COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation: Is Facebook Responsible? | Amanpour and Company

As the pandemic unfolded, the role of social media in the spread of distrust, division and misinformation became impossible to deny. A new book by reporters Cecilia Kang and Sheera Frenkel reveals what they claim are Facebook’s deliberately dark strategies in the “battle for domination,” as they explain to Hari Sreenivasan.

Originally aired on July 26, 2021.

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