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Disinformation, renee. >> so we were trying to describe this dynamic. my team has stanford was looking at the election kind of as outside researchers while those groups were forming, while that activity was happening. and i felt increasingly that misinformation was an absolutely inadequate word. it implies a falsifybility, and thats not the kind of content we were seeing. some of it was. allegations that the election were fraudulent, for example, very much falsifiable and the platform was trying...

I saw in there that after three weeks there was actually a recommendation for a page that was the 3%-ers, the militia, self-described militia involved in the insurrection. >> no, again, weve suspected this dynamic. whats strike being what frances has revealed is that we now know that facebook itself saw this precisely. so these are like potato chips that they feed to somebody whos got a potato chip addiction. and that is the reality of the platform. it is an addiction engine, and it profits the ...

Come up with solutions. at least on the part of the researchers, the data scientists, and i would say many of the security team experts that work within facebook, there seem to have been an abundant appetite. i remember reading in one of the notes, somebody saying, you know, ive been up every night this week, i worked the last three weekends because this is keeping me awake at night and i want to figure it out. i cant say that same appetite , that same drive to solve the problem was seen among t...

Weeks, there was actually a recommendation for a page that was the three percenters. the militia self-described militia involved in the insurrection. >> right. yeah. no i mean, again, weve suspected this dynamic. >> yeah. >> whats striking about what frances is revealed is that we now know that facebook, itself, saw this precisely. so, these are like potato chips that they feed to somebody whos got a potato chip addiction and that is the reality of the platform. it is an addiction engine and it ...

Weeks there was actually a recommendation for a page that was the three percenters, the self-described militia involved in the insurrection. >> again, we suspected this dynamic. we know now facebook itself saw this precisely. so these are like potato chips they feed to someone whos got a potato chip addiction. and that is the reality of the platform. it is an addiction engine, and it profits the more it can manipulate us to consume what we want to consume most. >> reporter: and as you might expe...

Workplace. advocating for better pay, better benefits, but also safer and more sustainable working conditions. like i said, this activism as included the entertainment industry, just this past week, its only been a couple of days since tens of thousands of workers in hollywoods biggest stage crew union, threatened to all walk off the job to demand better and safer working conditions. but we are starting to learn tonight, as we continue to get new information, that this dynamic of workers demandi...

Rock. you cant take credit for all of that and then say, oh, that thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to do with it. >> reporter: another revelation, internal memos including a staffer setting up a test account to see what the algorithms were putting out to users. they set up an account designed to look like a 41-year-old conservative mom living in north carolina. her name is carol smith. she likes a few pages, she likes trump, she likes fox news, but in a week shes getting a qanon rec...

Beyond the immediate tragedy here and the absolutely flummoxing mystery of what went wrong and how it could have gone wrong, this story does also intersect in an interesting way with the story weve been watching unfold over the country in recent weeks, right, where american workers of all kinds in all sorts of different industries have been advocating for changes in their workplace, advocating for, you know, better pay, better benefits, but also safer and more sustainable working conditions. lik...

Thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to do with that. >> reporter: another revelation from the documents, an internal memo including details of a facebook staffer setting up a test account to see what facebooks algorithms were recommending to users. 2019, a facebook employee sets up an account designed to look like a 41-year-old conservative mom live north carolina income. her name is carol smith. she likes a few pages. she likes trump. she likes fox news. but in a week, shes getting a ...

You cant take credit for all of that and then say, oh, that thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to do with that. >> reporter: another revelation from the documents, an internal memo including details of a facebook staffer setting up a test account to see what facebooks algorithms were recommending to users. 2019, a facebook employee sets up an account designed to look a 41-year-old conservative mom living in north carolina. her name is carol smith. she likes a few pages. she likes trum...