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Remedies might congress take in the wake of these hearings? one thing that had been considered, which seems like a dramatic step, is the congressman asking to have access to the algorithm facebook uses when they promote things in feeds. it is basically their secret sauce, like their secret ingredient. id have to think theyd fight tooth and nail before letting that go. walk us through, what could happen here? >> yeah. theres a new discussion in washington, very much prompted by frances haugen, th...

Instagram safer but wont make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. >> reporter: whistle-blower frances haugen insisting congress must act against a company she says is misleading the public, promoting hateful and harmful content, holding its ceo to account >> in the end the buck stops with mark. >> reporter: haugen left facebook in may, armed with tens of thousands of internal documents including some she says showing the company knows its instagr...

Somebody said. ahead of the football coaches are the family doctor theyve known for a generation. >> joe, youre making this really important point, and i think this is really important for us to wrap our minds around. its not that folks are just mindlessly following politicians. this is ecosystem. facebook is at the heart of it. the other news network is at the heart of it. it is an ecosystem producing a way of seeing the world that, in some ways is not -- not some ways, it is undermining our de...

Immigrants. why? it was because of the disinformation thats being spread on facebook and whats app. the haitian migration thats coming in and out through haiti but coming from brazil and because of chile is a coordinated effort from foreign governments, encouraging us to have an issue at the border. we have to recognize that the root causes of this right now facebook doesnt have repercussion. we have to be weary of the information folks are consuming. there has to be some sort of seal of approva...