US President Joe Biden has said that social media disinformation about Covid-19 and vaccinations is "killing people". "They're killing people.
The only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they're killing people," he told reporters at the White House as he left for a weekend at the presidential retreat in Camp David.
The White House is turning up the pressure on social media companies, especially Facebook, to weed out what officials say is widely spread disinformation on coronavirus vaccinations.
According to US health officials, a current spike in Covid-19 deaths and illnesses around the country is almost exclusively hitting people who remain unvaccinated. "There is a clear message that is coming through: this is becoming a