their accounts in the process. again, the medication is popular in barn yards, it s popular among horses and cows with worms. not so much for people with covid-19. for that we have masks and we have very efficacious vaccines. see all of the conversation that preceded this segment. our great things to dr. joan donovan for joining us tonight, thank you very much for your time and taking our questions. coming up for us, while a hurricane took our attention this weekend, something else was taking lives. a report on the latest when we come back. we believe in the power of the watch out. the “make way, coming through”. great. the storm alert. dad. and the subtle but effective ding. that s why we created low cash mode. the financial watch out that gives you the options and time needed to help you avoid overdraft fees.
media companies are getting a bit better from their early stance, look, we re just publisherers, we re not going to meddle with content, we re just publishers. are they getting better, and how can they get much better at this? well, we re starting to see the different companies take different tracks, which has been very interesting in this field to see. some of the researchers get some have ended up at facebook that were previously at nonprofits. we re seeing twitter add in curators to their trending algorithm to ensure that the things that are trending have more context. i have called for adding more librarians into the tech stack so that people do have more information when they re searching for things. and to your point about the deworming medication, we are seeing an uptick. we can look for signs off of social media as well, that disinformation or medical misinformation is having an
covid, who have other problems and need medical care and are vaccinated, are in a rage. as eugene said, this is becoming very visceral. that s why you saw the biden administration step in recently where they had been avoiding this and start pushing on mandates. they really tried to stay out of this debate and now they re all in, because the polling on mask mandates and vaccine mandates is quite heartening. it s very they re very, very popular. and it really shows there s a real movement in this country against the unvaccinated who are making who are really just breaking our health care system. two friends of this broadcast who really came to play tonight, we appreciate it. eugene robinson, a.b. stoddard, thank you so much for your comments and your thoughts. coming up for us, a harvard expert who was one of the first to warn us about covid disinformation is here with us tonight to talk about how social media companies indeed can stop the spread of these nonstop lies that are co
the luxury of the thought experiment to think about how we got to this level of vaccine denial and is this kind of the ultimate going-away gift of trump and trumpism? brian, darkly, to give the anti-vaxx movement credit, they were flourishing long before donald trump became a candidate or became president. but his flirtation with questioning the connection between vaccines and autism certainly helped fuel their movement. and so did the explosion of disinformation on social media. and trump s refusal to brand, market, and lobby and campaign for the covid vaccines in the time he had left in office, and the fact that he got the vaccine in secret, and sort of begrudgingly since then has
from vaccines. still here with us tonight, eugene robinson, a.b. stoddard. eugene, i promised to quote from you. here it is. you are already familiar with it. for our listeners and viewers, if reason, patriotism and clear self-interest won t convince reluctant americans to protect themselves and their communities against covid-19, maybe the threat of not being able to work, go to school, or lead anything like a normal life will do the trick. eugene, first off, that s an optimistic view. second, have the vaccinated americans been tiptoeing to too great an extent around the unvaccinated, is it time to play a little rougher? well, look, i know a lot of vaccinated people who have been the tiptoeing at all, who are quite angry that so many people have chosen not to be