U.S. President Joe Biden believes social media platforms have a responsibility to "stop amplifying untrustworthy content," the White House said on Wednesday, even as it declined to comment directly on a decision by Facebook Inc's oversight board to keep a suspension in place for former President Donald Trump. "The president's view is that the major platforms have a responsibility related to the health and safety of all Americans to stop amplifying untrustworthy content, disinformation and misinformation, especially related to COVID-19, vaccinations and elections," White House spokeswoman Jen Psaki told reporters.
By James Rosen
LIKE SO MANY other Americans, I cheered in awe and happy disbelief last year as a band of driven, brainy scientists worked at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine to stop a pandemicâs deadly rampage across the globe.
Sacrificing sleep, foregoing family time, fueled by adrenaline and hope, a small group of immunologists and virologists collaborated across borders to achieve the impossible: create a new type of vaccine from scratch in a fraction of the time previously required to create the inoculations that had conquered past pandemics.
They didnât have the four decades it took before British physician Edward Jenner unveiled the smallpox vaccine in 1796, the first in world history. They didnât have the 12 years needed to unveil the flu vaccine in 1945, which to this day is only about 50 percent effective. They didnât even have the five years it took Dr. Jonas Salk to develop the polio vaccine, considered a medical miracle when he annou
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VIENNA (Reuters) -Russia and Western European powers gave contrasting accounts on Saturday of the task ahead in talks to bring Iran and the United States fully back into compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal, as the talks adjourned for six days. The talks began last month in Vienna with the remaining parties to the deal - Iran, Russia, China, France, Britain and Germany - meeting in the basement of a luxury hotel, and the United States based in another hotel across the street. Iran has refused to hold direct meetings with U.S. officials.