On Monday Facebook briefly died. This summer President Biden accused it of murder. At least he seemed to. In the week that his press secretary twice cited a report naming 12 top spreaders of anti-vaccine propaganda, journalists asked Biden about the social media companies that granted them platforms. He said they were “killing” the unvaccinated. Facebook was not happy and a few days later the president “walked back” the comment. He had meant to accuse the antivaxers. Facebook was not killing people.
Imran Ahmed is not walking anything back. “There are people gurgling for their breath in ICUs right now who are saying to their doctors, ‘I thought the vaccine would hurt me,’ ” he tells me. “Biden was right first time.”
Ahmed is
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