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 that s 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 years, had no direct reports and never attended a decision point meeting and testified more than six times to not work on the subject matter in question adding we do not agree with the characterization about the testimonies. joining me is assistant professor of law at st. john s university and nbc news senior reporter ben collins. ben, we ve been talking about a lot of misinformation spread like this fake version of critical race theory and anti mask stuff and qanon. we talked a lot about qanon and
the democrats will raise the ceiling. we ll get into that. it s 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 research earning billions. the family is seeking justice and tonight s absolute worst drops the f bomb while preaching say vil civility. the reidout continues after this. civility. the reidout continues after this
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. facebook s own research says they cannot adequately identify dangerous content and as a result, those dangerous algorithms they admit are picking up the stream sentence of division. they can t protect us from the harps they know exist in their own system. she also filed a whistle blower complaint with the securities and exchange commission accusing facebook of misrepresenting problems with the platforms to investors. one of the eight complaints outlines how facebook knew it had a problem. the complaint said facebook s
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 they re worried about the vaccine, they re gravitating toward that content and facebook is rewarding them for clicking on it. whether it s children whose self-esteem is destroyed or grandparents, it feels like the algorithm treats them the same way. is that true? there is some truth to that. i want to double down on what ben said. there is a bunch here we already knew and well aware of from various places that was not as comprehensively given to us is what francis and ms. hoggin has
I want to bring up, joy, to us facebook is a lot of things. it s 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 they re 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 from the internet at this point, you are it might bleed out. there is a lot going on with now facebook operates with communities all throughout the world and it s really banking. it s their business for a lot of people. it s almost too big to make it fail. kate, ben, thank you both very much. still ahead on reidout the