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President Biden’s attack on Facebook Inc. on Friday followed months of mounting private frustration inside his administration over the social-media giant’s handling of vaccine misinformation, according to U.S. officials, bringing into public view tensions that could complicate efforts to stop the spread of Covid-19.

Facebook struck back on Saturday against President Joe Biden’s unusually blunt assertion that social media companies are “killing people” by allowing vaccine misinformation to spread on their platforms. In a blog post subtly titled, “Moving Past the Finger Pointing,” Facebook executive Guy Rosen sought to “tell a very different story to the one promoted by the administration in recent days” and suggested the White House is using Facebook as a scapegoat to explain away its own pandemic shortcomings.

Some Republican leaders and conservative talk show hosts are seeking to boost their political profiles and ratings by hyping the government vaccine effort as the actions of a totalitarian government trying to erode American freedoms. And it's having a terrible toll, as Covid-19 cases shoot up in Republican-led states especially and as it emerges that almost everyone now dying from the disease is unvaccinated. Social media networks, including Facebook, are some of the main venues where the misinformation is propagated. (Facebook isn't happy and accused Biden on Saturday of lashing out because he missed his deadline to get 70% of adults to take at least one dose of the vaccine by July 4.) 

Still, the conflict has further complicated Facebook’s profile in Washington—with both the left and right—over everything from misinformation to its economic and political clout. While the company is under attack from the White House for failing to do more to monitor posts, some Republicans accused it of stifling free speech. The Biden administration is “going to monopolists and saying, ‘You are our tool to censor views we disagree with,’ ” Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) said on Fox News on Sunday.

Tensions are particularly high around vaccine misinformation because nearly all hospitalizations and deaths are among the unvaccinated. The Delta variant is wreaking particular havoc on under-vaccinated communities. In Arkansas, where only 44 percent of residents have gotten at least one shot, “hospitalizations have quadrupled since mid-May” and “more than a third of patients are in intensive care,” the Times reported. “It’s really discouraging to see younger, sicker patients,” Dr. Steppe Mette, the chief executive of Little Rock hospital, told the outlet. “We didn’t see this degree of illness earlier in the epidemic.”

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