Page 3 - Doesnt Facebook News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

It follows them into their bedrooms. the last thing they see before they go to bed is someone being cruel or the first thing they see in the morning is someone being cruel to them. kids are learning their own friends, people who care about them are cruel to them. i would like to emphasize one of the documents on problematic use examined the rates of problematic use by age and that peaked with 14-year-olds, it's just like cigarettes. teenagers don't have good self-regulation. they say explicitly i feel bad when i use instagram and yet i can't stop. >> you can hear there why she is an absolute n...

Reports, never attended a decision point meeting with c level executives, and testified more than six times, in the subject matter of question. we don't agree with her characterization of the many issues she testified about. but so much of what she testified about is the truth, right, i mean, a lot of what she's saying about how these algorithms are designed, and what facebook and instagram is doing and what is happening on their platforms, we've documented, to our reporting, through reporting elsewhere, and through other experts who follow this sort of thing, so this is a very big issue for f...

Us live from capitol hill. so i mean, she just put to words what many people have been fearing for years about the algorithm of facebook, that it does much more harm than good, so where are we and what can lawmakers actually do? >> reporter: well, lawmakers can legislate to regulate and there's certainly a lot of indication from senators on both sides of the aisle who were at that hearing today that they would be willing to do that, that this seems like a bipartisan issue, and a lot of it is due to how compelling this whistleblower's testimony was. have a listen. >> facebook knows that it's am...

Have been a part of. i've frankly never seen such an effort to prepare for an election. >> why did you dissolve the civic integrity department which worked on misinformation before january 6th? >> we didn't dissolve that team. what we did was build a bigger team that that team became a part of, and in part that's because over the last few years with covid, with the election, with other matters that we had teams working on individually, we were learning about things like how to use informational labels on content, how to build informational centers, and we wanted to be able to leverage the thin...

Now, we need to do better for those who are having a bad experience, but that's exactly why we do this kind of research. we wouldn't ask these tough questions if we didn't care. we're asking because we care. >> on a bigger issue, what about democracy, does facebook take any responsibility for what happened on january 6th since it allowed the big election lie, propagated by donald trump to proliferate on the site. >> the responsibility for january 6th, i can't be more closure about this, than to say the responsibility for january 6th lies with those who broke the law, and those in politics and ...