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They havent reached out to you. um, they say cbs 60 minutes ran a segment that used select company materials to tell a misleading story about the research we do to improve our products. the segment also disregards the significant investments we make to keep people safe on our platform. we continue to make significant improvements to tackle the spread of misinformation and harmful content. to suggest we encourage bad content and do nothing is just not true. so, when you hear that, andrew, are you...

To underline what you saw in that report there. the senators office set up an instagram account designed to look like it was a 13-year-old girl and instagram began pushing pro-eating disorder accounts to this 13-year-old after the account searched and followed a few accounts that were talking about anorexia and were glorifying eating disorders. but instagram was feeding into that. erin. >> donie, thank you very much. its so disturbing. i want to go now to andrew. he is a lawyer representing fa...

Transparency about these algorithms. people need to know why certain things jump on their news feed on facebook. we just -- and -- and i think that regulators can do something about that. there also is the question of whether anti-trust action and -- and breaking up the facebook monopoly might be helpful. if you have more wholesome competitors, together, with transparency who are rewarded by -- by people for -- for doing the right thing, and not advancing hateful speech and conspiracy theories. ...

>> um, facebook does require all of its employees to sign nondisclosure agreements. and they are very strict. so theoretically, facebook could try to make a case that shed violated it. um, that said, there is protection for people who report things to the government as whistle-blowers -- um -- which obviously shes pursued those protections. >> all right. well, we will see. i mean, this is pretty stunning and, you know, again, congratulations on all your reporting. its been fascinating to read it...

Know, hate -- hate sells. keeps people online. conspiracy theories sell. keeps people online. appeals to resentment sells. keeps people online. and theyve -- and -- and theyve -- theyve become the vehicle for radicalization. and that is very, very dangerous. how does it happen that an -- that a -- an oddball cult like qanon now has millions and millions and millions of adherents and two members of congress, two followers in congress? how is it that republicans, up to 78% of republicans in one po...

>> in terms of if you are asking if there is any link between the reporting thats come out recently about them and this or the whistle-blower, i -- i think coincidence, very definitely. this is facebook basically managed to disconnect itself from the internet at large. um, just kind of the map of the internet. they are kind of -- severed those ties briefly. they are back up now and -- or at least in the process of restoring across a whole bunch of services and this is just hugely damaging to the...

Things? and it sounds like they are not even able to know or to figure tou out how to get themselves back connected to the internet. its pretty incredible they are out for six hours and they dont seem to know what happened. that should be pretty terrifying to people. >> theres been a lot of concerns and just to tie this back into some of the kind of concerns about content and regulation of the platform. about complexity at facebook and about the companys ability to manage the extremely convolute...

Government regulators. and its her against a trillion-dollar company. so to say that, you know, she is intimidated. perhaps, a little bit by a trillion-dollar company is not an understatement. >> all right. well, andrew, i appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> obviously, tomorrow, crucial day to hear ms. haugens testimony. i want to go now to david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama. david, because you tweeted these algorithms and alg rigm, its a method, its a ...

Tools in which they can take to effect positive change. to mitigate against hate, against viral misinformation because one thing i just want to point out is that facebook is a vehicle by which misinformation spreads globally. it has impacted children here in the united states, and it has impacted even individuals as far as myanmar where there was a genocide that was influenced by facebook. >> so, one specific facebook -- um -- claim -- one claim they take issue with is the one about the instagra...

Accounts concerning eating disorders and personal intrigue. >> instagram said eternally starved i have to be thin skin and bone, the account it had promoted through its algorithm broke the companys rules encouraging eating disorders but they only removed the accounts after being contacted by cnn. >> this experience shows very graphically how these claims to protect children or take down accounts that may be dangerous to them are absolute hogwash. in fact, it was not taken down until cnn brought ...