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From the sec and civil lawsuits and perhaps for congress to get involved in some way as well. >> a.b., one of the most alarming moments in the testimony was this when frances talked about the correlation between disinformation and acts of violence like we saw on january 6th. listen to this. >> facebook has been emphasizing a false choice. they said the safeguards that were in place before the election implicated free speech. the choices that were happening on the platform were really about how r...

Everybody respond in sort of a universal way, were all really disgusted and really discouraged by what shes revealed, its going to be really hard to believe that in this polarized environment, republicans and democrats will come together on a solution and actually sign a thing into law to address this threat. >> i was going to say to that point, the problem daniel is that you have facebook becoming really a hot bed of right wing disinformation and people rely on that disinformation to mobilize t...

Home, brian. all right. well outfront now, michael smerconish, host of cnns smerconish. so, michael, today on capitol hill, you know, something that seemed to finally unite many democrats and republicans was their frustration and anger at facebook. senator after senator from both parties were placing blame on facebook saying it needs to be fixed. um, okay. but should the government be involved in fixing? >> if facebook doesnt fix itself, erin, i think the government will have no choice. i mean...

Tonight, facebook trying to save face. the social media giant hitting back at whistle-blower frances haugen after her compelling testimony under oath before congress today. for more than thee hours, haugen answered questions from senators about the massive trove of internal documents, thousands of pages that she has and that shes now put out there, that shes leaked and her claims that the company put profits before people. brian stelter was there, and he is outfront. >> the only way we can move ...

Assistant attorney for the southern district of new york, now msnbc analyst. and a.b. is back with us. nick, ill start with you. this conversation around big tech, certainly facebook and its role in our lives, it has been around now for a couple of years, but is this time different? is this a watershed moment now that we have a whistleblower with these documents captivating the attention of lawmakers in a way that is based on facebooks internal communications? >> i think it absolutely is. and fo...

Violence to human trafficking to the toxic effect on the self-esteem of teens and in the wake of that global outage yesterday, haugen made this incredible statement pointing out how crucial facebook has become to all of our lives. take a listen. >> for more than five hours, facebook wasnt used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies. it also means that millions of small businesses werent able to reach potential customers. and countles...

Consumers are obsessed with being on facebook, hey, facebook can tell them we have your attention of five or six hours a day. its all going to come back. >> is this an embarrassment for congress? >> no matter how representable behavior, well find out is all illegal. >> congress has had a monstrous, its once upon a time they looked at these giant american based technical companies as an important allies and important signs of american innovation and know companies innovated so fast. >> that congr...

Testified more than six times to not working on the subject matter in question. we dont agree with her characterization of the many issues she testified about. among the most damming statements she made about facebook, she compared the company to big tobacco and pharmaceutical companies that make opioids. the only solution she says is for the government to get involved. >> when we realize big tobacco was hiding the harms it caused, the government took action. when we figured out cars were safer ...

That. >> eating disorders have the highest mortality rates in women. im concerned the algorithms have outrageous content promoting anorexia and the like. do you think their algorithms push some of this content to young girls? >> facebook knows the way they pick the content in instagram amplifies preferences. they have done something called a proactive incident response where they take things theyve heard, for example, like can you be led by the algorithms to anorexia content and they have litera...

In just a couple committee sessions. i think thats two parts to it. one, the biggest offenders are also on capitol hill but the problem goes well beyond capitol hill and all the way around the world as well. >> once we start adding more and more a.i. to things like social media, we are five steps away from sky net. kara, i want to make sure we get to this. facebook also owns instagram and theres been a lot of discussion about how instagram has affected young people, affected self-esteem. i want ...