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Divisive political speech, and misinformation on facebook and the family of apps, are affecting societies around the world. >> when we live in an information environment that is full of angry hateful polarizing content, it erodes our civic trust, our faith in each other and inroads our ability to want to care for each other. the version of facebook that is listed today is tearing our societies apart and causing violence around the world. >> in addition she announced that the algorithm deliberately chooses divisive content to show you. because anger inspires more engagement. the document she we...

Health issues, through social media. listen to what the whistleblower had to say -- >> one study says 13.5% of teen girls say instagram makes thoughts of suicide worse. 17% of teen girls say instagram makes eating disorders worse. >> and what's super tragic is facebook's own research says as these young women begin to consume this eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed, it makes them use the app more. and so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebook's own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, tha...

Tragic is facebook's own research says as these young women begin to consume this eating disorder content they get more and more depressed and it make them use the app more. so they end up in the foreheadback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebook's own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, that it harms teenagers. it's that it is distinctly worse than other forms of social media. >> every other regulatory body -- there were i think half a dozen cases of this side effect with the vaccine, and there were months and months of further examinat...

Speaking out publicly, accusing them of putting profit over public good. a former project manager says the social media giant knows its platforms are used to spread hate, violence, and misinformation. and she says instagram, which facebook bought in 2012, makes eating disorders and thoughts of suicide worse in teenage girls. it's hiding all of this evidence in order to protect its profits. here's more from "60 minutes" and its report. >> reporter: evidence of harm, she says, extends to facebook's instagram app. one of the facebook internal studies that you found talks about how instagram harms...

Capitol. they appeared on "60 minutes" minutes ago ahead of her appearance in a senate hearing on tuesday. she said thousands of pages of internal company research she turned over to the feds prove that facebook is falsely claiming it's effective in efforts to stop hate and misinformation. and that teenage girl are also victims, casualties of the company's corporate greed. >> evidence of harm she says extends to facebook's instagram app. >> one of the facebook internal studies that you found talks about how instagram harms teenage girls. >> oh, yeah. >> one study says 13.5% of teen girls say i...