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In an interview, the singer and actor discusses her new ABC musical drama, her biggest rap inspirations and the possibility of a “Moesha” reunion.

Taking part in a new TikTok challenge, the 19-year-old daughter of the Boy Is Mine singer shares several before and after photos to show her weight loss journey.

Ready to accommodate the politically powerful, especially president donald trump in the years before he was banned on the platform after the january 6th siege on the u.s. capitol. joining me now is senior nbc reporter and "new york times" tech reporter. thank you so much for joining me, ladies. i want to start with you, brandy. one of the things that i found so interesting, and youve done a lot of work on this, is how reticent facebook seems to be when it is to actually change this behavior. how...

Food safe. we now need to do the same thing for tech. have something like an fda. >> cecilia, in your book you follow up with saying, one thing is certain, even if the company undergoes radical transformation in the coming years, that change is unlikely to come from within, the algorithm that serves as facebooks beating heart is too powerful and too lucrative. can you expand a little bit on that? >> yeah. and i think frances haugen this week tried to crystalize and make accessible how facebooks ...

Facebook executives coming forward on nbc and on other platforms in the coming weeks, geoff. >> so brandy, how does that strike you, whats your reaction to the facebook statement, especially their claim that they cannot identify a solution to this problem? haugen says show knows what the solution is, its facebook changing their algorithm. but they dont want to do that because as she puts it, theyre putting profit over public safety. >> well, i would be a little suspect of anyone saying that this...

Mental health deteriorates, mostly because theyre comparing themselves to others. now, im a child of the 80s. i remember we were having these same conversation about womens magazines, right? the difference here is that facebook is a $1 trillion company. and if they know from internal research that this is making, you know, their young audience, their young users feel bad about themselves, maybe even want to hurt themselves, then they have supposedly the money and the brains to maybe do something...

Ruling. and so thats some good news but i think what this also shows is there is a limit to any outside sources can do and conspiracy thinking and spread on social media is very strong. there will always be a source of people finding their information this way and believe it. the other half, when a woman like the pregnant woman and her by die, usually those family members and those immediate friends and relatives are getting vaccinated. so at some point maybe maybe thatll do it. >> senior report...

It really is about money, but teens have stopped using facebook and gone to instagram instagram is using platforms like tiktok, and you might think its very sad that theyre building it because its the right thing to do, but a skeptic might understand that this is a business and look to facebook to secure or win back a portion of the young market and keep their appearance >> all about the bottom line brandy zadrozny, thank you the jury has reached a verdict in the sex trafficking trial of r. ke...

Increasingly dangerous at home treatments. lets bring in senior reporter for nbc news, brandy. i am curious, basically the difference here is the messengers, nurses and doctors are being targeted to an extent. >> yeah, to a large extent. patients are you know deferring this life-saving care to try this unproven cure. a lot of are believing that doctors and nurses are keeping them sick and trying to hurt them. this leads to violence against healthcare professionals. we seen an uptick in that. thi...

All around us all the time, and then you have this plausible deniability and this gaslighting where, you know, members of the right say, oh, were just going to the school board meeting. oh, we are just exercising our first amendment rights. oh, were just going to the capitol and, you know, the cops opened up the gates so it is fine, and it is not. i think we have to call violence and the threat of violence when we see it. >> brandy, thanks for joining us tonight. great reporting as always. one...