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Economic crisis connected to the pandemic. >> congressman jeffries, i appreciate your time. i always do. i thank you. >> thank you. and next, the facebook whistle-blower testifies saying the company knows it's harming people. and the buck needs to stop with, she says, mark zuckerberg. so, what's gonna happen? plus, breaking news. gabby petito's family speaking out and pointing fingers at the family of brian laundrie. saying somebody needs to start talking. and calls for an investigation tonight into one of the architects of trump's attempted coup. why even republicans are calling foul on a...

Reactive and viral was the platform. facebook changed those safety defaults in the runup to the election because they knew they were dangerous. because they wanted that growth 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. >> agree. thank you very much for your bravery in coming forward. >> thank you. i've been arguing for some time that it is time for congress to act. i think the question is always what is the correct way to do it consistent with our first ame...

Mononop i'm not averse to looking at the monoolistic nature of facebook. i think there are a couple of things i think we can do. i have a piece of legislation called the filter bubble transparency act. what it would do is give users the options to engage with social media platforms without being manipulated by these secret formulas that dictate the content you see when you open up an app or log onto a website. we also i think need to hold big tech accountable by reforming section 230. one of the best opportunities to do that in a bipartisan way is the platform accountability act, which in addi...

Businesses make money. i mean, the essence of facebook's place in the world was essentially laid bear for everybody when it went offline. and to have that coupled with what is now going to be, as leann described there, extraordinarily explosive testimony about the role that facebook also has in our minds and in our democracy, it all leads up to a very dramatic day today, jose. >> and jacob, i'm just wondering, it's -- as far as we know, it was like a technical issue. not some kind of cyber attack. we don't really know much about what caused this, do we? >> there's no evidence at this hour that...

Exposed to more anorexia content. it is pulling families apart, and in places like ethiopia, it's literally fanning ethnic violence. >> facebook released a statement after her testimony, saying, quote, today, a senate subcommittee held a hearing with a former product manager of facebook who worked for the company for less that be two years, had no direct reports, never attended a decision-point meeting with c-level executives, and 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. desp...