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Down laura's account, the company said because of her research. there was some back and forth on that. laura said it was because research, but facebook denied that. i want to pick up where donie left off. it is so disturbing. it is hard enough for young girls and in many cases for young boys to not feel inadequate, to feel everything they're doing is wrong and doesn't measure up. when you have a platform that is directing them to sites that in the words of this father promoted being miserable, that showed that maybe suicide was the only way out, his daughter took her own life, to say that's da...

User. i wanted to play this one piece of sound if we have time from an interview on "new day" this morning with a father of a person who suffered because of this. have a listen. >> what we discovered after her death was that she had been seeing material on various platforms, but instagram was one of them, that promoted just being miserable. first of all, she would have seen material that made her feel miserable and hopeless and encourage that sort of depression and anxiety. and then even more worryingly she saw material that suggested suicide might be the only way out. >> and that is unfortuna...

To researchers. we probably need a mechanism for user safety audits so that, again, the public can begin to rebuild some trust. but i think the single most important thing is we need some kind of federal regulation to block facebook from putting its own profits ahead of user safety. that's what has to stop. >> listen, it is a rare bipartisan issue, democratic and republican lawmakers taking aim here, the question is can that work its way through the current legislative stalemates on capitol hill, something like that. laura, thank you for the work you're doing. >> thanks. well, the troubling ...