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If you want to see posts in chronological or reverse chronological order, you can. but since we're talking about the algorithm, and potential for polarization, we publish the content we demote, meaning reduce the distribution of. that includes click bait, engagement bait bauds we want people to have a good experience on the service. i just want to say, i understand the temptation to blame polarization on this industry, but if you look, the research is very clear that polarization in this country has been going up for decades before social media even existed. and if you look at other western de...

January 6? what is the allegation in relationship to facebook's role in the way communication or organization was taking place around that insurrection? >> absolutely. this is a platform that has been used by individuals who are spreading misinformation and disinformation. we have foreign governments use it to stoke hatred and violence. at the end of the day, it's about facebook's underlying algorithms and how the system was set up. one of our disclosures establishes that facebook actually prioritized the spread of things that are hateful because it got more clicks. it's click bait. that's wha...

Per se, we wouldn't draw a line under any sort of audience anywhere, really. we are a newspaper. we are here to serve quite a clearly defined demographic and so i guess in some regards that may be true, yeah. 0k. you do also have a deliberately tabloid feel. i was very tempted in the office earlier to open the story "watch a naked man stroll down london street before his semi—clothed pal knocked a cyclist off bike." fantastic. but that's click bait, isn't it? is that how you make money? no, not at all. to touch on the tabloid nature of the newspaper, i agree, i think that tabloid has become ...

Facebook's leadership and employees. what's the challenge that instagram posed for young women in this country, the glamorous life that's often celebrated on instagram? >> it's rough. i mean, we all feel that way. it's a fomo app. it's like what am i not doing right? you don't need data to tell you that instagram is making your life miserable. you're on instagram. you get it. as an adult you can sort of, all right, i'm bigger than this. but as a young adolescent, you're not. facebook knows that. facebook's goal is to make the user outraged. it runs on outrage like so much of the internet runs ...

We, in fact, gave them a list of people who we said would be lying around these kinds of significant events, and said, you know, watch out for them and don't allow them to go viral, and lo and behold, it was many of those people who were the obvious ones spreading it. so, you know, code isn't something that just happens. we write the code and the algorithms that make this happen. so, it's entirely within their power to take much greater action. >> real quick, i only have about minute left, i want to play a clip from facebook ceo mark zuckerberg. >> do you still contain main the more likely con...