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Warning. he says facebook is not just bad for our brains and kids' brains, he says it's a danger for our democracy. roger mcnamee was part of facebook's most crucial decisions including encouraging zuckerberg not to sell the company in 2007 and encouraging sheryl sandberg to join the company. he no longer advises facebook but still owns shares. mcnamee says facebook's rapid success led to overconfidence and unwillingness to face up to the risks the company presents. so he says it's time to break up the company and limit its influence. he writes, "they have taken add vanta advantage of our trus...

Trying to help connect everyone in the world because we want to offer a free service that everyone can afford. >> okay. >> that's the only way that we can reach billions of people. >> and in a post yesterday celebrating facebook's birthday, zuckerberg wrote, "as networks of people replace traditional hierarchies and reshape many institutions in our society, from government to business, to media, to communities and more, there is a tepndsy of some peope to lament this change, to overly emphasize the negative and in some cases to go so far as saying the shift to empowering people in the ways the...

Just not doing enough. the problem is the incentives of the business model are misaligned with the needs of the po people who use the product and misaligned with democracy. >> you write in -- >> they do -- >> here's the way to think about this is that if you're facebook today, your code, your algorithms, have more influence on people's lives than the law does. >> yep. >> right? >> they decide what you get to do way more often than the law. and what's happened is that through their success, which is they've created legitimate economic power, but they've gotten massive political power. they infl...

>> i think that's what we heard throughout the city here. speak of residents and people who are constituents. they are happy with where she is at in a leadership position. they are obviously wondering how this will progress with another fight. not only about the presidency, but how this border wall as she was going to get handled and we are coming up on another deadline for funding. it's an ongoing conversation, but this is her home turf. they stuck behind her when they were down and stick behind her now. >> in speaker pelosi's san francisco district. the state of the union, we look at the sta...