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Able to move the opinions of the individuals to the right place. it really shows how strong the misinformation campaign is. >> laura: dr. bhattacharya, no mention of the employees who quiets had natural immunity. nothing. basically saying its a messaging problem and misinformation problem. >> i mean come on when you basic scientific facts like the people who recovered from covid, have better community than people in were vaccinated, you can a brief distrust. when leaders of the scientific commun...

Long-standing trust, the science, we werent able to move the opinions of those individuals to the right place. it shows how strong the misinformation campaign is about vaccines. laura: no mention of the employees who quit who had natural immunity, basically saying it is a messaging problem and a misinformation problem. >> when you deny basic scientific fact like the fact that people who are covid recovered have durable immunity, you are going to breed distrust. when leaders of the scientific com...

Journalist can decide how she said its the package together. but when its done in a way and important as a supreme court justice, people deserve to know what was said. >> this contributes to a decline in trust in media. when she admits years later she basically covered something up, even if she says i dont know if i did the right thing and im wrestling with it and trying to be transparent now, it contributes to a lack of trust in media. heres the headline of the week, joel at muss saying it adds...

Are suggesting we do? >> well, the company did things where they said it would curb misinformation and it did the opposite. i am old enough to remember a few years ago when they had a massive misinformation problem that they said was the middle of the country talking things through, which i thought was pretty paternalistic. what they did at that time is say we are not going to deal with misinformation in news feeds, but we will push people towards groups. what does that serve to do? it hid all t...

This is a new poll showing 81% say misinfo is a major problem, but i suspect that is because everyone distrusts some form of media. its the converse to what i said earlier, everyone trusts some sources but distrust other sources. they see that stuff as misinformation. so, thus, everyone thinks theres a big misinformation problem because they dont believe the other one personally. if theres a solution to this -- and i dont know if there is, because we live in one america and two media worlds, but...

Problem?— understand, is a part of the roblem? , . understand, is a part of the roblem? . . , problem? there is and there is a lot of misinformation - problem? there is and there is a lot of misinformation and - a lot of misinformation and hype and celebrity ceos and influential people pushing people in a different direction and there are many like that out there so there is a lot of hype and misinformation and i also feel there is a lot of frustration with people who want to invest in places ...

There, and i certainly understand his frustration, but the -- you know, hes proposing rules as if were in a country that doesnt have this misinformation problem, do you know what i mean? jeff, he -- hes -- he wants to govern a country other than the one we have which has, you know, a political party, the republican party, that -- that too many members of are embracing anti-science. >> well, jake, theres no doubt that this is exhibit "a" certainly of this administration of a question is this a go...

Story which is that theyre presenting authentic information that promotes the vaccine. what theyre not presenting and whats really frustrating the white house in my conversations with them, theyre not presenting how many people actually view like and shared misinformation. and thats the thing that the white house really wants for facebook to focus on. so, yes, facebook gets some credit for actually promoting authentic content about the vaccine, but they are presenting -- not solving this misinfo...

On covid misinformation, whats your message to platforms like facebook? >> theyre killing people. i mean, it really -- look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and theyre killing people. >> president biden on friday pulled no punches as the white house cranks up the pressure on facebook to clean up its covid misinformation problem. >> theres about 12 people who are producing 65% of antivaccine misinformation on social media platforms. all of them remain active on facebook despi...

Officials and expanding the security team that looks for it. but they havent solved their misinformation problem. they havent solved americans spreading conspiracies, false rumors and highly partisan news to one another. and in the leadup to january 6th, that was the problem. they were allowing president trump himself to spread all sorts of conspiracies about voter fraud, about the election being stolen. and to this day they dont really have a clear policy on what theyre going to do. its just a ...