buttar compares covid and the vaccine to world war ii and dr. anthony fauci to adolf hitler. >> fauci is a criminal. you took about hitler, okay. well -- >> whoever dr. fauci is in your mind, he is a government beurre craft, -- bureaucrat, and you e comparing him to hitler, to nazis, who killed 6 million jews? >> i think this number is going to be higher. >> you think dr. fauci is involved in some kind of plot to kill millions of people? i just want to make sure i understand this. >> again, drew, i'm a reasonable person. you're asking me what i think, and i said it could be this. but i can tell you that dr. fauci is not an innocent bystander. he's very well aware of what he's doing, and the extent of it, his involvement, i don't know. i'm not privy to that information. >> as atrocious as dr. buttar's conspiracy theories are, he is just one of the doctors spreading dangerous covid disinformation to millions of people across social media according to the center for countering digital hate. >> let's be absolutely clear. lies cost lives in a pandemi

. >> buttar is encouraging people to distrust life-saving vaccines.lse, twisted information and unproven conspiracies to do it. >> do you think the covid vaccine works? >> i think it is very effective at what it was designed for perhaps but not preventing death. certainly not >> it's not preventing death? >> no. >> even when faced with undisputable facts, he doubles down that the vaccines are more dangerous than the virus itself. >> 6.34 billion doses of this vaccine have been given. if you're right, people would be dropping dead all around us. >> it's not orchestrated to do that. each vaccine has been geared up. so you can look at the ingredients of the vaccines themselves. it's all been published. >> each has been feared up for what? >> each vaccine is designed -- it appears to be different. i don't know the details because i'm not a vaccine developer. >> scientific corruption -- >> because of his disinformation, buttar has been removed from facebook and instagram but still going stram on twitter, telegram and his own website filled with falsehoods.

rashid buttar repeatedly lies and disinforms on matters of public health.sn't have an impact on his medical license held in north carolina. across the country, covid-19 has created a subculture of disinformation among medical outcasts. state medical boards don't know what to do. >> those kinds of comments are very troubling to doctors who are on the front lines and managing covid. they are particularly frustrating. in fact, some of my colleagues are livid. >> cnn contacted medical boards in all 50 states. half of them responded. only two, rhode island and oregon, said they had actually disciplined doctors for coronavirus misinformation or related violations. that is despite hundreds of complaints. the federation of state medical boards issued a warning to physicians who generate and spread covid-19 vaccine misinformation or disinformation. that they are risking disciplinary action, including the suspension or revocation of their medical license. >> especially, in a pandemic, um, your actions could lead to the deaths of thousands of individuals because peopl

rashid buttar, who spreads dangerous disinformation about covid-19 and the life-saving vaccine.ou. he's been kicked off youtube, facebook, instagram. that's all good. why is he still out there on twitter able to use that platform to tell his followers where they can find the rest of this nonsense? >> he has had some of his posts removed, but he remains there, don. 88,000 followers. twitter tells us in general they are trying to improve their covid-19 misinformation enforcement, and that they renewed some prominent disin -- removed some prominent disinformers. but not this guy. >> drew, are you telling me that there is nothing a medical board can do to take away his license or put a warning on his credentials? >> there's nothing that the north carolina medical board is doing. and the problem is these medical boards, don, they are really, really dealing with the past. they are from the 20th century, built upon the premise that a patient who is harm -- they are not geared up for these social media doctors giving advice to patients they don't even know over the internet or through f