President Joe Biden speaks about the economy and his infrastructure agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, on July 19th, 2021.... While companies like Facebook defend their practices and say they're helping people around the world access verified information about the shots, the White House says they haven't done enough to stop misinformation that has helped slow the pace of new vaccinations in the U.S.to a trickle.... Fewer than 400, 000 Americans are getting their

Fewer than 400, 000 Americans are getting their first vaccine dose each day — down from a high of more than 2 million per day in April.... These 12 people are out there giving misinformation, anyone listening to it is getting hurt by it, it’s killing people, ” Biden said.... “ It’s bad information.” “ I’m not trying to hold people accountable....

“ Democracy needs champions, ” he said.... “ The U.S. has lost a lot of its moral authority on this in part because we are so divided and dysfunctional as a country, we have our own leaders questioning the fairness of our institutions, ” said Nate Persily, a constitutional law professor at Stanford.... Many represented at the two-day confab are democratic in name only — and the administration has already taken some flak for its somewhat confounding guest list....

Read ourprivacy notice Thanks for signing up to theInside Washington email{{# verifyErrors}}{{ message}}{{/ verifyErrors}}{{^ verifyErrors}} Something went wrong.... The myth that Trump won the 2020 election has taken firm hold in the Republican electorate, with nearly 60% of GOP voters saying in an Associated Press poll last fall that Biden was not legitimately elected.... Ron DeSantis called for a new FBI director and the right for defendants to choose not to be prosecuted in Washington, D.C

Unfortunately, they land on opposite side of the question.... It’s true that with a combined total of more than 300 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines administered in the U.S. alone, the data on their safety and efficacy are copious indeed.... Newsletter Get the latest from Michael HiltzikCommentary on economics and more from a Pulitzer Prize winner. Enter email address Sign Me Up You may occasionally receive promotional content from the Los Angeles Times....