parents have questions about their kids health which is why the white house encourages parents to reach out to their own family doctors and pediatricians if they have nem them and step away from social media where kids are just as vulnerable to fake information designed to persuade and mislead as their parents are. in fact, the british study last month found that anti-vaccine conspiracy theories on tiktok could reach kids within minutes of signing up some as young as nine. for once, facebook or meta or whatever is trying to get ahead of it rolling out stricter policies for disinformation targeting kids. . if you have questions talk to your dr. but don t listen to anybody who has doctor in the kilgts. cue the once revered dr. ben carson this is a giant experiment. do we want to put our children at risk? why would we do a think like that? makes no sense whatsoever. hard to believe he was a pediatric neurosu surgeon. remember gifted hands. actually it does make sense
information. unless there is government intervention and also a deeper savvy among the american public of what is going on in facebook, it ll be a pandemic. right now, we re an epidemic. when people say, why is disinformation targeting minority groups of color? we did a program targeting those individuals that were marginalized, on the fence of whether or not to take the covid vaccine because of the bad spread of the disinformation in the latino community. how does not believing in the covid vaccine impact you in elections? if i do not trust the government is trying to do the best of their ability to make sure i am healthy, that i am safe, that they re not trying to put a technology into my system, why am i going to go out and vote in the midterm elections? this is the most obscure but also the most extreme type of voter suppression we are seeing. we started seeing a lot of flooding of the border of
how much overlap do you see? is it the same group of people intentionally creating misinformation? one of the things we saw, chuck, was disinformation in florida. behind the heels, disinformation specifically around covid. and beautiful reporting on your part. i have to share with you, i had a conversation with my mother, it was all around what s up. persuadable voters are most susceptible to the disinformation targeting. we are learning it creates a distrust in government. if you don t trust the government to take care of your health, it becomes the most morbid form of voter suppression, because if you don t trust them with your health, why are you trusting them to go out and vote. that s what we are trying to unpack now with the media partnership with the latino