Facebook To Biden: 'We Aren't The Reason Vaccination Goal Was Missed'

[appalachiablue]

Source: MSN/NYT

WASHINGTON — Facebook and the Biden administration engaged in an increasingly rancorous back and forth over the weekend after the administration denounced the social media giant for spreading misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccines.

On Sunday, the surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, reiterated warnings that false stories about the vaccines had become a dangerous health hazard. “These platforms have to recognize they’ve played a major role in the increase in speed and scale with which misinformation is spreading,” Mr. Murthy said Sunday on CNN.

In a blog post on Saturday, Facebook called on the administration to stop “finger-pointing” and laid out what it had done to encourage users to get vaccinated. The social network also detailed how it had clamped down on lies about the vaccines, which officials have said led people to refuse to be vaccinated.

“The Biden administration has chosen to blame a handful of American social media companies,” Guy Rosen, Facebook’s vice president of integrity, said in the post. “The fact is that vaccine acceptance among Facebook users in the U.S. has increased.”...

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/facebook-to-biden-we-arent-the-reason-vaccination-goal-was-missed/ar-AAMhaul

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- 'Majority of Covid misinformation came from 12 people, report finds.' CCDH finds ‘disinformation dozen’ have combined following of 59 million people across multiple social media platforms, The Guardian, July 17, 2021.

.. CCDH, a UK/US non-profit and non-governmental organization, found in March that these 12 online personalities they dubbed the “disinformation dozen” have a combined following of 59 million people across multiple social media platforms, with Facebook having the largest impact.

CCDH analyzed 812,000 Facebook posts and tweets and found 65% came from the disinformation dozen. Vivek Murthy, US surgeon general, and Joe Biden focused on misinformation around vaccines this week as a driving force of the virus spreading.

On Facebook alone, the dozen are responsible for 73% of all anti-vaccine content, though the vaccines have been deemed safe and effective by the US government and its regulatory agencies. And 95% of the Covid misinformation reported on these platforms were not removed...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/17/covid-misinformation-conspiracy-theories-ccdh-report

[montanacowboy]

1. The only reason Facebook exists

is because Zuckerberg couldn't get laid in college (and probably still isn't)

I am sick and tired of this POS and his virus spreading organism - take him to the woodshed Joe it's time to break these mothers up

[appalachiablue]

4. They need to fess up and be split up but

it's a huge challenge given their power, at least now. Monopolies are killing society's health and stability.

[SouthBayDem]

31. In fairness, Zuck is married and has kids now nt

[winstars]

2. "Guy Rosen, Facebook's vice president of integrity," This guy sucks at his job apparently!!!

[SergeStorms]

5. Oxymoronic

Facebook - integrity

[appalachiablue]

6. 'VP of Integrity' says it all!

[SergeStorms]

3. Up yours, Facebook.

That is all. It's no secret how much I loathe Zuckerberg and his monstrous platform.

[Sherman A1]

7. Perhaps not the only reason

But certainly one of them.

[RAB910]

8. I posted and promoted a Pro vax message on FB

I had to go on every hour to delete the anti-vax lies that were posted on it

[Budi]

9. It's not "Just a Dozen" ffs. FB could have stopped the HOAX Whisperer a long damned time ago

FB DID NOTHING.
But out 12 ppl to lay the blame on.

FB is as complicit as those 12.

[Scrivener7]

10. Uhhh... Yes you are, assholes.

[Budi]

11. Add every complicit NEWS MEDIA STATION to those "12"

Media couldn't run the Hoax bullshit fast enough. Think tanks & media personalities that made bank for shoving the drama into every home viewer in the World.

MONEY & MEDIA$$$...They couldn't get enough of it!
24/7 bullshit.

Don't even lay the fault on 12 kooky ppl who were allowed to run their kooky bs on Social Media & MSM all day, every day.

Fking cop out.

Own this mess MEDIA!

"95% of the Covid misinformation reported on these platforms were not removed"

[KS Toronado]

12. Yea FB go ahead and attack The Biden Administration

Don't be surprised to see new laws coming your way.

[Larissa]

13. Facebook was instrumental

. . . in getting Trump elected. The Russians were all over Facebook promoting false info on behalf of Trump. Facebook was paid handsomely for the favor, while Americans ultimately suffered and died during Trump's tenure.

[Gary 50]

21. Yes, but in their defense,

how could Facebook know the Rubles were coming from Russia?

[DallasNE]

14. Facebook: If You Can't Stand The Heat Got Out Of The Kitcher

The fingers are being pointed at Facebook by Facebook in the form of incriminating statistics. In other words, clean up your act.

[certainot]

15. facebook is not the problem. people have choices a click away. dems should be pointing at RW radio,

which dominates those state/red areas and reaches 50 mil a week, much of it in places where the mature audiences don't do social media, and where there are usually no free easy alts a click away. for over a decade most of the most successful russian social media trolling ops piggyback established rw radio repetition. why throw shit on a wall and see if it sticks when there's a ton of shit under the living room rug already?

[DemocraticPatriot]

24. Yes, I agree that right-wing radio probably has more negative influence than social media,

with those who are the most "vaccine resistant" out in rural areas and the south...

[bucolic_frolic]

16. Lyin' corporate PR departments

[paleotn]

17. Facebook has a vice president of integrity? Really?

Maybe it's just me, but that seems kind of weird. In a strange, Orwellian way.

Oh, Mr. VP of Integrity....

On Facebook alone, the dozen are responsible for 73% of all anti-vaccine content, though the vaccines have been deemed safe and effective by the US government and its regulatory agencies. And 95% of the Covid misinformation reported on these platforms were not removed.

Just saying.

[BigmanPigman]

18. I don't remember when I laughed as hard as I did

when reading "vice president of integrity".

[Pepsidog]

19. FU Zuckerberg Scum. Your as bad as Murdoch.

[ArizonaLib]

20. That's the same as saying guns don't kill people

Weak!

[ZonkerHarris]

22. Mark Zuckerberg can go fuck himself with a cactus.

[yaesu]

23. hey facebook, if the shoe fits... I wouldn't use your worthless site if my life depended on it. nt

[elias7]

25. I've quit Facebook as of today

That response is too much, trying to make it about Biden.

Not that I ever used Facebook, but I still could sign in from time to time to check up on some old acquaintances. Not worth it to support that poisonous platform. Zuckerberg is as bad as Murdock for reaping the rewards of his business but not taking any responsibility for the dangers

[bhikkhu]

26. Today I learned - FB has a "Vice President of Integrity"

I never would have suspected. Sounds like one of those job descriptions with failure engineered right in from the beginning. Unless it's just Zuck's idea of a joke.

[Roy Rolling]

27. Me to Facebook

Fuck you. Biden didn’t blame Facebook for vaccine goals. As usual, Facebook is a cheap imitation of news, amateurs performing in the backgroaund in close proximity of real newsmakers like Joe Biden.

Facebook thinks it’s news, so do the deplorables. Everybody else thinks they’re just a money-grubbing advertising peddler.

[Hulk]

28. How about "we aren't the ONLY reason"...

...but our venue is a BIG reason for resistance to the vaccine.....assholes!

[appalachiablue]

29. +1 'we weren't the ONLY reason, but

yeah, we had a huge part' in the spread of this global disaster.

[GB_RN]

32. Biden Never Said That Fecesbook...

Was the reason that we didn't hit 70%. They are diverting from his point that they still continue to allow mis/disinformation about vaccines and COVID-19 to fester on their platform, rather than blocking those that promote it. Fecesbook could very easily take down all of that crap, but they choose not to, simply because it makes Zuckerberg money. It may be a tiny bit in the overall scheme of things, but to him, it's still more money, and that's all that matters at the end of the day.

Screw Fecesbook...

[rockfordfile]

33. traitorbook that colluded with a company against the USA