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My bill is aiming to protect access, provide another layer of protection for abortion medication in states where abortion will still be legal after the supreme court, which appears to be on the precipice of getting rid of roe, that it will still be there. i think its important to introduce this legislation to help people understand abortion medication, where it will still be legal and make sure people understand theres a lot of misinformation being put out there by republicans about this. we saw...

Realtime. each phase of this is different and requires a different response and a different reaction. the communication has to change on a regular basis. what we had over the period of the last month when people were involved in holidays, hanukkah and christmas and trying to keep their lives organized is a lot of information coming out. i would hope that dr. wollensky and the cdc have a restart in january. i would urge them to do daily press conferences, daily releases. theres so much noise in t...

Advertisers, or as we saw with neil young, artists withdrawing. i think these platforms that distribute podcasts are probably more vulnerable than facebook or google. if an advertiser or artist leaves, they just dont feel it. i think this is more like traditional media. but if more shoes drops, if more artists leave platforms, i think youll start to see more and more attention paid to this misinformation being spread on this kind of emerging medium, if you will. >> and what about steve bannon an...

If an advertiser or artist leaves, they just dont feel it. i think this is more like traditional media. but if more shoes drops, if more artists leave platforms or advertisers that are much more concentrated across these platforms speak up, i think youll start to see more and more attention paid to this misinformation being spread on this kind of emerging medium, if you will. >> and what about steve bannon and his podcast? i mean, hes still running this podcast, despite being under indictment fo...

Things can travel at light speed and get amplified massively really is new and interesting. at the same time, there is a lot thats not new. i think -- and its, i think, sometimes easy to blame everything you dont like on this crazy new technical context of misinformation being spread on social media when, for instance, a lot of trump supporters, its not that -- the further he goes, the more outrageous the thing he said. who knows if they believed or they didnt believe it, but they liked that he ...

Information to shape public discourse on information. >> i think the best academics -- right there is this incredible new machine for amplifying all sorts of things. social movements you think are really important. social movements you think are horrible. true information, false information. this new ecosystem of which things can travel at light speed and get amplified massively. really is new and interesting. at the same time, there is a lot that is not new. i think its sometimes easy to blame ...

>> somebody sent me a thing this morning where they were talking about putting the vaccine into salad dressing, have you seen this? >> yes. >> i mean, im thinking to myself, this is a bizaro world, these people are seriously thinking about how to impose their will on us in our society and -- >> -- freedom of choice. >> and it is a bizarro world, dr. patel, because its not true, its yet another piece of misinformation being put out there by a former leader in this country. someone that many ameri...

The investment into getting enough fact checkers online to stop this information, this disinformation thats killing americans and thats perhaps the greatest threat to american democracy right now with the misinformation being spread around. theyre not spending the money required to stop this disinformation dead in its tracks. >> the story mike told about his friend is one i think most people in the country can relate to. you know somebody you love, someone you care about, trust, someone you thin...

Those masks. we know the honor system doesnt work. why back away from that option? >> over half of the state is in a jurisdiction that requires mask wearing in california or is encouraged to wear mask coverings. we can talk about conspiracy theories. its very direct misinformation, not just conspiracy theories, its misinformation being proffered by the ron johnsons and the vast majority or roughly republican house members. its folks like tucker carlson. these guys on the right. we need to be mor...

>> yes, thats exactly what were seeing. so, you know, our evaluation of these hospitalizations shows that 95, 90%, 98%, excuse me, to 95% -- 99.5%, excuse me, of all individuals that are currently hospitalized are not vaccinated. and i think the reason why theyre not being vaccinated is multi-factorial. one is they dont see this as a serial illness that can affect them because theyre young and healthy. the second is misinformation. misinformation being promulgated through social media at this ti...