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They have the opportunity to go in and address other kinds of issues. they -- what we want to make sure we don't have happen, erica, is that they go, okay, we have done it, and walk away. because facebook is just the canary in the coal mine, if you will. it is the example of the kinds of abuses that have happened because for the last couple of decades, we have allowed the innovators, god bless them, we have allowed the innovators to make the rules. they have come pseudo governments. and we need the real government to step up and say, no. here are the rules that are going to apply in the digita...

Tens of thousands of internal documents, and that research, she says, shows facebook needs to hit the reset button. >> they're paying for their profits right now with our safety. >> reporter: former facebook employee frances haugen told senators facebook is looking to hook kids early, hoping they'll also bring their parents online. but she says the company's own research shows its instagram platform can be harmful to teens, even addictive, especially for some girls. >> it's just like cigarettes. teenagers don't have good self-regulation. they say explicitly "i feel bad when i use instagram and...

It follows them into their bedrooms. the last thing they see before they go to bed is someone being cruel or the first thing they see in the morning is someone being cruel to them. kids are learning their own friends, people who care about them are cruel to them. i would like to emphasize one of the documents on problematic use examined the rates of problematic use by age and that peaked with 14-year-olds, it's just like cigarettes. teenagers don't have good self-regulation. they say explicitly i feel bad when i use instagram and yet i can't stop. >> you can hear there why she is an absolute n...

Friends, like people who care about them, are cruel to them. i would like to emphasize one of the documents that bewe sent in examined the rates of problematic use by age and that peaked with 14-year-olds. it's just like cigarettes. teenagers don't have good self-regulation. they say explicitly, i feel bad when i use instagram, and yet i can't stop. >> i mean, it's so heartbreaking. dr. stroman, victor and i were talking before the program. that means there's no escape from the bullying. you can't turn it off. >> there's no respite. >> yeah. >> there is no respite and if you add this in at the...

>> reporter: frances haugen, the facebook whistle-blower, painting a stark picture of a tech giant with tremendous power and little sense of responsibility. >> the choices being made inside of facebook are disastrous for our children, for our public safety, for our privacy and for our democracy. and that is why we must demand facebook make changes. >> reporter: haugen, a former facebook project manager, smuggled thousands of documents out of the company. internal research that she claims shows facebook knows the negative impact of its business model. haugen saying the more anger facebook users...