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United States Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy says that misinformation much of it on tech platforms is a public health threat that has cost people’s lives and prolonged the Covid pandemic.
As Murthy said in a Thursday press conference, health advisories are usually about things people physically consume: food, drinks, cigarettes. But the first advisory of his tenure in the Biden administration (he was also the surgeon general under President Obama) is about what we consume with our eyes and ears: misinformation.
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