Dr. Uché Blackstock: The Federal Government Needs To Make a Concerted Effort To ‘Combat Misinformation’ on Covid and Vaccines

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BLACKSTOCK: "And you know, as you said, this, isn’t a coincidence. This information is put out there intentionally, but unfortunately people of absorb it and they’re willing to listen to it. And I was actually just on the phone today with a person who has not been vaccinated and was telling me these — essentially this misinformation that he heard about online through social media from friends and family, and really it takes multiple conversations to change their minds, which is one of the reasons why there needs to be a concerted effort at the federal level to combat misinformation. This is about holding social media platforms responsible. This is about engaging with cybersecurity and the FBI. We really need to take it seriously. I think we been behind the eight ball since the pandemic has begun in terms of addressing misinformation because we see right now most of the backseat holdouts are those people who believe, you know, that vaccines are bad for you, that they’re dangerous, that they’re not safe and effective. They believe everything against what the data actually shows. So they're not actually dealing in reality right now."

(Via Peacock)