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Angry content. he is soaying hougan's comments don't make sense, but she came with receipts. >> they're minimizing the claims. they're trying to make them too broad. at one point i thought one of the comments was, we didn't start the civil war, or something like that. no one thinks facebook sis the cause of hatred between human beings. that's humans. the politicians, you could blame donald trump, fox news, anyone whatever side you're on. but facebook manipulates all these families. there has never been such a communications platform in history, and the fact of the matter is they manage it prop...

47 past the hour. right now on capitol hill, facebook whistle-blower frances haugen is testifying before a senate subcommittee. back with me is nbc news correspondent jacob ward. what are some of the key things we're hearing so far? >> reporter: it's been extraordinary testimony and we're only a few minutes into it, jose. at this hour, miss haugen is describing to senators what she says is basically a fight inside the company between safety efforts that the people within the company have tried to take and the units involved in growth. let's have a listen to a little bit of what she said so far...

Created equally. the way she explains things and the problems she identified resonate with the layperson. you don't have to be a computer programmer to understand what she's talking about. then she has documents that she copied that she has to corroborate what she says. it's not every day that you get a whistleblower who's got the goods so to speak to back up what they're saying and i think that will have a really significant impact. particularly i would say on the sec, which she's also cooperating with which can bring enforcement actions against facebook for withholding information to the reg...

Haugen, laid out how facebook actually let misinformation run rampant on its platforms at the expense of public safety and how it actually knew of the harm its platforms were doing to teens. >> i'm here because i believe facebook's products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. no one truly understands destructive choices made by facebook except facebook. we can afford nothing less than full transparency. as long as facebook is operating in the shadows, hiding research from public scrutiny, it is unaccountable. until we have transparency and our ability the confirm ourselves ...

And the opioid crisis. they were aware of the negative consequences throughout society of their products yet they hid that and they continued to sell them. this is very similar. it's just on multiple different levels. because you have instagram, where they know that it's demoralizing for girls in particular. and then you also have facebook where we're well aware of all the political disinformation that has been out there. it's a very difficult problem to tackle. but if facebook is aware that there is disinformation and misinformation on its site, that there are individuals around the world try...