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Favor of verifying peoples vaccine status, that will send a powerful signal to companies all over the country and im mystified that president biden hasnt taken that step yet. theyre relying on the voluntary approach, pleading with people. with a lot of people its just simply not going to work. >> lets add to our conversation, senior reporter for nbc news, ben collins. new reporting on how anti-vaccine groups are using code words. good morning. talk about how this works because i was reading thro...

Platforms. whats the solution? >> theyre borrowing from the extremist playbook. so you have to get people who live in that space to see how it evolves next. specifically the boo ga loo movement, responsible for the death of many cops last year in in the united states. it comes from skirting these bans, code words on facebook. they changed their name on facebook to the big lieu wow. to get around the measures on facebook. the number one way to do it is to stop tracking the moderation of words lik...

Facebook has banned that kind of group from forming. what they havent banned those moderators creating new groups like dance party or dinner party. and those groups the word vaccine is dance, pfizer is pizza. and they have a code at the top of the page, they have a legend for the codes at the top of the page. so thats how they get around this. these groups have tens of thousands of followers sometimes. facebook took some down yesterday after our reporting but it doesnt stop there. on instagram, ...

Like this because of those code words, but they already removed some 18 million covid lies so far. ben collins is with us. he is with us on the anti-vaxers on facebook that are being creative o get around the rules. here you have them using words like pizza for pfizer and molana for moderna. >> theyre aware that facebook is on the lookout for them and theyre trying to evade bans. one of the big ones, dance party. my nondancing doctor, there

Anti-vax misinformation on their platforms, but now the groups are using other methods to get information out there. what are they doing? >> true that facebook is working overtime to get overt anti-vax messages off the platform. anti-vaxxors have taken a play from extremists, using code words instead of the actual words. instead of pfizer, it is pizza. change groups to dance party, dinner party, swing club. >> hold on a second. >> yep, go ahead. >> and there are people out there who believe this...

America. this, ladies and gentlemen, has nothing to do with the kind of change that anyone can believe in, not my kids and not your kids. >> there were a lot of code words. i mean sarah palin had her role to play, and that role was to kind of stoke the sense of suspicions, this fear of who barack obama was and what he potentially represented. you know, laying those seeds out there that were seeds of doubt, if you will, into the actual character -- not necessarily the politics, but the character ...

You needed to empty the ball. you need to evacuate that range. >> are using any code words or anything? >> no. this is real. i said, this is my life, dont play with. >> and dont notify the police? >> and dont call the police. >> matts boss ignored his plea of no cops. >> 9-1-1. whats your emergency? >> i just received a call a few minutes ago from one of our vps ... and hes instructing me to vacate our new branch because theyre going to come and rob it. >> that 9-1-1 call eventually ended up her...

1968 was to the right wing base. >> the wave of crime is not going to be the wave of the future in america. >> fear, fear, fear. >> nixon used what was called the southern strategy. build the base by attracting more white support in the south with subtle appeals to racism. >> these cold words, these dog whistles -- law and order. these code words. these dog whistles. law and order. >> law and order is something that everybody wants. >> the right loved nixon until he began to run the country. to ...

The Atlantic We Choose Our Cults Every Day Cultish, a new book by the linguist Amanda Montell, reveals how insidery language informs the communities of modern life. 11:35 AM ET Share Way back in January, I was idly thumbing through Instagram when I received a message that shook me like a nascent martini. “Did you hear that Taking Cara Babies donated to Trump?” a friend wrote. This sentence likely makes no sense to you, unless you’ve had a baby sometime in the past few years. Taking Cara B...

>> joined, now, by our chief domestic correspondent, jim acosta, who covered the previous administration. cnn chief white house correspondent, kaitlan collins, is back with us. there wasnt applause when the vice president had the line, you know, we went back and we did our duty. the applause was backing the, you know, im not going to let it, you know, basically, turn -- make me turn against the president. im so proud of what we did for the four years. what else did the vice president have to say...