{"id":45628,"date":"2022-03-03T10:11:35","date_gmt":"2022-03-03T18:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45628"},"modified":"2022-03-03T15:12:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-03T23:12:01","slug":"turn-it-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=45628","title":{"rendered":"TURN IT OVER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Surgeon General\u00a0Vivek Murthy\u00a0has reportedly asked Big Tech companies to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rlwwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbckntgck_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a=&amp;b=47655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rlwwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbckntgck_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a%3D%26b%3D47655&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646434946852000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0f_p9LmroSoP0b39VBplWS\">hand over<\/a>\u00a0data regarding COVID-19 misinformation,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rltwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbckntgcg_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a=&amp;b=47655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/rltwyhjflccpshscpkgllpwwljpbcjcqqvlfhtbckntgcg_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a%3D%26b%3D47655&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646434946852000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2VZf-e_BwwhHYIUUgv-Wi7\">The New York Times<\/a>\u00a0reported on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In a formal notice, Murthy requested major tech platforms\u00a0submit information about the prevalence and scale of COVID-19 misinformation on their sites, from\u00a0social networks, search engines, crowdsourced platforms, e-commerce platforms and instant messaging systems.<\/p>\n<p>The Surgeon general last summer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jnmfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbtjqvbm_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a=&amp;b=47655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/jnmfczshnbbwpzpbwtvnnwffnswkbsbddmnhzqkbtjqvbm_ldgmjjgkgrmndngdqgzz.html?a%3D%26b%3D47655&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1646434946853000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2n3PPh9sEpnncjHS3jeELn\">issued an advisory<\/a>\u00a0calling health misinformation an &#8220;urgent threat,&#8221; and\u00a0urging tech and social media platforms to\u00a0redesign algorithms to reduce misinformation amplification and to bolster their monitoring of it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Surgeon General\u00a0Vivek Murthy\u00a0has reportedly asked&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=45628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45629,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45628\/revisions\/45629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}