 July 28, 2021  Lying About ‘Misinformation’ To Justify Tyranny By Ben Shapiro  Last week, President Joe Biden was asked whether he had any message for social media amidst a dramatic rise in the number of diagnosed COVID-19 cases thanks to the delta variant. Biden immediately responded that companies like Facebook were responsible for murder: “They’re killing people — I mean, they’re really, look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated. And they’re killing people.” Meanwhile, Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy said that Facebook had not stopped misinformation thoroughly enough on its platform, calling misinformation a “serious threat to public health.”
None of this is accurate. Facebook is, first of all, a platform; it is not a publication with the same responsibilities of editorial oversight as a publisher. To treat Facebook as such would be to transform its purpose. Furthermore, on a purely factual level, it is simply untrue that Facebook users are disproportionately likely to avoid vaccination — in fact, according to Facebook’s statistics, vaccine acceptance in the United States among their users now stands between 80% and 85%, and 3.3 million Americans have used their vaccine finder tool to seek a location for a vaccine.  WALSH: Simone Biles Quit On Her Team And Her Country. She Should Not Be Celebrated For It.  Greg Abbott Orders Texas National Guard To Begin Arresting Illegal Immigrants  Ron DeSantis Pushes For Action Against Ben & Jerry’s Over Israel Boycott  Was this newsletter forwarded to you? Request the next issue of The Daily Shapiro here.  | |||||||||||||