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That internally it's impossible. >> i think it's very difficult and when you have taepeams of t of thousands of peeople that ar the content moderators, and by the way, most are english speaking, they're in the u.s. and the u.k., where most of the users of facebook and other social media are outside of the u.s. and the u.k. in different languages, you know, hundreds of different languages, different cultural contexts, it's a very difficult problem, and so i think if you're able to get rid of the algorithms, you'll resolve a lot of these issues. >> the basic premise of frances haugen's testimony...

>> so the number that facebook likes to tell congress, tens of thousands of people we have working on this. so many of the people they have working on their most doctor their biggest issue, content moderators. they're not actual facebook employees. they're contractors. they are paid nowhere near as well as a facebook employee. if they wanted to bring it up to that standard, why not spend that additional money, bring more people in-house, train them up to their own standard. facebook would say this is a scale issue. we cannot hire tens of thousands of people at once. but this issue has been on ...

Financially motivated opportunity bunch, get the better of the platforms again. because they seem to bob and weave pretty quickly and effectively and the platforms seem to take a long time to either figure it out or more likely fix it. >> yeah, these people are really, really good at social media. they're very good at internetting. because they've been doing it a long time. so when facebook says or youtube says, we're no longer going to allow anti-vaccination misinformation, all the anti-vaxers on facebook say, now we'll spell vaccine with a 3 instead of an "e" at the end or put the text backw...

Facebook's got to be smarter than to be able to not catch that we've just changed our name. we're an anti-vaxx group disguising ourself. >> we just reported my colleague ben collins and i reported on these groups that were changing their name to swim club or dinner party or dance party or changing the e's in vaccines to 3's. it's very common. it's of the internet. people have been doing it as long as the internet's existed so the fact that -- and also, i know for a fact that people have been reporting these groups for over a month, and facebook did nothing until nbc news reached out and sudden...

Leo Varadkar told an Oireachtas committee he felt it was odd and suspicious that people would not be able to see an agreement they had signed.