Extracting Facebook News Today

Defaults in the runup to the election because they knew they were dangerous and because they wanted that growth back, they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election, they returned to their original defaults. and the fact they had to break the glass on january 6th and turn them back on, i think thats deeply problematic. >> for its part, facebook released a statement after hoggins testimony calling her a former product manager that worked for the company for less than two yea...

>> the democrats will raise the ceiling. >> well get into that. its a long conversation. thank you very much. adam, thank you very much. please come back soon. up next on "the reidout." >> no one truly understands the destructive choices made by facebook except facebook. >> the facebook whistle blower bombshell allegations the social media giant turned a blind eye to destructive misinformation in the name of profit and her cells have been used for some of the biggest breakthroughs in medical r...

Children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. >> facebook whistle blower francis hoggens spelled out differences against the social media giant she called morally bankrupt in congressional testimony today. she told senators facebook prioritizes profit over public safety in steering users towards toxic content detrimental to the mental health of young users and undermining our democracy. >> facebooks own research says they cannot adequately identify dangerous content and as a result, those d...

Self-harm, they develop feed book cycles where children are using instagram to self-soothe but then exposed to more and more content than makes them hate themselves. >> when i hear that they too are gravitating toward content that feeds what they want to hear already if theyre worried about the vaccine, theyre gravitating toward that content and facebook is rewarding them for clicking on it. whether its children whose self-esteem is destroyed or grandparents, it feels like the algorithm treats t...

I want to bring up, joy, to us facebook is a lot of things. its a way to read the news and get your ivermectin conspiracy and things to us but throughout the world, facebook is commerce. facebook is selling things and having your own small business. in india, there are phones that were bricked yesterday like not usable because theyre so tied up in the facebook ecosystem because they were given away by facebook to communities over the last five to ten years there. the idea of extracting facebook ...

Facebook not only knew about it but put it on paper. this woman had access to basically an internal wiki. something most people had access to. most people in the company at facebook continue to have access to. everyone at the company knows about this. thats what is troubling here is that the dangers of this company are known internally. facebook wont admit what specific dangers they are but say they need regulation until we even know what is under the hood there, we cant begin to make that regul...

Own experiments show the algorithm can veer people interested in conservative topics into radical or polarizing ideas in groups and pages and sites a facebook study that new users that follow the quote verified high quality conservative pages such as fox news or the former president saw polarizing content within a day and quote conspiracy recommendations within two days. it tookless than a week to get a qanon recommendation. >> facebook has been emphasizing a false choice. they said the safeguar...

Pshh, mines so fast, no one can catch me. big whoop! mine gives me a 4k streaming box. -for free! thats because you all have the same internet. xfinity xfi. so powerful, it keeps one-upping itself. can your internet do that? here today because i believe facebook products harm

>> the scale, ben, is that everything is facebook. instagram is facebook. whats app is facebook. theyre in all these different aspects of your life. its if you get one of one platform, the other ones have alorithm behavior and the u bicty of it makes it feel like a monster and brings out other conspiracy theories. that outage yesterday, lots of conspiracy theories. people say hey, i wonder if that is to try to make -- do we know anything about what that outage is about? because it also showed ho...