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How seriously should we take her warning? >> incredibly seriously. because, look, i think if you look at the way our collective politics have gone insane over the last several years. there are a lot of macrofactors but one of the clear drivers that has made your -- your sort of random aunts and uncles, all the sudden, come to the it can table armed with conspiracy theories and alternative facts is their facebook feed. and i think every case can be made that facebook has hit sort of a big-tobacco...

Documents to paint a false picture of the company. >> the good-faith criticism is coming from within his company. and these files are not simply comments from former employees. its internal research. internal data. all leading to a very clear conclusion that its own algorithms and the economic incentives created by those alg i thi algorithms is elevating the most negative content and comments in peoples feeds. that is a huge problem not just for facebook and its earnings but for society. and tha...