Harry Sisson

So even during the Trump administration, the first time they reached out to social media companies a number of times and said, hey, this X, Y piece of information about COVID or whatever it might be, we believe is harmful.

Just putting it on your radar and Facebook or whatever platform it is, they can delete it if they want.

But there's no pressure from the government.

The government can't force them to do that.

Yeah, I mean, and I and I, I don't personally I know I think it's perfectly fine to disagree with me, but I don't have a problem with that.

You know, if if

You know, this board of experts at the CDC or whatever it is and saying, hey, this misinformation is really hampering our effort to save lives.

I have no problem with the government reaching out and saying, hey, Facebook, Instagram, we just want to let you know that we have intel or we've gathered something that indicates that a lot of this misinformation is coming from your platform.

I have no problem with them saying, do you want to, like, I don't know, tackle this in some way.

But I know some people do.

They think it's government overreach.

And I think it's fair to disagree.

Yeah, I mean, I don't have any problem with guidance.

I understand that, you know, especially as digital and the digital space grows, there's this like very fine line between, you know, what's the public sphere and what's not.

And so as social media grows, I think it's becoming more of like the town square.

So I understand that there's like the very fine line, but

I just can't help but think how much misinformation killed people during COVID, for example, that people believe that the vaccine was going to kill them or the vaccine is going to give them a terrible side effect.

They're going to grow a third arm or something like that.

It hurts me as an American, somebody that cares about people, to think that so many people could have been saved if they, I don't know, didn't listen to their crazy uncle on Facebook.

Speaking of vaccines, you saw what RFK just did?