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From the sec and civil lawsuits and perhaps for congress to get involved in some way as well. >> a.b., one of the most alarming moments in the testimony was this when frances talked about the correlation between disinformation and acts of violence like we saw on january 6th. listen to this. >> facebook has been emphasizing a false choice. they said the safeguards that were in place before the election implicated free speech. the choices that were happening on the platform were really about how reactive and twitchy was the platform. like how viral was the platform. and facebook changed those sa...

Everybody respond in sort of a universal way, we're all really disgusted and really discouraged by what she's revealed, it's going to be really hard to believe that in this polarized environment, republicans and democrats will come together on a solution and actually sign a thing into law to address this threat. >> i was going to say to that point, the problem daniel is that you have facebook becoming really a hot bed of right wing disinformation and people rely on that disinformation to mobilize their base around core issues that get a lot of traction. that's part of the algorithm that a.b. w...

Home, brian. all right. well outfront now, michael smerconish, host of cnn's smerconish. so, michael, today on capitol hill, you know, something that seemed to finally unite many democrats and republicans was their frustration and anger at facebook. senator after senator from both parties were placing blame on facebook saying it needs to be fixed. um, okay. but should the government be involved in fixing? >> if facebook doesn't fix itself, erin, i think the government will have no choice. i mean, what's obvious about this issue is that polarization threatens democracy. now, we see the proof ...

Tonight, facebook trying to save face. the social media giant hitting back at whistle-blower frances haugen after her compelling testimony under oath before congress today. for more than thee hours, haugen answered questions from senators about the massive trove of internal documents, thousands of pages that she has and that she's now put out there, that she's leaked and her claims that the company put profits before people. brian stelter was there, and he is outfront. >> the only way we can move forward and heal facebook is we, first, have to admit the truth. >> and the truth according to fra...

Assistant attorney for the southern district of new york, now msnbc analyst. and a.b. is back with us. nick, i'll start with you. this conversation around big tech, certainly facebook and its role in our lives, it has been around now for a couple of years, but is this time different? is this a watershed moment now that we have a whistleblower with these documents captivating the attention of lawmakers in a way that is based on facebook's internal communications? >> i think it absolutely is. and for this reason, in 2018 when the cambridge analytica scandal broke, it was mostly about privacy and...