Systems Inside Facebook News Today

Polarizing content. conspiracy theory recommendations started on day two. after about a week the account received a k non-- q anon. two, false content, and week three the accounts news feed was an intensifying mix of misinformation, misleading and recycled content polarizing memes and con smirsy content dispersed with engagement bait. >> you can sy why are we taking the incredibly out there topics q anon, why are these things facebook is choosing to show you and its because those things get the ...

>> odonnell: good evening, and thank you so much for joining us. we want to begin tonight with what has been a brutal day for social media giant facebook, instagram and whats app. all knocked offline for about six hours today leaving billions of users locked out. the cause of the outage still not clear tonight but reports the systems inside facebook were down, some employees had difficulty communicating and troubleshooting the problem. newborn stock tanked taking a nose dive today sliding nearly...

Facebooks entire statement is i to testify before the senate congress committee tomorrow where she will tell senators they need to better regulate facebook. norah. >> odonnell: interesting new details, kris van cleave, thank you. tonight were learning what might have caused an offshore oil pipeline to rupture unleashing a environmental disaster along the southern california coast. more than # 125,000 gallons of crude oil leaked into the pacific. animals are dying and world famous beaches could b...

Her first mission, jetting off to zer gravity flig captioning sponsored by cbs >> odonnell: tonight, the stunning blackout for facebook, as the worlds largest social media network of 3 billion users is knocked offline. plus what you didnt hear from the facebook whistleblower last night on on "60 minutes." facebook had one to have the longest company outages in history. stock tumbled. exclusive new document as we know about the role facebook made in per fetch waiting misinformation ahead of janua...

>> reporter: tonight facebook is responding publicly for the first time to complaints filed with regular rarities saying any sense it has any sponszable for january 6th is absurd but the tens of thousands of pages of documents are raising real questions about what facebook did and didnt do. >> facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests like making more money. >> reporter: that belief prompted facebook whistleblower frances haugen to file at least eight separate complain...

>> reporter: facebook added a statement it has expressly disclosed to investors the risk remains of misinformation, hate speech and extremism occurring on its platforms. >> what happened between election day and january 6th on the platform? >> there were a lot of people who were angry, fearful. they spread the fears to more people and then, when they had to choose which content from the groups to put into peoples new feeds, they picked the content most likely to engage us which happened to be an...