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Confirmed murthy, attorney general as a guest this sunday. you will talk about the spread of the coronavirus variant and talk about the new white house program to collaborate with facebook to remove certain content from their social media platform. >> yeah, that is one of the subjects and you have to put this in context of what the head of the cdc, rochelle walensky said, this has become pandemic of unvaccinated, seeing huge surge in cases among the unvaccinated. the white house is concerned about that, concerned about people who are reluctant or unwilling to get the vaccine, they say because ...

Straight from joe biden's top flak. it turns out the white house ise not directing facebook to censor specific posts that joe biden's white house doesn't like. >> we are in regular touch with the social media platforms and those engagements typically happen through members of our senior staff but also members of our covid-19 team given as dr. murthy conveyed it, this is a big issue of misinformation specifically on the pandemic.si with increased this information research and tracking within the surgeon general's office and we are flagging problematic posts for facebook to spread the informatio...

G just the government's job to combat information. it's you and me. when we see ridiculous claims about the vaccine, that we not share it. it is a multipronged approach. if you take a look at the graphics they put out, they talk about all the different ways they're going to combat this, tools to identify misinformation, expand research. product design and policy changes on tech platforms, that was a super important and interesting part of what dr. murthy had to say. he said social media engines need to do their part. quote, modern technology companies have enabled the pois poisoning. this misi...

Vaccinations for adults or adolescents it's essential that we get this information to people. blocking that information, attacking the public health officials who are trying to bring that life saving information to adolescents and parents this is not in line with saving lives. it's counterproductive, and it's ultimately a disservice to people who depend on all of us as health professionals to get them the right information so they can make decisions about things like vaccines. >> so i am worried. i do think what has happened is many parts of this pandemic have become, unfortunately, controvers...

Us. so the question is what more can be done at this point. and it seems that people who are willing to get the vaccine are more than willing to get vaccinated and those who aren't, they won't get the vaccine, and people know the practices, stay three to six feet apart, and have we reached a public health plateau? >> yes, from the generic information or, you know, mask vaccination effort, and we now have to take it individual to individual, and that is tailoring the information and science for that individual. as you are pointing out, and as dr. murthy is doing, is mislabeling the information ...