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Favor of verifying people's vaccine status, that will send a powerful signal to companies all over the country and i'm mystified that president biden hasn't taken that step yet. they're relying on the voluntary approach, pleading with people. with a lot of people it's just simply not going to work. >> let's 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 through it and it's written in a jargon that most of us wouldn't understand but anti-vaxxers flagg...

Platforms. what's the solution? >> they're 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 like vaccines. that goes pretty far. you know, bots moderate that stuff but on the actor level that's...

Facebook has banned that kind of group from forming. what they haven't 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 that's how they get around this. these groups have tens of thousands of followers sometimes. facebook took some down yesterday after our reporting but it doesn't stop there. on instagram, the same thing. groups about swimming that are really about vaccine. they say i'm not going swimm...

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. >> they're aware that facebook is on the lookout for them and they're 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 is real news from groups that no longer call it moderna. >> they're getting away with something, pa...