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Flourish. if it's part of facebook's core function, do they have any interest in actually making their platform safer? >> i mean, i really think a lot of these discussions boil down to exactly that. if people inside of the company -- if the people who know facebook's products the best are saying, look, the way things go viral on this platform can be dangerous to people and we need to tamp those down, and folks tat the top of the compan are either unwilling or unable to rein that in, for whatever reason want to say, if you think it's profit, if you think it's growth, then that's -- you know, th...

Misinformation, violence and gore. again, just by following facebook's recommendations. in response to these test, cases facebook has pointed to changes it said it made to make the platform safer. it also said it has made progress and working to stop abuse, in countries where they're in risk of conflict in violence. it's clear that the problems that tech giants like facebook are facing in creating, our complex, but are also really not getting better overtime, if you're looking to these companies to show bravery, and backbone, so far the evidence that they are capable of, that or inclines in th...

To sort of dig up the stories that facebook is not so willing to present, which, you know, has come through in a lot of these documents. does it show everything that they do inside of facebook? no. but does it show a lot of things they don't want people to see? yeah. and i think that's important for the public to know about. >> that was a very judicious way to answer that question. i thought it was a good answer. i really did. in your reporting on these documents, you write how in august 2019, in an internal memo, researchers said that the core product mechanics, meaning the basics of how the ...

Changes it says it made to make the platform safer. it also has made progress in working to stop abuse in countries where there's a heightened risk of conflict and violence. it's clear that the problems that tech giants like facebook are both facing and creating are complex, but are also really really not getting better over time. and if we are looking to these companies to show bravery and backbone, so far the evidence that they are capable of that or inclined in that way is getting worse over time. worse over time, and seemingly acutely worse recently. how do we solve for that, and who is in...

It's kind of like cigarettes in that way. and they know it's hurting their physical health, their schoolwork or their employment. as time goes on as a parent read by the suicide — as time goes on as a parent read by the suicide of a 14 —year—old i look at the _ the suicide of a 14 —year—old i look at the huge — the suicide of a 14 —year—old i look at the huge corporation with matches resutt— at the huge corporation with matches result and _ at the huge corporation with matches result and say they must be more you can be _ result and say they must be more you can be doing — ...