Как часто бывает в американском мейнстриме, к изложению приделан идиотский заголовок, а абзацы хаотично переставлены местами, но это легко починить. Получается следующая картина. politico.com -- Back then (весна 2021 года), senior aides leading the pandemic response saw combating misinformation as a critical priority. The White House spent months pressuring social media companies to stringently enforce rules against misinformation and flagging false claims from prominent vaccine skeptics — Kennedy among them. Its Covid team spent millions of dollars on public education programs. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy used his first official advisory to label health misinformation an “urgent threat.” The early focus extended to Biden himself, who declared in June 2021 that platforms like Facebook were “killing people” by allowing Covid conspiracies to spread. The denunciation was so harsh that even some aides leading the administration’s misinformation battle thought it went too far, and Biden soon backtracked. But the virus’ resurgence later that summer caught the White House by surprise, scrambling its carefully planned vaccine messaging and allowing anti-vaxxers to elevate doubts about the shot’s effectiveness (благодаря журналу мы помним, что в Чикаго это произошло 20 августа 2021 года ). The administration’s disinformation fight never recovered. Biden officials have felt handcuffed for the past two years by a Republican lawsuit over the administration’s initial attempt to clamp down on anti-vaxxers, who alleged the White House violated the First Amendment in encouraging social media companies to crack down on anti-vaccine posts. In addition, Congress is clawing back Covid funds once earmarked for vaccine education and outreach. Итого, суды и демократия работают, но на горизонте в несколько лет даже в таких выдающихся случаях. А вакцины от гриппа и ковида - нет.