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>> i can see the pain on mikas face. i yield my time to you, mika. >> thank you. >> oh, okay. speaking of algorithms, well have the latest on facebook in a moment. big news there. the testimony. first, former vice president mike pence once again downplaying the january 6th attack on the capitol. you remember, the one where rioters were threatening his life, chanting, "hang mike pence." heres what he said in an interview on fox news monday night. >> i know the media wants to distract from the...

Government. its time chuck schumer. >> theyve done that. >> its time chuck schumer starts playing tough. >> absolutely. >> "politicos" sam stein, thank you very much. >> thanks, guys. coming up, after testimony on capitol hill from a facebook whistle employeer, the naacp is demanding a meeting with the social media company to discuss hate speech on its platform. more on "morning joe." act, congress can tackle it head on. with tax credits for clean energy companies that create millions of new...

Southeast asian country was actually chased out of the country because of the lies the government started spreading on facebook about him. >> yeah, i think thats right. whats interesting, joe, weve always had fringe elements of society that didnt buy into, you know, the common consensus. whether it be on science, whether it be on democracy, truth and information. today, that fringe has been empowered and emboldened and expanded by the reach of social media, right? the ability to both spread this...

Algorithms with regulators. >> if facebook is serious and honest, there will be legislation for them to support on privacy, on oversight, on protecting children. well see whether they are serious. i hope they are. because big tech is facing its big tobacco moment. it is a moment of reckoning. >> hallie jackson reporting there. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg shared publicly an internal memo to staff on tuesday. he wrote, quote, we care deeply about issues like safety, well-being, and mental health....

Of an incoming president of the united states. that is with us today much more so than it was on january 7th. out there in this country of ours, there are millions of people, unfortunately, who have been fed this lie, who believe this lie, and now this lie is of such proportion that in state after state weve seen it play out. not just in arizona. in state after state, it threatens the very fundamentals of how we govern ourselves, of how we elect our leaders, and how we propose to go forward as a...

The head of the naacp is now demanding a meeting with ceo mark zuckerberg. he wants the company to take steps to mitigate the rise of white supremacist content influencing political discourse and potentially influencing the rise in voter suppression laws in minority areas. naacp president and ceo johnson joins us now, along with founding president of voto latino. an msnbc contributor. good to have you both with us this morning. >> derek, let me ask you, how much of a threat is facebook right now...

Fire. >> the companys leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram a saver, but dont make the changes because they put their astronomical profits before people. >> reporter: haugen insists congress must act against the company, holding the ceo to account. >> the buck stops with mark. >> reporter: haugen left facebook in may, armed with tens of thousands of internal documents, some showing the company knows its instagram app can contribute to eating disorders in teen girls. a characterizat...

The post that he made last night on his facebook page. the company remains pretty defiant and defensive. he dug in his heels. they say the company is being unfairly criticized, and that the research that frances haugen, the tens of thousands of pages, is taken out of context. and that everybody is getting it wrong. its almost like two parallel worlds that are being -- views of the world that exist right now, that within facebook and that of the rest of the world. however, what frances haugen did...

Elected officials, there are people screaming at the audience, that they dont want to get a vaccine to save their lives, to save the lives of their family members, to save the -- also, to not be selfish. not to just be selfish and driven by whether it is a personality cult or whether it is driven by a conspiracy theory. >> thank you, facebook, once again. it is a common thread throughout this show and throughout the -- >> i guarantee you, mika, majority of the people screaming were getting their...

Third on the other side that are just going to feet in cement, always expect the worst about the other side. its the people in the middle that you have to sway. with facebook, with an international platform that can spread lies the way it spreads lies, suddenly the conspiracy theories that were once hid in the darkest corners of the internet, darkest corners of bookstores where you could buy these paperback books saying lyndon johnson was a murderer, whatever, suddenly, thats coming into peoples...