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This country recently. you dont want to create a federal agency that does that, but this idea that researchers could get ahold of facebooks information and figure things out better than facebook does without the agenda facebook had could be very powerful. another thing is antitrust, it just is. these companies are too big. i think so much of the focus has been on the content itself. if there are more companies youre going to get more diversity, and that is the thing that is stymieing a lot of st...

Guy, he and she, they dont want to be protected. theyre saying well -- just like the big guys do. how do you protect them when they say, no, we want no rules? >> first, i agree we all have a role. ultimately its about savers, its investors for their retirement and their future, whether thats a small amount of money or a large amount of money. so i totally agree, but what our rules are about is to protect folks against fraud, against somebody misleading them in the market, but also about trying t...

Surface the whistle-blower and facebook agree on, which seems crazy, but they agree on you. they both say congress needs to step in. so does the general public. what are you going to do about it? >> thats a very interesting contention from mark zuckerberg who evidently is back from sailing. hes discovered, i think, that they do, in fact, have a big tobacco moment, a moment of reckoning and now he is throwing these vague terms saying theyre already transparent. false. that they would regulation. ...

With my co-sponsor lindsey graham. its bipartisan just as the fury yesterday was bipartisan. but facebook spends millions of dollars to hire armies of lobbyists to put ads opposing real regulation. now, i think we are at an inflection point. i dont like the tipping point analogy, but i think the kind of very strong bipartisan support for real reform that we saw yesterday -- i dont minimize the difficulties of achieving legislation and your previous panel was absolutely right. it has to be multif...

Biggest covid hot spots from over the summer where hospitalizations are now falling and vaccinations are ticking up. plus, the impact of vaccine mandates, big business, the ceo of united airlines will be here to talk about how the companys latest move is paying off big time. you know were beginning with this morning facebook, ceo mark zuckerberg finally weighing in overnight insisting that his company is the victim of a, quote, false narrative. at the same time, he is saying he is open to regu...

About facebook driving harmful content toward children, aggravating misinformation through the ways that it amplifies and weaponizes untruths and harmful content, i think we will drive the dialogue and legislation forward. >> but sir -- >> it will take effort, theres no question. >> were you genuinely surprised, yes, we hadnt physically seen those documents, but any person in our personal life who comes over for dinner and tells us some absolutely dangerous crazy conspiracy theory almost always ...

We need action from congress. >> the question is what is that going to look like? lets bring in some experts, nbc capitol hill correspondent alley vitale, nbcs jacob ward who covers technology. cecilia wong, tech editor at "new york times," and kara swisher "new york times" contributor, co-host of the pivot podcast and host of the sway podcast. kara, everyone is saying this is a huge disaster for facebook. its a nightmare, but is this anything more than a pr problem? lets review. user growth is ...

On right now with a lot of these issues. and even though mark zuckerberg has always said we want regulation, the fact of the matter is congress hasnt acted at all, so at this point facebook is just being facebook and people who are in charge of the government need to think about what are the various things they can do from data protection to figuring out how to deal with content moderation the correct way to making the system more transparent, and so it really is up to congress. its absolutely t...

Just one report but a series of reports that they hid and concealed and denied existed, and then they went on maximizing profit when they knew about the pain they were causing children and others and the disinformation they were spreading. so not surprised by what the study showed but that facebook had these thousands of pages of documents, yes, and heres one more point, stephanie, keep in mind. the s.e.c., securities and exchange commission, has claims from ms. haugen asking for an investigatio...

Google, youre going to get all of these -- youre going to immediately go to websites that are fda approved websites saying this does nothing to help with covid. you do that same search in facebook, the first eight out of ten recommendations are, man, this is great to ward off covid. couldnt facebook do a whole lot to ward this off on their own? google does. >> absolutely. i think what struck me about zuckerbergs letter overnight is this idea that facebook has always been tremendously transparent...