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Talk about the importance of getting younger users like tweens onto instagram because they know that children bring their parents online and things like that. they understand the value of younger users for the long-term success of facebook. >> facebook reported advertising revenue to be $51 per user last quarter in the u.s. and canada. when i asked ms. davis how much of that came from instagram users under 18, she wouldn't say. do you think teens are profitable for their company? >> i would assume so based on advertising for things like television. you get substantially higher advertising rate...

Everyone's life. when you look at the trust argument and lawmakers trying to describe the role that facebook plays and all of that was suddenly thrown into sharp leap by five hours with outage. you had every one of its platforms, instagram and facebook and whatsapp down. the extraordinary roles it plays in our lives and the way small businesses are will to do business in the way that people could not communicate with their friends and relatives. the extraordinary power and influence. >> dylan, is this outage going to force any change from the company or users? it's a legal monopoly. >> well, c...

It is documented proof that facebook knows its products can be addictive and toxic to children, and it's not just that they made money. again, it's that they valued their profit more than the pain that they caused to children and their families. the damage to self-interest and self-worth inflicted by facebook today will haunt a generation. feelings of inadequacy and insecurity, rejection, and self-hatred will impact this generation for years to come. >> clicking on like on facebook's harmful practices is where we start this hour. joining us now, kara swisher, host of "the pivot" podcast and a ...

Its executives and accountability and as they've been increasingly scrutinized, they've gone from the, you know, sort of, i don't want to -- i'll apologize for this to being defensive about their platform instead of creating ways in which to have a conversation about how the act to be cleaned up. >> clint, yesterday, i don't know if you recognized this, i did, there was five hours of relative peace. facebook and instagram were down. people were talking to each other. kids were dancing in the streets in the middle of covid. we had a shutdown on facebook. but i think for a lot of people, it was ...

Jake's point, how much it embedded infrastructure and around so many people around the globe. they're going to take every step to make sure something like this does not happen again. i don't think they saw it anything other than a technical issue that provided a massive headache for them and tens of millions of dollars lost in reserve new. >> i want to get from the testimony, i want to hear from the whistleblower. the biggest problem regulating facebook, they can't do it because they don't have any data. this inability to see into the actual systems of facebook and confirm facebook's systems w...