Biden says social media ‘killing people’ with virus fiction


Biden talks to the media as he departs for a weekend visit to Camp David from the White House in Washington, US. Biden’s comments came shortly after the head of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the US is seeing a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ in parts of the country where inoculation rates are low. — Reuters

US President Joe Biden said on July 16 that social media networks are “killing people” by allowing the spread of misinformation about coronavirus vaccines.

“Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated,” Biden said after he was asked about his message for tech companies as he departed the White House on Friday. “And they’re killing people.”

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