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Mass-manufactured. >> these chips can control the flow of electrical current that in effect enables them to store and remember zillions of bits of information on a surface just a little bit thicker than an eggshell and smaller than a fingernail. >> this silicon chip supplies the brainpower for 1,001 electronic gadgets from wristwatches to microwave ovens. >> the mushrooming industry gives birth to a new high-tech cult and a place called silicon valley. >> the magic part of silicon valley is that...

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Take us through the context of this. what is your reporting based on and what were the -- do in creating these profiles. >> yeah, hey, chris. so this was one of tens of thousands of documents that we have been poring over looking at the documents that whistleblower frances haugen has handed over to the sec and congress. a lot of these documents were also the basis of those blockbuster "wall street journal" reports we saw. so weve been poring over these documents and this is one of many example o...

Abdication of responsibility. how are we expected to ignore when leadership overrides research-based policy decisions to better serve people like the groups inciting violence today? joining us now are nbc news correspondent jake ward, and early facebook investor roger mcnamee, also the author of "zucked." give us a sense what have stood out to you and what did you hear back from facebook as did you your reporting? >> geoff, whats extraordinary is these are not documents and complaints being rais...

In some of the internal reports we saw them building upon research that had already been done with youtube to see how the video and recommendation machines pushed people into rabbit holes. we see the same things at other social media companies. the thing that stands out is that facebook really does have the industry leading in-house research organization. they have geniuses with ph.d.s working with them to figure out problems. theyve done a good job. the documents show through the heart breaking...

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And health care workers, mind you, have been vaccinated about, some of them, seven to eight months ago and they may have significantly waning immunity. >> ana, lets turn to the poll now. take a listen to this and then well talk. >> when the president of the united states is losing patience, hes losing patience with ph.d.s. they are one of the largest sections of people who arent getting the shot. medical workers as well as african-americans. because only four of ten have gotten the shot. why doe...

Follow. as i just mentioned, theres a new justice department report indicating that more americans are reported to have died from 9/11-related illnesses than were killed on 9/11. it also shows that the victim compensation fund has referred claims from every state, and puerto rico and the virgin islands, what do you make of the shear number of claims and illness, especially in light of all of the hard work that you and your fellow activists have had to make? >> we said this years ago, that this w...