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Information. unless there is government intervention and also a deeper savvy among the american public of what is going on in facebook, itll be a pandemic. right now, were an epidemic. when people say, why is disinformation targeting minority groups of color? we did a program targeting those individuals that were marginalized, on the fence of whether or not to take the covid vaccine because of the bad spread of the disinformation in the latino community. how does not believing in the covid vacci...

People who have been coming to us for their entire lives, weve delivered their babe byes, taken care of their children, taken care of them when they get sick, family members get sick, neighbors get sick, we are a community. for the first time, theyre coming to us and saying, "we dont believe you. we dont trust you." that is the power of exactly what you guys are talking about here. this misinformation. we now live in a culture, as we just discussed in the last hour, where nurses and doctors in t...

Posts. >> it is like the department of transportation regulating cars by only watching them drive down the highway. >> reporter: from facebook and aggressive defense,. >> what you have here today is a former employee who didnt work on these issues and was just at the company a couple of years mischaracterizing documents she stole. >> seems to me an attempt by facebook to undermine her credibility. is your strategy to go after the messenger and not the message? >> hallie, our strategy is to make ...

League and many others. we begin to see where there was a synagogue in pittsburgh or a black church in charleston or louisville, kentucky, the common denominator was facebook. at some point, were going to have to address it. get in front of the narrative. not allow zuckerberg and the group to say theyre going to do something. in fact, we should be talking about anti-trust right now. it is too big of a company to spread the harm to individuals and communities and also our democracy. >> mike barni...

Encouraged them to get the shots. mitch mcconnell has been a real champion, critical of what he is doing on the debt ceiling and other things, but mitch has been a real champion from the very beginning about getting the vaccine. saying he doesnt understand why people arent getting the vaccines. we have coaches in the deep south, the s.e.c., trying to get their people to get vaccinated. still, eddie, we sound like a one-trick pony here, were not. if it is the pony thats running over the fabric of...

From the pittsburgh synagogue on. it is ridiculous that in the united states senate, we cant have a committee to sit down and find out exactly the damage that facebook is doing on an hourly basis in this country. >> you know, it is unfortunate. facebook has pretty much become a sovereign nation within a sovereign nation. pretty much untouchable not only in the united states but around the globe. were seeing the same problem over and over. its impacting our elections. its impacting our health car...

And competitors, how the company does choose algorithms that are proprietary and competitive to them. this is researchers being able to see how companies function, like facebook, and theyre able to spread harmful content. so i do think its a level of conversation that is substantial and gets much more to the heart of the problems that facebook poses. so that felt very new to me and encouraging, frankly. >> the book is "an ugly truth, inside facebooks battle for domination." cecelia kang, thank y...

It is so distressing. dont really know, peter baker, how to break through on this. but the misinformation, weve seen it spread with covid. before that, we saw it spread with masks. before that, we saw it spread with a pandemic. we saw it spread during lies of the political campaign. >> january 6th. >> we saw it spread on january 6. we saw actually facebook being used to actually help organize the january 6th riots. the testimony that were seeing on the hill really does seem to be like the tip of...

Things other than economics. i think democrats have made the mistake for some time saying, lets just look at how people are doing economically. they ignore the cultural components. they ignore the resentment. they ignore the elite on the other side. in the gap is where politicians like donald trump go in. in great britain, boris johnson. they just sweep up thousands and thousands of votes in factory towns that used liberals. now they go for conservatives. >> joe, there is a way in which weve exp...

Ms. haugen said. which is the core of the problem is the systems. it is a beating heart problem where the systems, the algorithms, promote the most engaging and the most agitating content, which often can be very harmful content. >> cecelia, it is pretty incredible. we just showed mike pence talking about the january 6th riots. the seditious riots against the united states of america. they were trying to hang him. his only defense was, its the medias fault. mark zuckerberg, in responding to face...