Surgeon General Urges Social Media to Tackle Vaccine Misinformation

Surgeon General Vivek H. Murthy issued a warning against health misinformation, saying that falsehoods spreading quickly online have subjected large numbers of Americans to avoidable illness and death. In remarks at the White House, Murthy called on social media companies to step up their efforts on the issue, arguing that technology firms “have enabled misinformation to poison our information environment with little accountability to their users.”