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Harm. we built an unprecedented third party fact checking. the system isn't perfect but the best approach to address misinformation in line with the country's value. >> cnn chief media correspondent brian stelter joins me and he's host of "reliable sources." brian, what else did she have to say? >> on the january 6th front, she talked about the riot and how it was organized partly on facebook. she also cited conflicts elsewhere in the world. she said the version of facebook today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world. mi myanmar is an example. >> one of th...

Take down hate speech and take down misinformation. that's the company's claim but time and time again they don't live up to those expectations and promises. i spoke with nick earlier as you mentioned, one of the top executives of facebook trying to issue a prebuttal to "60 minutes" saying facebook is responsible for the riot is bogus. here is what he said. >> the assertion is january 6th can be explained because of social media. i think that's ludicrous. the responsibility for the violence of january 6th and insurrection on that day lies squarely with the people who inflicted the violence and...

Capitol. they appeared on "60 minutes" minutes ago ahead of her appearance in a senate hearing on tuesday. she said thousands of pages of internal company research she turned over to the feds prove that facebook is falsely claiming it's effective in efforts to stop hate and misinformation. and that teenage girl are also victims, casualties of the company's corporate greed. >> evidence of harm she says extends to facebook's instagram app. >> one of the facebook internal studies that you found talks about how instagram harms teenage girls. >> oh, yeah. >> one study says 13.5% of teen girls say i...

Polar polarizing, it's easy to inspire people to anger than other emotions. >> misinformation, angry content. >> yeah. >> is enticing to people -- >> very enticing. >> and keeps them on the platform. >> yes. facebook realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spendless time on the site and click on less ads and make less money. >> she says it's choosing profits over safety. she is not the first person to blow the whistle from inside facebook. other former staffers have also called out the company but this is coming from inside the house in a unique way. in fact, the wh...

In the united states. >> sure, it's absolutely complicated but facebook often is an excel pouring fuel on the fire like how instagram warps people's brains. people used to look at women's magazines and feel bad about their bodies but instagram and facebook is addictive in the way a magazine never ever could be. that addictive quality is one of the reasons why this whistle blower is speaking out. >> and those magazines don't have algorithms to give you more and more content of the thing you're looking at and that is a big difference. all right. brian stelter, thank you so much for bringing us t...