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Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube all supposedly banned COVID misinformation during the pandemic.

And yet, while over a year into the crisis, the companies are still failing to moderate it.

The United States Surgeon General even said that misinformation online is a public health threat

that it's partially responsible for vaccine hesitancy and outright refusal and has led to

preventable illness and death. During the COVID-19 pandemic, health misinformation has led people

to resist wearing masks in high-risk settings. It's led them to turn down proven treatments

and to choose not to get vaccinated. This has led to avoidable illnesses and death. Simply put,

health information has caused us lives. So, with cases rising in all 50 states, the Delta variant

quickly spreading and COVID misinformation running rampant online, things appear to be getting

worse. But a new bill proposed in the Senate targeting health misinformation online could change that.

Recode Shereen Gafari is here to explain. Hey Shereen.

Hey Adam. So Shereen, what is the Health Misinformation Act?

So the Health Misinformation Act is a bill sponsored by Senator Amy Klobuchar and

co-sponsor by Senator Ben Ray Luhan. And what it would do is create an exception to the landmark

Internet law called Section 230. That law has always shielded tech companies like Facebook,

Google, Twitter, from being sued over almost any of the content that people post on their sites.

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