New York Daily News | Jul 26, 2021 at 5:22 PM The city’s top health official accused Facebook and Twitter on Monday of stifling local vaccination efforts by facilitating “dangerous” coronavirus misinformation on their platforms at a time when COVID-19 infections are back on the rise in New York. Dr. David Chokshi, Mayor de Blasio’s Health Department commissioner, aimed the broadside in a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who faced criticism from the White House over the same issue last week. “Your failure to effectively stop the spread of this dangerous information on your platforms and vigorously enforce your own policies targeting misinformation is a threat to the public health of New York City residents and a serious impediment to our efforts to vaccinate all New York City residents,” Chokshi wrote to Zuckerberg and Dorsey. “In short, the spread of misinformation is costing New Yorkers their lives.” An iPhone displays the Facebook app. (Jenny Kane/AP) More than 40% of the city’s population remains unvaccinated, according to Health Department data. According to polling, a significant chunk of unvaccinated Americans aren’t getting inoculated due to concerns about the safety of the shots — a baseless belief…
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