Thank you, Mr. Chair.
It's nice to follow Mr. Vidal, as I used to when we were on INAN together. I hope his work continues to be rewarding and productive on INAN. I'm sure it is.
Thank you to our witnesses today, not just for being here and providing really good testimony but also for your extraordinary work. I don't need to tell you, but I do want to emphasize, how important your extraordinary efforts are in society. You save lives every day. Thank you.
My first question is for Dr. Black.
It's about the first thing you mentioned with respect to the attacks you've experienced with respect to misinformation and disinformation. I think misinformation and disinformation should be differentiated. There's intentional misinformation. There's information that goes out because people are ill-informed. There's a very important divide here based on intent. A lot of people who are spreading misinformation are doing it in an effort to help. A lot of others are doing it with the intent to harm. I think those need to be differentiated.
I was hoping you could elaborate a little bit on your experiences and on what our government could do to counter misinformation, disinformation and malinformation. What do you think our obligations are in that regard?