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I want to stay with ms. davis and some of her comments. i had asked her last week about the underage users and she had made the comment im going to quote from her testimony. if we find an account of someone who is under 13, we remove them. and in the last three months we removed 600,000 accounts of under 13 year olds, end quote. i have to tell you, it seems to me that there is a problem if you have 600,000 accounts from children who ought not to be there in the first place. so what did mark zuck...

Audience. so facebook only cares about children to the extent theyre of monetary value. last week, facebooks global head of safety, antigone davis, told me that facebook does not allow targeting of certain harmful content to teens. miss davis stated we dont allow weight loss ads to be shown to people under the age of 18, yet a recent study found that facebook permitted targeting of teens as young as 13 that show a young womans thin waist and websites that promote anorexia. do you think facebook ...

And i asked ms. davis representing facebook about how the decision was made whether to pause permanently instagram for kids and she said quote, there is no one person who makes a decision like that. we think about it that collaboratively. its as though she couldnt mention mark zuckerbergs name. isnt he the one who will be making this decision from your experience in the company? >> mark holds a very unique role in the tech industry in that he holds over 55% of all the voting shares for facebook....

Talk about the importance of getting younger users like tweens onto instagram because they know that children bring their parents online and things like that. they understand the value of younger users for the long-term success of facebook. >> facebook reported advertising revenue to be $51 per user last quarter in the u.s. and canada. when i asked ms. davis how much of that came from instagram users under 18, she wouldnt say. do you think teens are profitable for their company? >> i would assum...

Able to do market research on these children that are under age 13. mrs. davis was really -- she didnt deny this last week. so how are they doing this? do they bring kids into focus groups with their parents? how do they get that permission? she said they got permission from parents. is there a permission slip or a form that gets signed? and then how do they know which kids to target? >> there is a bunch to unpack there. how did they recruit children for focus groups? or recruit teenagers. most ...

And positive space. this is rhetoric were going to be hearing certainly throughout the week and from their officials. we have not heard from mark zuckerberg. we have not heard from sheryl sandberg. but other top officials at facebook coming forward to speak this week, stephanie. >> but heres the thing. this hearing is going to happen tomorrow. its going to be explosive. were going to say, i cant believe this. i cant believe were not hearing from cheryl, i cant believe were not hearing from mark....

I think people who have been watching the tech industry know facebooks core business model, right? hagan says facebook was fundamentally opposed to a private experience. with engagement, people are angry, thats what gets the clicks. i want to play for you how ms. davis responded to this line of questioning here. watch. >> so is the core business model something facebook is willing to look at in order to improve peoples safety on the site? >> i think its sort of a short-sighted way of thinking ab...

On September 30, Antigone Davis, Facebook's global head of safety, was grilled by the US Senate during a hearing on the company's products' effects on teens.

And bridges and ports and airports and broadband. they have joined in the bipartisan investment in physical assets, but not in the human beings through education, healthcare, climate change, universal childcare and a fair tax program. >> i want to turn to facebook. this hugely important issue of social media. as a parent, i agonize over this. and im sure there are so many out there who do. newly published internal documents reveal the negative impact of the company platforms have on teenagers. i...