Scott Gottlieb: Social Media Platforms Need to Stop Vaccine Misinformation Last Friday, President Joe Biden contended that social media platforms like Facebook are “killing people” by allowing coronavirus vaccine misinformation to circulate on their sites. Dr. Scott Gottlieb, the former head of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, has criticized social media companies like Facebook and Twitter for being unable to regulate the spread of coronavirus vaccine misinformation on their respective platforms. “If they’re giving someone a very big platform to distribute information, they have an obligation to look at the information that’s being distributed,” he said during an interview earlier this week on CNBC’s Squawk Box.