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Misinformation, violence and gore. again, just by following facebook's recommendations. in response to these test, cases facebook has pointed to changes it said it made to make the platform safer. it also said it has made progress and working to stop abuse, in countries where they're in risk of conflict in violence. it's clear that the problems that tech giants like facebook are facing in creating, our complex, but are also really not getting better overtime, if you're looking to these companies to show bravery, and backbone, so far the evidence that they are capable of, that or inclines in th...

It's worth, facebook has this interesting project going called project treble and it's named for the 17th century dutch inventer who invented the first navigable submarine. so you can get the metaphor. how do they get to qanon? what is this third degree of separation that really pours people into these rabbit holes and can they, these researchers, can they somehow cover up or turn down the algorithm on those initial rabbit holes and maybe fix it that way? it's a really interesting research project, but as we know about facebook's research projects, they don't translate into any policy. >> that...

Might be q curious. i'm trying to get an idea of what level is the work being done by people's nested preferences external to facebook. >> yeah. that's a very well worded question. you know, earlier this year, i think about it a lot. facebook's vp of global comes, he made a block post where he said it takes two to tango. it's like facebook is pulling these people across the dance floor and when they finally get them on the floor, hey, dancing is pretty fun and you relent and join these groups. it's hard to say chicken or egg, but even the people who didn't get it in first and didn't want to be...

She wanted on facebook's platform, as long as it was part of a paid political ad for her campaign. ahead of the 2020 presidential campaign, facebook announced that any ad paid for by a political campaign would be exempt from fact checking protocols. that is exactly what you think, politicians were formally allowed on facebook to spread any lie they wanted about their opponents with total impunity. that is, example, how donald trump was able to run facebook ads claiming joe biden was doing corruption. with her deliberately false ads, senator liberal -- elizabeth warren set out to test how dange...

Take us through the context of this. what is your reporting based on and what were the -- do in creating these profiles. >> yeah, hey, chris. so this was one of tens of thousands of documents that we have been poring over looking at the documents that whistleblower frances haugen has handed over to the sec and congress. a lot of these documents were also the basis of those blockbuster "wall street journal" reports we saw. so we've been poring over these documents and this is one of many example of internal research we saw that genius researchers, really, inside facebook. we're talking ph.d.s w...