False claims about vaccines has proliferated on the social network, and on other sites including
Twitter and
YouTube, says presidentSee all our
Coronavirus coverageJoe Biden says
Social Media platforms such as
Facebook “are killing people” for allowing disinformation about coronavirus vaccines to be posted on its platform, as the administration continued criticising the company.
“They’re killing people. ... Look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people,” the US president told reporters at the
White House on Friday, when asked about disinformation and what his message was to social media platforms such as Facebook.