{"id":596872,"date":"2021-07-19T13:05:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=596872"},"modified":"2021-07-19T13:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-19T17:05:23","slug":"biden-says-facebook-isnt-killing-people-days-after-appearing-to-accuse-company-of-doing-just-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-says-facebook-isnt-killing-people-days-after-appearing-to-accuse-company-of-doing-just-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden Says \u2018Facebook Isn\u2019t Killing People\u2019 Days After Appearing To Accuse Company Of Doing Just That"},"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\">32<\/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%2Fbiden-says-facebook-isnt-killing-people-days-after-appearing-to-accuse-company-of-doing-just-that%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=596872&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Screen-Shot-2021-07-19-at-12.42.01-PM-e1626712981165.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that Facebook isn\u2019t killing people, just days after appearing to accuse the social media company of doing just that.<\/p>\n<p>Biden spoke to reporters briefly on Friday as he left the White House and was asked if he had a message to platforms like Facebook regarding COVID-19 misinformation. The administration announced last week that it is <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/15\/covid-19-jen-psaki-white-house-facebook\/\">working with<\/a> Facebook to flag \u201cdisinformation\u201d surrounding the virus and the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re killing people,\u201d Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/16\/joe-biden-current-pandemic-among-unvaccinated-misinformation-facebook-killing-people\/\">said Friday<\/a>. \u201cI mean, they\u2019re really \u2013 Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they\u2019re killing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president appeared to backtrack on these comments Monday, telling reporters that \u201cFacebook isn\u2019t killing people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden suggested his Friday comments weren\u2019t specifically accusing Facebook of killing people, but rather were in reference to the 12 individuals allegedly responsible for the majority of COVID-19 misinformation. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jul\/17\/covid-misinformation-conspiracy-theories-ccdh-report\">report by<\/a> the Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) cited by the White House found that 65% of misinformation on Facebook comes from just 12 people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFacebook isn\u2019t killing people. These 12 people are out there giving misinformation, anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it,\u201d the president explained after giving remarks on the economy. \u201cIt\u2019s killing people. It\u2019s bad information.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/12\/joe-biden-dnc-vaccine-misinformation-covid-19-coronavirus\/\">(RELATED:&nbsp;REPORT: The DNC Wants Phone Companies To Police Text Messages For Vaccine Misinformation)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Biden said he hopes <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/07\/18\/facebook-exec-blasts-white-house-biden-scapegoat-misinformation\/\">Facebook<\/a> doesn\u2019t take \u201cit personally\u201d and instead chooses to \u201cdo something\u201d to combat the misinformation. Facebook pushed back on Biden\u2019s earlier comments over the weekend and provided data it argued shows the platform isn\u2019t responsible for people not getting vaccinated and subsequently dying from the virus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile social media plays an important role in society, it is clear that we need a whole of society approach to end this pandemic,\u201d Guy Rosen, Facebook\u2019s vice president of integrity, <a href=\"https:\/\/about.fb.com\/news\/2021\/07\/support-for-covid-19-vaccines-is-high-on-facebook-and-growing\/\">wrote in a<\/a> blog post Saturday. \u201cAnd facts \u2014 not allegations \u2014 should help inform that effort. The fact is that vaccine acceptance among Facebook users in the US has increased. These and other facts tell a very different story to the one promoted by the administration in recent days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden, when asked if Facebook has done enough in stopping the spread of alleged misinformation, said he wasn\u2019t sure. Rosen argued in the blog post that the social media company taken \u201caction against\u201d COVID-19 misinformation when it pops up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be completely honest with you, I don\u2019t know that they did anything today, up to over the weekend, I don\u2019t think they had. But I don\u2019t know,\u201d Biden said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden told reporters Monday that Facebook isn\u2019t killing people, just days after appearing to accuse the social media company of doing just that.Biden spoke to reporters briefly on &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-596872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=596872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}