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Because haugen knows the significant influence facebook has over its billions of users wo around the world. >> misinformation, angry content is enticing to people and -- >> very enticing. >> -- and keeps them on the platform. >> yes. faceb facebook realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, they will click on less ads, they will make less money. >> haugen is also expected to be grilled on facebook's role in the deadly insurrection. her team which was reportedly charged with helping to protect the democratic process, that was actually the -- the formal description. and reducing, ag...

Health say instagram make it worse, reads another. >> what's supertragic is facebook's own research says as these young women begin to consume this eating disorder content, they get more and more depr depressed it actually makes them use the app more. and so, they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more and more. facebook's own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for instagram, that it harms teenagers. it's that it is distinctly worse than other forms of social media. >> reporter: eternally starved. i have to be thin. skin and bone. all instagram pa...

And stephanie grisham, a trump insider, selling books by warning of a 2024 trump run that she is, quote, terrified about. but is her book tour all about her own image? let's go outfront. and good evening, i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, facebook's disaster. just hours before a whistle-blower is set to testify before congress against the tech giant about its quest for profit over public safety, facebook's site is coming back online. after it was done almost six hours today. and the other sites facebook owns, instagram and whatsapp, also, offline. it's one of the longest outages for faceb...

Integrity team through last year's election. that team charged with protect the democratic process and reducing the spread of viral misinformation and fake accounts. >> they told us we're dissolving civic integrity. like, they basically said, oh, good, we made it through the election. there wasn't riots. we can get rid of civic integrity now. fast forward a couple months, we got the insurrection. and when they got rid of civic integrity, it was the moment where i was like i don't trust that they are willing to actually invest what needs to be invested to keep facebook from being dangerous. >> ...

Participants in the study than their colleagues at work. 70 likes, facebook could predict the participant's opinion better than their friends. 150, it knows you better than family members. and after 300 likes -- that's it, 300 -- facebook knew the study's participants better, their interest, what they believed, better than their spouse. okay. now, that is power and look. when you have that kind of power, you are not going to give it up. the social-media company in a statement defends itself. saying, quote, to suggest we encourage bad content and do nothing is just not true. donie o'sullivan is...