White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki started making a lot of noise yesterday By acknowledgment They have been in “frequent contact” with Facebook to “mark misinformation” so that Facebook can delete information about the Wuhan coronavirus that they believe is “misinformation” and ban users.Today, she redoubled her efforts Say People who are banned on one platform should be banned on all platforms, and this is a particularly disturbing thing when the government is constantly contacting social media to flag and ban people.
Then Joe Biden Made a crazy comment On his helicopter journey to the White House, Facebook was “killing”. “What do you want to say about platforms such as Facebook?” “They are killing people,” Biden said. “Our only epidemic is people who have not been vaccinated. They are killing people.”
After this accusation, Facebook is now fighting back.
#rest: Facebook responds to Biden’s “They are killing” remarks >> pic.twitter.com/CIB8tPTwdr
-Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) July 16, 2021
“We will not be distracted by allegations that are not supported by facts,” Facebook said in a statement they released. “The truth is that more than 2 billion people viewed authoritative information about COVID-19 and vaccines on Facebook, more than any other place on the Internet. More than 3.3 million Americans also used our vaccine finder tool to find Where and how to get the vaccine. The facts show that Facebook is helping to save lives. Period.”
That is the wrong response. This has nothing to do with whether the information they provide is good or bad. It’s not about whether they can save lives. Most importantly, the state does not have the right to censor the information Americans hear, but this is exactly what they want to do.
The government cannot determine what the truth is. Of course, according to their own standards, now the misinformation Joe claims that Facebook is killing people and needs to be banned because it is misinformation.
Facebook also accused the White House of trying to blame Facebook for the White House’s failure to achieve its vaccination goals.
New: FACEBOOK officially added this statement (next tweet), accusing the White House of using Facebook as a scapegoat for failing to achieve its vaccine goals.
The official request is anonymity, but I think it’s worth putting it here because it may show how Facebook’s leadership views this issue>
-Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) July 16, 2021
FACEBOOK OFFICIAL: “In private exchanges, surgeons praised our work, including our efforts to introduce people to COVID-19. They know what they are doing. The White House is looking for a scapegoat for failing to achieve the vaccine goal.”
-Dylan Byers (@DylanByers) July 16, 2021
The White House did miss their July 4th target number. But it’s not the responsibility of Facebook or the government to get people vaccinated—it’s up to people, it’s their choice, and everyone has enough changes to vaccinate if they want. The government needs to stop trying to force people.
Facebook should learn a lesson in this regard. Not that they will pay attention to it. Even if they have closed and closed posts in the past-such as posts claiming that the laboratory may leak the virus-if they do not fully comply with the requirements of the Democrats, the Democrats will eat them and spit them out. But this does not stop them from continuing with the government Work closely together.
