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Misinformation or misinformation on facebook in the run-up to the 2020 election coied thousands of pages of internal documents before leaving facebook earlier this year. those form the basis of the complaints she filed last month with the securities and exchange commission claiming the tech giant hides what its own research says but the platform amplifies hate, misinformation and political unrest. >> to quote from another one of the documents you brought out, we have evidence from a variety of sources that hate speech, divisive political speech and misinformation on facebook and the family of ...

Divisive political speech, and misinformation on facebook and the family of apps, are affecting societies around the world. >> when we live in an information environment that is full of angry hateful polarizing content, it erodes our civic trust, our faith in each other and inroads our ability to want to care for each other. the version of facebook that is listed today is tearing our societies apart and causing violence around the world. >> in addition she announced that the algorithm deliberately chooses divisive content to show you. because anger inspires more engagement. the document she we...

Global outage preventing users from accessing three of the platforms. facebook, instagram, and whatsapp. it's preparing for potentially damning testimony. by a whistleblower. she left the company in may and took tens of thousands of documents. she says the documents proves facebook cares more about the bottom line than society's well being. >> facebook has shown it chooses profit over safety. it is subsidizing, paying for the profits with our safety. >> se she also says facebook has profited off polarization at the expense of democracy at large. >> when we live in an information environment th...

Facebook will be facing tough new scrutiny when a whistle-blower testifies on testify before a senate subcommittee. it comes after the whistle-blower, who was revealed tonight to be francis wagen, leaked documented to "the wall street journal." it shows they knew the platforms were, quote, riddled with flaws that caused harm, often in ways only the company fully understands. the whistle-blower spoke to cbs news in an interview that ran earlier tonight on "60 minutes." >> when we live in an information environment that is full of angry, hateful, polarizing content, it erodes our civic trust, it...

Intelligence is giving us. we have said havfrom the very beginning of this we're going to try to do this in a safe and orderly way. that means making sure nobody gets hurt to the maximum extent possible. so what you're seeing out of our state department colleagues, i think, is a prudent notification to make sure that whatever movement there is from the gates from outside the airport is done as safely as possible, and that people have the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves going forward. i do understand the question and the interest, but i hope you understand we're ...