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Wealthy. but now that they have made their billions, more are admitting that the company they created is destroying society. literally those are the words they used. former facebook president admitted the website was designed to be addictive and like cigarettes or prescription drugs, then bragged his wealth would let him live to 160. last august, an early investor called facebook a threat to democracy. now formerth vice president of e site says "facebook is ripping apart the social fabric of how society works." the author of "disconnected," joins us tonight. tom, the directness and some of the...

One decision that is going to be harder for us to push back against the others. >> being the referee of free speech is complicated, just ask twitter co-founder, mr. williams. >> you get editorial guidelines and then you get in an area where most tech companies are like that's not something that fits in our model or that we would be good at. >> increasingly, whether or not you like it you have to make decisions that are editorial, wouldn't you say? >> there are judgments being made all the way down the line. what the system values and what the feedback loops are. >> while tech companies have th...

Platforms like facebook isn't just about producing propaganda that could essentially impact an election. ed williams, who created both twitter and medium tells me at the heart of the issue it's about money and how publishers and tech companies are benefiting from low quality information. take a listen. >> i think the fact that tech companies have to accept is that there are judgments being made all the way down the line. there's judgments about how the algorithm works, what the system values, what the feedback loops are, and in my opinion, the most nefarious feedback loop that ann on the inter...

I knew -- i know something about using modern technology so that people don't slip through the cracks and fall through the cracks. this is what i see happening in the v.a. we, by the way, in my state made full employment a strategic goal of my administration for the last year and a half. not because we were doing well but because we were losing too many of our veterans when they came home and they were falling through the cracks. what i see has happened in our veterans administration is this -- there is a sort of double squeeze that's gong on right now with aging veterans who are using the va ...

Whole lot of veterans coming home from iraq and afghanistan, from a long tour of duty, with really critical needs. but the v.a. has not updated the sort of feedback loops, the linkages by way of technology so you don't have a separate database over in the department of defense and a brand-new database in the v.a. without the openness and transparency to actually tell the v.a. administrators and managers that hey, we have a growing back dog, especially for veterans who need help because they have a cancer diagnosis. we don't have enough doctors that can actually fill this need, flfr we need to ...