Surgeon General: Facebook’s Efforts to Combat Alleged COVID-19 Misinformation Is ‘Not Enough’

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Continuing a public feud with Facebook over whether the company is addressing alleged “misinformation” about COVID-19, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said Sunday that Facebook hasn’t done enough.

“It’s not enough,” Murthy told Fox News about Facebook, adding that “misinformation is still spreading” and social media companies have to move to stop it. “We are still, despite some of the actions that they have taken, seeing significant spread of misinformation.”

Murthy then argued that “this health misinformation is hurting people’s health, it’s costing them their lives,” adding he’s “asking these companies to step up and take responsibility for what’s happening on their sides.”

A day earlier, Facebook released a statement that pushed back against allegations the company isn’t doing enough to combat alleged misinformation relating to COVID-19. The data, according to Facebook, showed that 85 percent of its users have been or want to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

In the statement, Vice President of Integrity Guy Rosen said that Facebook’s data tells “a very different story to the one promoted by the administration in recent days.”

Rosen then appeared to take a shot at the Biden administration having missed its self-imposed goal of having 70 percent of American adults being vaccinated by July 4.

“Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed,” Rosen said.

The executive’s comment came after President Joe Biden, White House press secretary Jen Psaki, and Murthy last week called on Facebook, primarily, to combat alleged misinformation regarding vaccines.

Biden, in a comment to reporters on July 16, was more direct, claiming Facebook’s continued allowance of alleged “COVID disinformation” is “killing people.” The president didn’t elaborate on his comment before he departed to Camp David for the weekend.

Psaki just hours before said that individuals who post alleged misinformation should be banned from not just Facebook but other social media platforms.

BY JACK PHILLIPS

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