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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 it's important to introduce this legislation to help people understand abortion medication, where it will still be legal and make sure people understand there's a lot of misinformation being put out there by republicans about this. we saw this in a committee i serve on just a couple weeks ago, trying to say it isn't safe, it's dangero...

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. there's so much noise in this atmosphere. we have crank information coming from all sides. we have misinformation being willf...

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 don't feel it. i think this is more like traditional media. but if more shoes drops, if more artists leave platforms, i think you'll 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, he's still running this podcast, despite being under indictment for contemp...

If an advertiser or artist leaves, they just don't 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 you'll 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, he's still running this podcast, despite being under indictment for contempt of congress, refusing to comply with that subpoena and the january 6th investigation. ...

Things can travel at light speed and get amplified massively really is new and interesting. at the same time, there is a lot that's not new. i think -- and it's, i think, sometimes easy to blame everything you don't like on this crazy new technical context of misinformation being spread on social media when, for instance, a lot of trump supporters, it's not that -- the further he goes, the more outrageous the thing he said. who knows if they believed or they didn't believe it, but they liked that he was saying it. and it did not turn out that a journalist says this isn't true and it would chan...