Kari digs deeper rather than taking information at face value.
Transcript
If there’s something on there [online], I’m unsure of, I will then, I’ll go and kind of try and research it a bit. See if there’s any like more peer-reviewed papers on them or, you know, if somebody says something, I’ll question what their source was. Like lots of people are, you know, will say, well I heard this about the vaccinations or I heard this about COVID and it actually does this and then you find out that they were on one of the sites that are, you know, like a Google site and everything is advertisement on the side and it’s just some kind of, you know, right-wing weird thing trying to promote, you know, anti-vax or whatever the topic may be.
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