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Remedies might congress take in the wake of these hearings? one thing that had been considered, which seems like a dramatic step, is the congressman asking to have access to the algorithm facebook uses when they promote things in feeds. it is basically their secret sauce, like their secret ingredient. i'd have to think they'd fight tooth and nail before letting that go. walk us through, what could happen here? >> yeah. there's a new discussion in washington, very much prompted by frances haugen, the whistleblower's testimony, where the focus has shifted from things like speech regulation and p...

Instagram safer but won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. >> reporter: whistle-blower frances haugen insisting congress must act against a company she says is misleading the public, promoting hateful and harmful content, holding its ceo to account >> in the end the buck stops with mark. >> reporter: haugen left facebook in may, armed with tens of thousands of internal documents including some she says showing the company knows its instagram app can contribute to eating disorders in teen girls. a characterization facebook has disputed. ...

Somebody said. ahead of the football coaches are the family doctor they've known for a generation. >> joe, you're making this really important point, and i think this is really important for us to wrap our minds around. it's not that folks are just mindlessly following politicians. this is ecosystem. facebook is at the heart of it. the other news network is at the heart of it. it is an ecosystem producing a way of seeing the world that, in some ways is not -- not some ways, it is undermining our democracy. we have to get at this and hit it every single day. this ecosystem. it's nested. it's co...

Immigrants. why? it was because of the disinformation that's being spread on facebook and what's app. the haitian migration that's coming in and out through haiti but coming from brazil and because of chile is a coordinated effort from foreign governments, encouraging us to have an issue at the border. we have to recognize that the root causes of this right now facebook doesn't have repercussion. we have to be weary of the information folks are consuming. there has to be some sort of seal of approval, that what you're reading is real and what you're not is fabricated. >> hey, maria, jonathan l...