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An impact. and so what does that mean to do that? are they a utility? are they a publisher? are they a media company? that needs to be determined. >> listen, i think you're right. i have my idea of what i think, but i don't know if that will work. but we should have the discussion and see if there's something that will work. kara, i appreciate you joining us. thank you. have a good evening. >> no problem, don. thanks. now to democrats scrambling to make a deal to pass the president's domestic agenda. joining me now, democratic congressman colin allred of texas. how are you doing? >> i'm doin...

Senators called out his absence and quipped that he was sailing, referring to his recent uploads to facebook and instagram. >> rather than taking responsibility and showing leadership, mr. zuckerberg is going sailing. >> reporter: lots of comments about the credibility of this whistleblower. people blown away by how knowledgeable she is and how much she is willing to share. and remember, don, the documents she has provided, they show lots of employees inside facebook have the same fears that she does. this story is not over. not by a long shot. don? >> brian stelter, thank you very much. i app...

Voting shares for facebook. there are no similarly powerful companies that are as unilaterally controlled. in the end, the buck stops with mark. there's no one currently holding mark accountable but himself. >> straight up, kara, is she right? is mark zuckerberg the problem? >> oh, yeah. well, he can't be fired. i don't know, don. you and i can be fired, right? >> yeah. >> it does have an effect on us. so if you're unfireable and unaccountable and you run the biggest communications platform in the history of the world, you know, that's a lot on your shoulders. even if you're really good at you...

Because they were costing the company money, because it was reducing profits? >> facebook changed those safety defaults in the run-up to the election because they knew they were dangerous and because they wanted that growth back, they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election, they returned to their original defaults. the fact that they had to break the glass on january 6th and turn them back on, i think that's deeply problematic. >> reporter: another big focus of the hearing, how facebook and its other social media apps, including instagram, negatively impact kids. >> ki...

Facebook, as you saw from the response by mark zuckerberg, is saying this is not the company we know, which is in essence saying, we don't know what she's talking about. i think some of the tweets from some of the p.r. people and statements trying to minimize her, trying to make it seem like she's a nobody, that she's not in the big meetings, i think aggression is what they're using here. so it's up to congress now to act. and frankly, they've done nothing, and so it's at their foot. they have to do something right now. >> to what you said, this is how mark zuckerberg and others responding ton...