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Said on 60 minutes. as these young women consume eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed, it actually makes them use the app more so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more. facebook's own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, it harms teenagers. it's distinctly worse than other social media. do you deny that that research exists? >> there are -- there's research we have put out. in fact, we put out more than 400 research papers that we have participated in or released ourselves in the past year alone, and there i...

Top of the hour, i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell. the message from whistleblower frances haugen is that facebook should declare moral bankruptcy and seek help from congress. she testified in front of a senate committee today sf. >> she's the former employee of accusing the social media giant of knowing how harmful their algorithm is for children and our entire democracy. >> i believe facebook's products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. the company's leadership knows how to make facebook an instagram saver and won't make the necessary changes because they ha...

And that story we mentioned at the very end, this disinformation that's kind of massacre aiding in other texts. explain what's going on there. >> on facebook if you were to create a group that said the vaccine is filled with poison, you shouldn't take it that would get taken down very quickly. facebook does not allow that. so what are anti-vaxers doing to remain on the platform inthey're changing the names of their groups to dance party or dinner party or swim party or things like that. and once you're in the group they replace the word vaccine with dance or beer or something. moderna gets cha...

Commissioner roger goodal, told teams this week if they had an outbreak among their players they would forfeit a game, and no player on either team would get paid for that week. could this be a model future companies might follow, or do we just need better information overall? some anti-vaccination groups on facebook are using coded language to spread this information without getting flagged by moderators. they substitute words like "dancing" for vaccination. so much to discuss this hour with our saturday night panel. joining us tonight ben collins. he covers disinformation and extremism onlin...

In-group it should be able to trace that's the same account with a new name, right? >> yeah, hypothetically, right? sometimes they build up followers, anti-vaccine followers on facebook and ips tugram are not big famous people to regular parts of the planet, but they are big to people big in the national health community or already anti-vaccine to begin with, which so really facebook's next step is to look at this on the after level as they'd call it in terrorism, to look at it on the level of the people who keep pushing this stuff and not go hunting for just ""p" words on their own platform. ...