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It follows them into their bedrooms. the last thing they see before they go to bed is someone being cruel or the first thing they see in the morning is someone being cruel to them. kids are learning their own friends, people who care about them are cruel to them. i would like to emphasize one of the documents on problematic use examined the rates of problematic use by age and that peaked with 14-year-olds, its just like cigarettes. teenagers dont have good self-regulation. they say explicitly i ...

Reports, never attended a decision point meeting with c level executives, and testified more than six times, in the subject matter of question. we dont agree with her characterization of the many issues she testified about. but so much of what she testified about is the truth, right, i mean, a lot of what shes saying about how these algorithms are designed, and what facebook and instagram is doing and what is happening on their platforms, weve documented, to our reporting, through reporting else...

Us live from capitol hill. so i mean, she just put to words what many people have been fearing for years about the algorithm of facebook, that it does much more harm than good, so where are we and what can lawmakers actually do? >> reporter: well, lawmakers can legislate to regulate and theres certainly a lot of indication from senators on both sides of the aisle who were at that hearing today that they would be willing to do that, that this seems like a bipartisan issue, and a lot of it is due ...

Have been a part of. ive frankly never seen such an effort to prepare for an election. >> why did you dissolve the civic integrity department which worked on misinformation before january 6th? >> we didnt dissolve that team. what we did was build a bigger team that that team became a part of, and in part thats because over the last few years with covid, with the election, with other matters that we had teams working on individually, we were learning about things like how to use informational lab...

Now, we need to do better for those who are having a bad experience, but thats exactly why we do this kind of research. we wouldnt ask these tough questions if we didnt care. were asking because we care. >> on a bigger issue, what about democracy, does facebook take any responsibility for what happened on january 6th since it allowed the big election lie, propagated by donald trump to proliferate on the site. >> the responsibility for january 6th, i cant be more closure about this, than to say t...

Said on 60 minutes. as these young women consume eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed, it actually makes them use the app more so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more. facebooks own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, it harms teenagers. its distinctly worse than other social media. do you deny that that research exists? >> there are -- theres research we have put out. in fact, we put out more than 400 resea...

Top of the hour, im alisyn camerota. >> im victor blackwell. the message from whistleblower frances haugen is that facebook should declare moral bankruptcy and seek help from congress. she testified in front of a senate committee today sf. >> shes the former employee of accusing the social media giant of knowing how harmful their algorithm is for children and our entire democracy. >> i believe facebooks products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. the companys leadership kno...

And that story we mentioned at the very end, this disinformation thats kind of massacre aiding in other texts. explain whats going on there. >> on facebook if you were to create a group that said the vaccine is filled with poison, you shouldnt take it that would get taken down very quickly. facebook does not allow that. so what are anti-vaxers doing to remain on the platform intheyre changing the names of their groups to dance party or dinner party or swim party or things like that. and once you...

Commissioner roger goodal, told teams this week if they had an outbreak among their players they would forfeit a game, and no player on either team would get paid for that week. could this be a model future companies might follow, or do we just need better information overall? some anti-vaccination groups on facebook are using coded language to spread this information without getting flagged by moderators. they substitute words like "dancing" for vaccination. so much to discuss this hour with ou...

In-group it should be able to trace thats the same account with a new name, right? >> yeah, hypothetically, right? sometimes they build up followers, anti-vaccine followers on facebook and ips tugram are not big famous people to regular parts of the planet, but they are big to people big in the national health community or already anti-vaccine to begin with, which so really facebooks next step is to look at this on the after level as theyd call it in terrorism, to look at it on the level of the ...