US President Joe Biden on Friday criticised social media platforms like Facebook for spreading misinformation in regards to the coronavirus and vaccines, as his administration has blamed them for stalling US vaccine charges.

Biden was requested by reporters on the White House on Friday afternoon what his message is to social media platforms on coronavirus misinformation.

“They’re killing people,” Biden stated when requested by reporters what his message was to social media platforms like Facebook on the unfold of false and deceptive claims in regards to the virus and the protection of vaccines that stop it.

“I mean they really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and that’s -they’re killing people,” Biden stated on the south garden of the White House.

Biden’s feedback on Friday afternoon echoed these of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Rochelle Walensky, who warned earlier within the day that COVID-19 is “becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated.”

“We are seeing outbreaks of cases in parts of the country that have a low vaccination coverage, because unvaccinated people are at risk,” Walensky advised reporters throughout a public well being briefing.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki throughout her every day press briefing stated that Facebook was not doing sufficient to cease the unfold of false info on the coronavirus.

Psaki added that the White House made quite a lot of suggestions to Facebook and different platforms to deal with the unfold of misinformation, together with eradicating 12 individuals who she stated had been accountable for virtually 65 % of anti-vaccine misinformation on social media platforms.

This comes a day after US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Thursday labelling well being misinformation an “urgent threat” amid the Biden administration”s push to get extra individuals vaccinated.

Murthy stated that misinformation is amongst a spread of explanation why some Americans aren’t getting vaccinated in opposition to COVID-19 regardless of vaccinations being extensively out there.

“Modern technology companies have enabled misinformation to poison our information environment with little accountability to their users,” Murthy stated throughout an look within the White House briefing room on Thursday. “They’ve allowed people who intentionally spread misinformation — what we call ”disinformation” — to have extraordinary reach.”

The White House is asking Facebook and different social media firms to be extra aggressive in eradicating “harmful” posts that unfold disinformation and flagging posts that unfold info, in accordance with White House press secretary Jen Psaki.

“We are regularly making sure social media platforms are aware of the latest narratives dangerous to public health that we and many other Americans are seeing across all of the social and traditional media and we work to engage with them to better understand the enforcement of social media platform policies,” Psaki advised reporters Friday.