a> users \u201cshouldn\u2019t be banned from one platform and not others \u2026 for providing misinformation out there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Google, Facebook, and Twitter have not responded to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans decried the pressure from Big Tech and promised to take action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook has become a tool of the Biden Administration to censor Republicans and silence their critics. I am working with Leader McCarthy and the members of the newly formed Big Tech Task Force to ensure that this blatantly biased censorship is stopped immediately,\u201d Rep. Jake LaTurner (R-Kan.) said in a statement, referring to House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe White House is colluding with Facebook to censor Americans. This is an attack on the First Amendment,\u201d added Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Friday responded after President Joe Biden claimed the technology giant is \u201ckilling people.\u201d \u201cWe will not be distracted by accusations which aren\u2019t supported by the facts. 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