{"id":37833,"date":"2021-07-19T18:02:32","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:02:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37833"},"modified":"2021-07-19T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-20T01:02:32","slug":"biden-walks-back-criticism-of-facebook-covid-19-misinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=37833","title":{"rendered":"Biden walks back criticism of Facebook COVID-19 misinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden on Monday softened his criticism that platforms like Facebook are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mppsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqyddqt_pcjhmmjqjbhlqlcjqcqh.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mppsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqyddqt_pcjhmmjqjbhlqlcjqcqh.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1626820241526000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE4-dUerm3APJ1XJ5eONKdYYkqcOQ\">&#8220;killing people&#8221; with misinformation<\/a>\u00a0about the coronavirus pandemic, saying he wishes the company would do more to stop the spread of inaccurate information.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Facebook isn\u2019t killing people, these 12 people are out there giving misinformation. Anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it. It\u2019s killing people. It\u2019s bad information,&#8221; Biden told reporters after giving remarks about the economy, referencing a study that showed a dozen accounts on Facebook are responsible for the majority of misinformation about the coronavirus vaccine seen on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My hope is that Facebook, instead of taking it personally, that somehow I\u2019m saying Facebook is killing people, that they would do something about the misinformation, the outrageous misinformation about the vaccine,&#8221; Biden added. &#8220;That&#8217;s what I meant.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Biden on Monday softened his&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37834,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37833\/revisions\/37834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}