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Of casual misinformation spreaders, average joes, people on facebook who are skeptical or curious or not getting the wheels of the covid vaccine, so to speak. it is hard to shut all of them down in real-time. this is their own customer base for facebook, and they're worried about being too tough on their own users. >> i mean i heard this, you hear this in the context of why police union won't more forcefully defend the four officers mutilated and attacked and the four who have taken their lives by suicide. you hear it in every walk of life. when will people use the tools they have to ask someo...

I will say, look, the biden administration is in a tough place here. the vaccine is not spreading as fast as it should. people are still reluctant. that's a huge problem for the biden administration. what they're doing is pushing on every lever they can, including hitting facebook, rapping them to try to get facebook to take a tougher line. what they have is the bully pulpit and this kind of pressure you write about in my colleague's story to get facebook to be tougher. again, there's no set of rules and regulations that dictates what information facebook can and cannot put up there. that's wh...

Nick, we talked about facebook over the years in the context of election disinformation. why isn't there a stronger hand taken with facebook, which is one of the most sort of prominent malign influences in the disinformation space? >> well, look, the big problem here is that there is no law saying what facebook has to do here, nicolle. but the broader problem, the central problem with facebook and covid is the same as the central problem with facebook and the big lie, which is basically the same as the problem with facebook and russian misinformation. facebook is a uniquely powerful platform f...