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To -- >> jennifer, a lot of people made the analogy to big tobacco purposely misleading the public about the dangers of smoking. and when that was revealed. do you think this is as bad as that? >> it's very different. over time, you know, it may take several years for cancer to manifest. but what we're seeing on instagram is an imminent threat to teenagers. i am seeing self-harm. and that sounds so abstract when the senators are talking about it. but what does that look like? i'm talking about starvation. that is how bad the anorexia photos are up there. i'm talking about teenagers cutting the...

That support is critical, because what president trump has done, just like president putin, is he's got rid of the party. there isn't much of a republican party except for a personal cult around trump himself, and everyone has to appeal to him to actually still be in the political mix. that's exactly the same with putin in russia. and trump is appealing directly to people themselves. without the party, without any of the institutions, it's just exactly the same kind of play we see in russia. >> you also wrote something fascinating. you write in the book, and it's worrying, russia is america's ...

Recipes to anorexia-promoting content over a very short period of time. >> today's hearing focused heavily on facebook and instagram's impact on kids. it also dealt with facebook's real in amplifying election lies, political violence, and everything else surrounding the 2020 election and attack on the capitol. now, before we play you some of that testimony, though, here's what facebook's vice president for content policy said on cnn earlier today. >> responsibility for january 6th lies with those who broke the law and those in politics and elsewhere who incited them. and the work that we did, ...

Right? i -- i know that the more time i spend on this, the worse i feel. but like, i just can't -- like, that they want the next click. they want the next like. >> and in general, so do instagram and facebook because that increases engagement which, in turn, helps advertising revenue. that much is a simple fact about the way that social networks operate. the fundamental question is does facebook build their algorithm knowing it harms certain users? frances haugen says the answer's very simply yes. >> is facebook ever offered features that it knew had a negative effect on children's and teens' ...

>> he lies in such an earnest way, doesn't he? steely eyed lies. pence's comments are just the late nest a campaign by republicans who seem to be moving the party further and further from reality. joining us now to talk about it, cnn senior political analyst, david gergen. cnn's amanda carpenter. david, mick pence is sitting there with his face, blaming the media, calling the riots one day in january, while protestors chanted to hang him. it was interesting when -- when -- when sean hannity actually asked him act his ongoing -- what his relationship is like now with the former president. he go...