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People. >> martha: so is this a moment? is this a turning point in the dominance of big tech in our lives? many comparisons being made to this moment in 1994 which was the beginning of a major change a clamp down on big tobacco. watch this. >> i think each of you believe nicotine is not addictive but would like to have this for the record. >> i don't believe that nicotine and our products are addictive. >> i believe nicotine is not addictive. >> i believe that nicotine is not addictive. >> i believe that nicotine is not addictive. >> martha: something, right? now the question is, does congress...

Kids telling parents, please don't smoke anymore, mom and dad. you had the surgeon general talking about the dangers of smoking. where is the surgeon general? here's a role for goal in here somewhere, isn't there? >> exactly right. you put your finger on it. look, i've been one of the biggest critics of big tech. i've argued for these giant companies to be broken up so there's more competition and they don't have dominance over political discourse. or what is allowed to be said and so on. i'm no fan of them. i think that something a little bit unseemly and unintelligent against the pile-on, ju...

That he saw laundry near the appalachian trial, a weird guy in a white pickup asking how to get to california. we also learned from the sister that brian laundrie fly back from the big road trip for four or five days to close out a storage looker to meet with gabby in the white van. >> sandra: thanks. i'm sandra smith in new york. >> martha: good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum in new york, this is "the story." this is getting a lot of attention and for good reason. facebook getting its cage rattled on capitol hill by this whistle-blower. >> i'm here today because i believe facebook stokes div...

Mentioned is that facebook had a safety testifying in the past. senators brought it up too. she first explained that children are an issue on facebook because they're not allowed on the platform to which the whistle-blower said we removed 600,000 accounts that we knew about. let's talk about what we didn't know about. she mentioned problematic behavior. she said with the rest of us, probably what refer to as addiction. 3 to 5% of the young children of these minors were self-identifying, that they had lost their control to extricate themselves from the platform and also had identified material ...

They don't charge their users but charge their advertisers. in this case, it included cambridge analytica. we have to put limits on these advertisers, which was something that wasn't done. these advertisers were gobbling up this private data, totally unknown to user. i think one thing that would be an easy opt out, that some tickets say i share this information. if you want to share it with a story, or recommendation on a particular product, i don't want it shared for political purposes or things of that sort. that's where we are going to be headed in the hearing. >> harris: that's a little bi...