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Johnson has submitted data from the fda requesting authorization for a booster shot of its covid vaccine. we'll discuss what that could mean for the fight against the virus. >> we begin with what is happening on capitol hill. any moment, members of congress will get their first opportunity to question frances haugen, the facebook whistle-blower who went public on sunday during an interview with "60 minutes." haugen has called steps facebook took after the 2020 election a, quote, betrayal of democracy. haugen's testimony comes less than 24 hours after facebook faced another crisis, when its sit...

Whose testimonies may be the culmination of weeks of bad press. >> facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site and they'll click on less ads and make less money. it's subsidizing and paying for its profit with our safety. >> and doing it legally. if you thought the answer is as simple as pulling the plug on facebook, the world just found out how hard it could be. the platform went down for more than five hours. that's 3.5 billion users losing access from facebook. if you had any doubt about how

Manually go in and reset some servers to make it happen. so a terrible technical day, so i think it's more of the symbolism than the technical glitch that really has had its standing out for everybody today. >> and leann, is congress today any closer to both parties agreeing on how congress can best take steps to regular utility social media companies like facebook? or even if congress should be doing that? >> well, jose, there's bipartisan outrage at facebook and social media companies, and there has been for a couple of years. but there's no agreement on how to move forward and how to regula...

Opposed to facts? so, for example, back in february, facebook said it would remove posts that falsely claimed, quote, covid-19 is manmade or manufactured. facebook dropped that rule in may when the biden administration said, oh, we are going to look into whether covid was leaked from the wuhan lab. no, leaked doesn't mean the same thing as manmade. obviously. but it makes the point, right, that somebody in -- in -- in politics can determine fact from fiction or what's appropriate on a site and that could be political censorship. how do tech companies walk that line? >> so i think it's impossib...

Growth back, they wanted the acceleration of the platform back after the election, they returned to their original defaults, and the fact that they had to break the glass on january 6th and turn them back on, i think that's deeply problematic. >> kara, so, when we hear that, we're basically hearing facebook was, like, all right, yeah, yeah, rah, rah, okay, be quiet now. somebody's paying attention. and then the moment the election is over, they're right back to it. what do we do about that? >> they don't want to make money from hate. let me be clear. facebook didn't invent hate and that's the ...