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The head of the naacp is now demanding a meeting with ceo mark zuckerberg. he wants the company to take steps to mitigate the rise of white supremacist content influencing political discourse and potentially influencing the rise in voter suppression laws in minority areas. naacp president and ceo johnson joins us now, along with founding president of voto latino. an msnbc contributor. good to have you both with us this morning. >> derek, let me ask you, how much of a threat is facebook right now to black americans with the rise of white supremacy, getting, my gosh, a lot of its ability to orga...

Fire. >> the company's leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram a saver, but don't make the changes because they put their astronomical profits before people. >> reporter: haugen insists congress must act against the company, holding the ceo to account. >> the buck stops with mark. >> reporter: haugen left facebook in may, armed with tens of thousands of internal documents, some showing the company knows its instagram app can contribute to eating disorders in teen girls. a characterization facebook has disputed. >> it's just like cigarettes. teenagers don't have good regulation. the...

The post that he made last night on his facebook page. the company remains pretty defiant and defensive. he dug in his heels. they say the company is being unfairly criticized, and that the research that frances haugen, the tens of thousands of pages, is taken out of context. and that everybody is getting it wrong. it's almost like two parallel worlds that are being -- views of the world that exist right now, that within facebook and that of the rest of the world. however, what frances haugen did was she gave an unvarnished insider's account. that was what was new yesterday in her testimony. s...

Elected officials, there are people screaming at the audience, that they don't want to get a vaccine to save their lives, to save the lives of their family members, to save the -- also, to not be selfish. not to just be selfish and driven by whether it is a personality cult or whether it is driven by a conspiracy theory. >> thank you, facebook, once again. it is a common thread throughout this show and throughout the -- >> i guarantee you, mika, majority of the people screaming were getting their disinformation about the vaccine from facebook. we hear it every day. every time we hear disinform...

Third on the other side that are just going to feet in cement, always expect the worst about the other side. it's the people in the middle that you have to sway. with facebook, with an international platform that can spread lies the way it spreads lies, suddenly the conspiracy theories that were once hid in the darkest corners of the internet, darkest corners of bookstores where you could buy these paperback books saying lyndon johnson was a murderer, whatever, suddenly, that's coming into people's bedrooms and living rooms and offices. >> it's being positioned as news. >> every aspect of ever...