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The choices that are happening on the platform are about how we acted to achieve the platform. how viral was the platform? facebook changed those safety defaults in the runup to the election because they knew they wanted that acceleration of the platform back. >> sandra: senator blackburn was in that hearing today. she will join us. but we begin with jackie. >> good afternoon. so interesting to watch this all morning. francis haugen had a lot to say. she's an employee with a conscious. >> the company's leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer but won't make the necessary chang...

Own experiments show the algorithm can veer people interested in conservative topics into radical or polarizing ideas in groups and pages and sites a facebook study that new users that follow the quote verified high quality conservative pages such as fox news or the former president saw polarizing content within a day and quote conspiracy recommendations within two days. it tookless than a week to get a qanon recommendation. >> facebook has been emphasizing a false choice. they said the safeguards that were in place before the election implicated free speech. the choices that were happening on...

Content on the system, the re-shares over the impacts to misinformation, hate speech, or violence incitement. >> reporter: haugen testifying to the senate about what the company did and did not do to confront the spread of misinformation leading up to the 2020 election and beyond. >> 60 minutes, you said that facebook implemented safeguards to reduce misinformation ahead of the 2020 election. but turned off those safeguards right after the election. and you know that the insurrection occurred january 6th. do you think that facebook turned off the safeguards because they were costing the compan...

Steered, essentially to conversations about annexia. being bullied by classmates. and miss haugen talking about violence and hate speech. and before the election, yes, facebook essentially turned it off, turned the switch to set a higher bar. but then reopened the floodgates. >> the choices that were happening on the platform were really about how we acted and twitchy was the platform, how viral was the platform. and facebook changed those safety defaults in the runup to the election because they knew they were dangerous. because they wanted that growth back, the platform back after the electi...

0 with no line-activation fees or term contract required. see if you can save by switching today. comcast business. powering possibilities. good morning. >> welcome to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world. breaking news right now. critical pushback against the powers of social media today in a matter of minutes, facebook whistleblower will testify before a senate panel. she claim that is facebook is prioritizing profit over public good by knowingly peddling disinformation. in fact, hiding the results of its own internal studies. we're going to go live to the hearing once it begi...