Biden should apologize for falsely accusing a US company of ‘killing people’

Published July 21, 2021 3:18pm ET



There are many fair criticisms one can make of Facebook and other Big Tech platforms. But accusing them of killing people simply isn’t one of them.

Yet that’s exactly what President Joe Biden did on Friday. When a reporter asked him what his message was for social media platforms such as Facebook regarding alleged vaccine misinformation, the president said, “They’re killing people.” He continued, “I mean, they really — look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and that’s — they’re killing people.”

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