Misinformation is the new smoking

We got the Biden administration’s first advisory from the surgeon general today, and it’s about how mis- and disinformation have put lives at risk in the COVID-19 pandemic. As Los Angeles County gets ready for another mask mandate, we’ll talk about what that advisory could mean for regulations down the line. Also on today’s show: Shohei Ohtani, inflation and a reason to think twice before griping on Slack.

Here’s everything we talked about:

• The text of Surgeon General Vivek Murthy’s advisory
• “Facebook, Twitter and other social media companies need to be treated like Big Tobacco” from NBC News
• “LA County will require masks indoors amid COVID-19 surge” from the Los Angeles Times
• “Transatlantic inflation surge fuels economists’ fears of overheating” from the Financial Times
• “Cleveland Clinic, Mount Sinai Won’t Give Biogen’s New Alzheimer’s Drug” from The Wall Street Journal
• “Netflix Fires Marketing Execs for Criticizing Bosses Over Slack” from The Hollywood Reporter
• “The Origin Story of Shohei Ohtani, Two-Way Superhero” from The Ringer
• “ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith apologizes for “insensitive” comments about Japanese baseball star Shohei Ohtani” from CBS News
• One of Ohtani’s more incredible hits

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