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Violence to human trafficking to the toxic effect on the self-esteem of teens and in the wake of that global outage yesterday, haugen made this incredible statement pointing out how crucial facebook has become to all of our lives. take a listen. >> for more than five hours, facebook wasn't used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies and make young girls and women feel bad about their bodies. it also means that millions of small businesses weren't able to reach potential customers. and countless photos of new babies weren't joyously celebrated by family and friends around the world. >> so f...

Consumers are obsessed with being on facebook, hey, facebook can tell them we have your attention of five or six hours a day. it's all going to come back. >> is this an embarrassment for congress? >> no matter how representable behavior, we'll find out is all illegal. >> congress has had a monstrous, it's once upon a time they looked at these giant american based technical companies as an important allies and important signs of american innovation and know companies innovated so fast. >> that congress lost the handle of how to do them. you will see members with just the bare -

Testified more than six times to not working on the subject matter in question. we don't agree with her characterization of the many issues she testified about. among the most damming statements she made about facebook, she compared the company to big tobacco and pharmaceutical companies that make opioids. the only solution she says is for the government to get involved. >> when we realize big tobacco was hiding the harms it caused, the government took action. when we figured out cars were safer with seat belts, the government took action and when our government learned opioids were taking liv...

That. >> eating disorders have the highest mortality rates in women. i'm concerned the algorithms have outrageous content promoting anorexia and the like. do you think their algorithms push some of this content to young girls? >> facebook knows the way they pick the content in instagram amplifies preferences. they have done something called a proactive incident response where they take things they've heard, for example, like can you be led by the algorithms to anorexia content and they have literally recreated that experience themselves and confirmed, yes, this happens to people. >> do you thi...

In just a couple committee sessions. i think that's two parts to it. one, the biggest offenders are also on capitol hill but the problem goes well beyond capitol hill and all the way around the world as well. >> once we start adding more and more a.i. to things like social media, we are five steps away from sky net. kara, i want to make sure we get to this. facebook also owns instagram and there's been a lot of discussion about how instagram has affected young people, affected self-esteem. i want to point out from a demographic standpoint, my colleagues from oregon state university, they're no...