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Research on children and in an explosive "60 minutes" interview. >> rather than taking responsibility and showing leadership, mr. zuckerberg is going sailing. his new modus operandi, no apologies, no acknowledgment. nothing to see here. >> no one is holding ing mark accountable but himself. >> reporter: they said she only work foed for the company for t years. had no c-level meetings with execu executives. but facebook does agree it is time for congress to make laws to regulate big tech. >> if y...

To have blind trust in them. facebook has not earned our trust. >> today is unlikely to be the last day well see haugen up here on capitol hill. senator blumenthal mentioned that that committee may bring her back to speak even more about the harms of instagram and facebook can have on children and teenagers and representative adam schiff mentioned yesterday that he may ask her to speak to the house select committee on january 6th to talk about facebooks possible role there. possible culpability ...

Welcome to "the lead." this hour, delta versus delta. will the airline join all its other major competitors and require vaccines for employees. shes now producing a series on the scandal that forever changed her life as well as a new hbo max documentary on people who have had their lives ruined in the internet age. monica lewinsky will join me live. first, leading this hour, damning tell-all testimony from a facebook whistleblower who claims the company is well aware its social media feeds a...

Technology causes teenagers. >> kids bullied on instagram, the bullying follows them home. follows them into their bedrooms. >> i think were going to look back 20 years from now and all of us are going to be like, what in the hell were we thinking when we recognize the damage thats done to a generation of kids. >> reporter: haugens call to action, its time for congress to vote to regulate facebook. >> the companys leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer, but wont make the neces...

Safety of your children. take a listen. >> they have to make sure that next generation is just as engaged with instagram as the current one. and the way theyll do that is by making sure that children establish habits before they have good self-regulation. >> by hooking kids? >> by hooking kids. >> not to mention all the damage facebook is doing to democracies around the world. and as this whistleblower came forward this week, facebooks ceo zuckerberg was posting video of his sailing trip as his ...

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Klobuchar for becoming behind the issue as well. again, i think both sides. this is an issue of right versus wrong not right versus left. so i believe were going to see people on both sides embracing reform. this isnt capitalism. i spent my whole life as a capitalist. whats going on -- >> thats fair to remind people, you make your company from investing km companies. >> thats my whole career, building things that make peoples lives better. that is not what these people are doing. the products ar...

Credit card history from credit card processors, the stuff they get from your cellar company on locations, health and wellness applications. >> the aggregation of that stuff -- they know more about you than you will ever know. >> its not just that. initially it was about targeting ads and its its about changing behavior. google invented this in 2002 and what they realized as they were improving the search engine, they got extra data that did not help the search engine but predicted behavior. onc...

Can be built into a privacy type of platform. >> so, ali, there are two parts of what he said. one part i really love. the part where he said they were no longer going to base operations in countries that had a history of either human rights violations or privacy violations, which means no china. it means getting out of vietnam and maybe the philippines and cambodia, which would be an amazing thing if they did it. i would support that enormously. the privacy part is total nonsense and its nonsen...

Verizon. as a citizen, i want to ask the question, why is any of that legal? why is it legal for there to be a third party market in our most private information, our credit card stuff, our health stuff, location? >> and elizabeth warren seems to agree with you. she has a plan under which facebook would be declared a platform utility because it has a annual global revenue of more than $25 billion, as other tech companies, would be barred from owning the platform and any company that participates...