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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 where they will get better returns so all of that compounded is leading to where cryptocurrency is t...

There, and i certainly understand his frustration, but the -- you know, he's proposing rules as if we're in a country that doesn't have this misinformation problem, do you know what i mean? jeff, he -- he's -- 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, there's no doubt that this is exhibit "a" certainly of this administration of a question is this a good afternoon, everyonable country or not, and in many respects, you know, president biden has b...

Story which is that they're presenting authentic information that promotes the vaccine. what they're not presenting and what's really frustrating the white house in my conversations with them, they're not presenting how many people actually view like and shared misinformation. and that's 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 misinformation problem. this is a flash point of years of harmful content on facebook that we show in ...

On covid misinformation, what's your message to platforms like facebook? >> they're killing people. i mean, it really -- look, the only pandemic we have is among the unvaccinated, and they're 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. >> there's about 12 people who are producing 65% of antivaccine misinformation on social media platforms. all of them remain active on facebook despite some being banned on other platforms. including facebook, ones that facebook owns. >> now the...

Officials and expanding the security team that looks for it. but they haven't solved their misinformation problem. they haven't 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 don't really have a clear policy on what they're going to do. it's just a matter of time before this happens again. i think that's the important thing to take out of thi...