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Next Door has a COVID-19 problem.

The platform, which is sort of a Facebook for your neighborhood,

was once used for things like asking neighbors for a stick of butter,

looking for strollers to take a pet on a walk, or passive-aggressive complaints about

proper street parking. That was next door. Now, next door is overrun with misinformation

and false theories about COVID, and the vaccine rollout. Joining me is Rico,

Jebekah Hyawau, Hairbecka. Hey.

So did I characterize that correctly? Tell me what a typical day a next door

looked like, at least before the pandemic.

Yes. So next door has always tried to be a platform for local tasks, missing

dogs and needing a plumber, and things like that. That's not to say it hasn't fallen short

of that mission of sort of a neighborly, helpful platform before the pandemic.

But amid the pandemic, everyone's been talking about COVID. Everyone's been talking about

how to respond to COVID. And amid that, just like we've seen on other platforms, there's

misinformation and whatnot. But I think what makes next door different in this respect is that

it's your neighbors. It's the people who are arguing about masks on your next door are the people

who you're going to see at your local supermarket, who you're going to see when you're trying to go

to the bank and things like that. So there's a really familiar aspect to it that kind of changes

the misinformation conversation that we've been having. Are there new people coming on next

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