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Times" technology correspondent, ryan mack, who wrote about the facebook documents today. thanks for joining us on this. we appreciate it. i got to say, this is astounding. they set up their own kind of dummy facebook profile and all their algorithms lead them these down these rabbit holes to conspiracy theories and urging this carol smith user to sign up for something like qanon. you specifically wrote about the efforts that facebook had in place to regulate things, leading up to the 2020 election. which, in fact, to a certain extent, they did quite well. it was after the 2020 election, it se...

Found suggested the overthrow of the government or voiced support for the violence. given that, how is it that facebook does not take at least a modicum of responsibility when it comes to january 6th? >> i think that's part of the trouble, right? you compare what someone like sheryl sandberg said in the days after january 6th or what mark zuckerberg testified in front of congress with in the months after, trying to kind of push responsibility to other social networks, to cable news networks, to president trump, and what you kind of miss here is this environment that's created with not only jus...

From july 2019, it's called carol's journey to qanon and researchers set up a dummy account to kind of see how facebook's algorithms recommended qanon content and took less than three days from that account being started to being recommended qanon groups and qanon pages in that whole process. >> so, obviously, we know that facebook doesn't take sole responsibility for the january 6th insurrection, nor should they, but that's also part of the whole congressional investigation into what took place on january 6th. not only with contributions from platforms like facebook but obviously from inside ...

Profits are up! on to next month. on to next month, linda! get your books done for you by trusted experts. intuit quickbooks live bookkeeping. all right, so, we have some bombshell new reporting on new internal documents from facebook about misinformation and efforts to radicalize its users. it is part of a whistle-blower's efforts to bring to light what the social media giant actually knows, and nbc news story reports on an effort by facebook as far back as 2019, by the way, to set up a dummy account with the name carol smith whose profile showed her as leaning conservative. though smith ha...

To aggregate into this fatal mistake, and there were so many steps along the way where kind of one in a million things happened the brandon lee and his situation. the gun, a piece of the -- some projectile gets stuck in the barrel, then someone loads it with a blank and then it sort of creates a bullet, so to speak. it's just a bizarre situation. it may be the exact same thing that happened here. the responsibility is spread. >> danny cevallos, thank you for joining us. still ahead, everybody, what facebook knew, what the social giant's own research reveals about the platform's propensity fo...