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Or anything other than trying to give the maximum number of people as much of a positive experience as possible. >> is that just words smithing. its exactly what advertising wants? >> in the dark of night when the news story past, all those advertisers came right back. >> exactly right. >> you hit the nail on the head. advertisers come to facebook, they look at how many times a day are you locking into facebook and theyre asking how many questions of whats being imposed. >> how many hours of the...

News, people actually see a lot more problematic content. >> i dont think we would have that kind of intelligence or information if this whistleblower had not brought that research to light. >> here is the thing, garrett. we didnt have this information from the whistleblower. its a shock to know them. should congress be? all of this is known and they have not done anything for years. >> we have not updated rules on the internet for years and years. >> yeah, look, we are giving congress way too m...

Haugens testimony, but also a question over how facebooks nearly 3 billion users were kicked offline for hours monday. what is the latest there? >> well, at this hour, jose, it is still not clear what exactly caused the outage at facebook, but we do foe that people inside that building were essentially standing around. thats what one employee told us, as not only our experience out in the public world was shut off on not just facebook, but also instagram, whatsapp, and the entire family of produ...

Coast guards, based on a visual inspection of the water. it was not until noon that the coast guard then alerted the public. that timeline is being heavily scrutinized right now, not only to ascertain when the oil started leaking but also the nature and speed of the response. in terms of the leak itself amplify yesterday said they believed they have found the potential source of the leak of 4.5 miles off the shore. confirming the leak have been found. all of that part of this ongoing investigati...

Reset the companys servers and break through the cages. its a utility and we are dependant on your company. >> i think that sort of goes directly to the point that you raised at the top of the interview which is the issue of regulation. one of the things as facebook is coming, we put in place numerous systems. we have transparency reports and we submit ourself to human rights and impact assessment and we ask for independent audit of our transparency reports so people have faith in our system. pe...

To unveil them to the world. ♪ on capitol hill right now a senate subcommittee is holding a hearing about keeping kids safe online. lets listen in. >> based on what i saw on allocation of integrity spending, i believe the "wall street journal" said about 85% of it is spent on english, it seems like facebook invests more on those who make more money. >> does it make sense that having a younger person get hooked on social media at a young age makes them more profitable at a young age? >> faceb...

Society. and she says, that is what is extremely problematic, and she says, that is what people need to know. jose? >> and leann, its important to say who she is. i mean, she had access when she was in facebook, to issues like the algorithms and the information that facebook gathers. >> thats absolutely right. her job was, in fact, to help this civil component of facebook, and she says, after the election, that they just shut it down. that there was nothing left to do. and so it was shut down in...

Having us decide that is not what people want. >> before we go, take your data and analytics hat, we are both women and we are both moms. when you think of mental health and bullying and body image issues. do you think social media platforms like facebook and instagram have done harm to our kids? >> as a mom, i would not be at the company if i thought social media has done harm to our children. do i think that parents deserve to have better tools and more insights and to what their kids are doin...

Anywhere. my colleague, jose diaz-balart picks up coverage right now. >> good morning, stephanie ruhle. its 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 a.m. pacific. im jose diaz-balart. and the stage is indeed set for yet another tough day for facebook. any minute now, one of the companys former project managers is set to testify on what she calls the companys betrayal of democracy. this comes one day after the worlds largest social media company went dark for over five hours after a technical glitch. also on cap...

Her lawyers are alleging facebook does violate the law because what it says in public is contradicted by this private internal research and thats one of the reasons she had released this research to the wall street journal and going public in the most public of ways, pamela, on one of the biggest shows on television trying to call out facebook. >> of course, facebook tried to get ahead of this. a top executive appeared with you on reliable sources. what more do we expect to hear from facebook an...