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Misinformation or misinformation on facebook in the run-up to the 2020 election coied thousands of pages of internal documents before leaving facebook earlier this year. those form the basis of the complaints she filed last month with the securities and exchange commission claiming the tech giant hides what its own research says but the platform amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest. >> to quote from another one of the documents you brought out, we have evidence from a variety of s...

Divisive political speech, and misinformation on facebook and the family of apps, are affecting societies around the world. >> when we live in an information environment that is full of angry hateful polarizing content, it erodes our civic trust, our faith in each other and inroads our ability to want to care for each other. the version of facebook that is listed today is tearing our societies apart and causing violence around the world. >> in addition she announced that the algorithm deliberate...

Global outage preventing users from accessing three of the platforms. facebook, instagram, and whatsapp. its preparing for potentially damning testimony. by a whistleblower. she left the company in may and took tens of thousands of documents. she says the documents proves facebook cares more about the bottom line than societys well being. >> facebook has shown it chooses profit over safety. it is subsidizing, paying for the profits with our safety. >> se she also says facebook has profited off p...

Facebook will be facing tough new scrutiny when a whistle-blower testifies on testify before a senate subcommittee. it comes after the whistle-blower, who was revealed tonight to be francis wagen, leaked documented to "the wall street journal." it shows they knew the platforms were, quote, riddled with flaws that caused harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. the whistle-blower spoke to cbs news in an interview that ran earlier tonight on "60 minutes." >> when we live in an infor...

Intelligence is giving us. we have said havfrom the very beginning of this were going to try to do this in a safe and orderly way. that means making sure nobody gets hurt to the maximum extent possible. so what youre seeing out of our state department colleagues, i think, is a prudent notification to make sure that whatever movement there is from the gates from outside the airport is done as safely as possible, and that people have the information they need to make the best decisions for themsel...

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Details about the threat environment or what -- or what our intelligence has given us. weve said from the very beginning of this that were going to try to do this in a safe and orderly way and that means making sure that nobody gets hurt to the maximum extent possible. so what youre seeing out of our state department colleagues, i think, is a prudent notification to make sure that whatever movement there is to the gates from outside the airport is done as safely as possible and that people have ...

General who has issued a report that says facebook is hazardous to your health. in 1964 the surgeon general said cigarettes are hazardous. facebook is polluting our information environment. people have a right to post anything they want. i believe that, as long as it comports with the terms of service of facebook. what facebook does is they algorithmically augment that content. they supercharge the misleading and dangerous and force feed that to innocent people and i think the president is exact...

Was a credible theory a year ago but was called misinformation because it was inconvenient information that people didnt want to discuss and that was actively censored on social media platforms when it shouldnt have been. so i worry a little bit about what will be actively censored now from apparently marching orders from the executive of the united states. >> paul, is this censorship? >> no. not even close. its just nonsense, im sorry, but i actually took the time to read dr. vivek murthys repo...