Biden: Platforms Like Facebook Are ‘Killing People’ With Vaccine Misinformation

Twitter on Monday to condemn Marjorie Taylor Greene's "murderous" vaccine misinformation."Disgraceful? Here's a word -- murderous," Newsom wrote in reply to Greene's earlier tweet. "Your anti-vaccine lies are literally killing Americans.

California Governor Gavin Newsom called out Tucker Carlson and other figures on the right specifically for spreading vaccine misinformation and urged others to do so.

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Emmy Rossum is sharing the first photo of her newborn daughter to encourage others to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The 34-year-old actress took to Instagram on Sunday, posting a shot of herself holding up her baby girl, whose back is to the camera, and kissing her head.

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Selena Gomez has reiterated her frustration with Facebook for allegedly not doing enough to stop the spread of misinformation about the coronavirus and vaccines.The singer expressed concerns last September that the social media platform was a vessel for hate speech, racism and fake news, citing at the time misinformation about US voting.

George Clooney, 60, sweetly escorted his wife Amal Clooney, 43, home from dinner in Lake Como, Italy on Monday, July 19. The Oscar-winning actor was seen helping his stunning wife onto a boat to head back to their home after enjoying a nice dinner at the Grand Hotel Tremezzo. The couple was joined by Amal’s sister Tala Alamuddin and mom Baria Alamuddin for the dinner date, and all four looked magnificent for the late-night out in Italy.

CNN’s Wednesday night town hall with President Joe Biden failed to draw as many total average viewers as programming on MSNBC and Fox News. The event ran from 8 to 9:30 p.m.

CNN’s town hall with President Joe Biden trailed the two other cable news networks in total viewers, drawing 1.46 million viewers.

tweeted to her 65 million followers. “[The Center for Countering Digital Hate] found that 12 people are behind 2 in 3 of all misinformation.”She went on to point out that President Joe Biden and U.S.

Matt Damon spoke out against vaccine hesitancy and misinformation amid a rise in coronavirus cases sweeping across the United States.  With the highly contagious delta variant spreading rapidly, cases in the U.S. are up around 70% over the last week, hospital admissions have climbed about 36% and deaths rose by 26%, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Friday.

The White House has had “regular contact’ with Fox News over vaccine coverage, but the administration isn’t singling the news network.

Joe Biden clarified his comment about the spread of misinformation on social media platforms, drawing pushback from Facebook after the president seemed to suggest that it was “killing people” by letting false claims about the Covid-19 spread across its platform.

Moving Past the Finger Pointing” in which he said “the Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies.”Rosen wrote, “While social media plays an important role in society, it is clear that we need a whole of society approach to end this pandemic. And facts — not allegations — should help inform that effort.

Hydro Covid vaccination centre closed for the final time today. The huge venue has the capacity to administer up to 10,000 jabs per day, but is no longer needed.

President Biden’s assertion that it, and social media sites like it, are “killing people” with misinformation about COVID. In a new statement, Guy Rosen, Facebook’s VP of Integrity, lays out the data behind Facebook’s Friday claim that “the facts show that Facebook is helping save lives.

President Joe Biden lashed out at social media platforms as the conduits for the spread of misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines, reflecting the concern that the White House has over the spread of the Delta variant among the unvacinnated.

President Joe Biden had a clear message for social media platforms like Facebook on Friday: “They’re killing people” with COVID misinformation, he said. Asked by a reporter what message he had for social media giants as misinformation about the coronavirus swirls, Biden said, “They’re killing people.

has recently visited the White House to record a series of videos encouraging the youth in US to get vaccinated against coronavirus. The singer, 18, went on to attend a meeting with President Joe Biden and USA’s top COVID-19 expert, Anthony Fauci.