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Facebook News Consumers Are More Anti-Vaccine Than Fox Viewers | Gizmodo

Joe Biden might want to consider re-backpedaling after his accusation that social media companies [Facebook] are “killing people” by spreading vaccine conspiracies and bunk. A new study suggests that Facebook’s news consumers are inordinately unwilling to get the covid-19 vaccine.

Facebook fired back at President Biden’s comment earlier this month with a from Carnegie Mellon University’s Delphi Group. It reported that, of millions of Facebook users, 85% of U.S.-based users were vaccinated or planned to get vaccinated. “President Biden’s goal was for 70% of Americans to be vaccinated by July 4,” they sniffed. “Facebook is not the reason this goal was missed.” Biden later that misinformation is killing people.

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Source: Facebook News Consumers Are More Anti-Vaccine Than Fox Viewers | Gizmodo