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>> in terms of if you are asking if there is any link between the reporting that's come out recently about them and this or the whistle-blower, i -- i think coincidence, very definitely. this is facebook basically managed to disconnect itself from the internet at large. um, just kind of the map of the internet. they are kind of -- severed those ties briefly. they are back up now and -- or at least in the process of restoring across a whole bunch of services and this is just hugely damaging to the company. i think what it does show is just the -- how much responsibility facebook has taken on to...

Things? and it sounds like they are not even able to know or to figure tou out how to get themselves back connected to the internet. it's pretty incredible they are out for six hours and they don't seem to know what happened. that should be pretty terrifying to people. >> there's been a lot of concerns and just to tie this back into some of the kind of concerns about content and regulation of the platform. about complexity at facebook and about the company's ability to manage the extremely convoluted and complex machine it's built. and i think, obviously, i'm not going to connect infrastructur...

Government regulators. and it's her against a trillion-dollar company. so to say that, you know, she is intimidated. perhaps, a little bit by a trillion-dollar company is not an understatement. >> all right. well, andrew, i appreciate your time. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> obviously, tomorrow, crucial day to hear ms. haugen's testimony. i want to go now to david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama. david, because you tweeted these algorithms and alg rigm, it's a method, it's a process that -- that is used. you say they're as dangerous to our democracy as any terrorist. te...

Tools in which they can take to effect positive change. to mitigate against hate, against viral misinformation because one thing i just want to point out is that facebook is a vehicle by which misinformation spreads globally. it has impacted children here in the united states, and it has impacted even individuals as far as myanmar where there was a genocide that was influenced by facebook. >> so, one specific facebook -- um -- claim -- one claim they take issue with is the one about the instagram impact on teen girls. you refer to children and i know you just heard, obviously, the report that ...

Accounts concerning eating disorders and personal intrigue. >> instagram said eternally starved i have to be thin skin and bone, the account it had promoted through its algorithm broke the company's rules encouraging eating disorders but they only removed the accounts after being contacted by cnn. >> this experience shows very graphically how these claims to protect children or take down accounts that may be dangerous to them are absolute hogwash. in fact, it was not taken down until cnn brought it to their attention. >> reporter: a spokesperson for instagram's parent company, facebook, said i...