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point, so that's what we're looking at. >> it is a scary way to think about it in that framing, brandy. dr. torres, facebook came out with a statement yesterday saying it's taking agresive action against misinformation about covid vaccines including removing more than 18 million pieces of covid misinformation. there's tons of stuff out there. there's clearly a disconnect between what facebook is doing and what the white house wants. you as a practicing physician, how do you see online misinformation impacting health decisions and do you think what the white house is doing goes far enough? >> it's a huge impact, hallie, because there's a saying? science and medicine. it's hard to disprove a negative. if they put something negative about the vaccine, it's hard to disprove that, because it takes years of study in order to say yes you're right, it does not do that but at the same time, this is what people listen to and what they bring to their doctors saying i'm not going to take it because i read on the internet this is happening. can you prove to me it's not happening, and at this point, it's really difficult to do, and