U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Dr. Robert Califf has claimed that online “misinformation” is responsible for shortening the “life expectancy” of people.
The FDA chief made the comments during a new interview with CNBC while pushing for “better regulations” to enforce more censorship online.
Califf insists that “specific authorities at FDA, FTC, and other areas” are going to need Internet companies to increase censorship efforts to crack down on so-called “health misinformation.”
Califf lamented that in “the good old days,” pharmaceutical companies didn’t need to worry about the public questioning their products because “the Internet didn’t exist.”