to have that platform for free, that you have to also, you know, possibly be exposed to misinformation and hate and everything else that we know is on facebook and instagram. and she's making the point pretty clearly that that doesn't have to be the case, that facebook is making choices here, and the choice she says is that they're choosing profit over safety. >> donie, facebook and other sites it owns, instagram and whatsapp were all offline for almost six hours today t. was really quiet. i kind of enjoyed it. for like six hours today. it was a mess that impacted billions of users worldwide. is this just a massive coincidence that this happened hours after this bombshell whistle-blower's interviewer? >> reporter: that certainly seems to be what facebook is suggesting. i want to show you a statement they've released in the past few minutes. i'll read it slowly. it is a lot of technical jargon. they're saying their engineering