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Insurrection. nbc news confirms a whistleblower has come forward to accuse capitol police leadership of mishandling intelligence leading up to that day. it was a 16-page letter. in that letter the whistleblower outlines what it says were the failures of two top leaders specifically. it also blasts congress for not holding capitol police leadership accountable. nbc news political reporter sahil has the latest. walk us through the whistleblowers allegations and why theyre also blaming the, quote, ...

Going unup. theres an incentive structure. thats why we say the business model is the problem. of engagement at all costs means that the things people have searched, thats what goes viral and viralty is not safe for our country. >> that term viralty, it sounds so cold and clinical. let me ask you, lets look at the cover of time magazine. delete facebook. is what is being asked of people. there in that prompt over the face of mark zuckerberg. why do you think just to push back a little bit, i sup...

Defaults in the runup to the election because they knew they were dangerous and because they wanted that growth back, they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election, they returned to their original defaults. and the fact they had to break the glass on january 6th and turn them back on, i think thats deeply problematic. >> for its part, facebook released a statement after hoggins testimony calling her a former product manager that worked for the company for less than two yea...

Reactive and viral was the platform. facebook changed those safety defaults in the runup to the election because they knew they were dangerous. because they wanted that growth back after the election, they returned to their original defaults. the fact that they had to break the glass on january 6th and turn them back on, i think thats deeply problematic. >> agree. thank you very much for your bravery in coming forward. >> thank you. ive been arguing for some time that it is time for congress to ...

The choices that are happening on the platform are about how we acted to achieve the platform. how viral was the platform? facebook changed those safety defaults in the runup to the election because they knew they wanted that acceleration of the platform back. >> sandra: senator blackburn was in that hearing today. she will join us. but we begin with jackie. >> good afternoon. so interesting to watch this all morning. francis haugen had a lot to say. shes an employee with a conscious. >> the com...

Content on the system, the re-shares over the impacts to misinformation, hate speech, or violence incitement. >> reporter: haugen testifying to the senate about what the company did and did not do to confront the spread of misinformation leading up to the 2020 election and beyond. >> 60 minutes, you said that facebook implemented safeguards to reduce misinformation ahead of the 2020 election. but turned off those safeguards right after the election. and you know that the insurrection occurred ja...

Steered, essentially to conversations about annexia. being bullied by classmates. and miss haugen talking about violence and hate speech. and before the election, yes, facebook essentially turned it off, turned the switch to set a higher bar. but then reopened the floodgates. >> the choices that were happening on the platform were really about how we acted and twitchy was the platform, how viral was the platform. and facebook changed those safety defaults in the runup to the election because the...

I was actually -- i was actually at the game, and then i had to leave near the end. >> why did you leave? >> i cant say who we were speaking with, but we had reporting duty, and it was a very important -- >> thats not why you left. >> meeting, and my phone started blowing up. it was my friends about the red sox. mike, it was what, a terrible runup. swept last week. yankees lost two out of three to baltimore. they swept the nationals, and ive got to say, i went to all three games, and a packed pa...

Makes it to me even more frightening. >> what youre describing is the access of autocracy, these groups of people around the world. as malcolm touched on, steve bannon, the reason hes going to these countries is to show its a global movement with people of different countries aligning themselves in what we know is a bankrupt philosophy but has one clear goal. joy, id like to come back because i remember when we would warn, if you will, the american people in the runup to the 2016 election and we...

>> translator: and this future government, i think we all agree, should ensure prosperity, security, peace. and that is what we are standing here for. because we from the christian democratic union are making an offer for this. >> fred pleitgen is in berlin and joins me live. folks are still voting. it is a critical, critical election, what are they saying to you in. >> reporter: hi there, robbyn. voting is still in the early stages. more folks are now showing up to this polling station. of cour...