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Instagram, negatively impact kids. >> kids who are bullied on instagram, the bullying follows them home. it follows them into their bedrooms. the last thing they see before they go to bed at night is someone being cruel to them or the first thing they see in the morning is someone being cruel to them. >> reporter: senator richard blumenthal calling the revelations jaw-dropping and comparing facebook to big tobacco. >> it is documented proof that facebook knows its products can be addictive and toxic to children. and it's not just that they made money, again. it's that they valued their profit ...

Self-regulation. they say explicitly, i feel bad when i use instagram and yet, i can't stop. >> question then becomes, donie, you know, what next? what regulatory steps, what can you force this company which has resisted these efforts before and which spends a boat load on lobbyists, you get a few situations like this, and facebook's money machine kicks in and nothing happens. >> reporter: republicans and democrats have believed for a long time there has to be a regulation, a big tech, on ideas of what's happened. most of that has been and national debate in this country about social media has...

They'll do that is by making sure that children establish habits before they have good self-regulation. >> by hooking kids. >> by hooking kids. >> i'd like to emphasize one of the documents we sent in on problematic use examined the rates by age and that piqued with 14-year-olds. it's just like cigarettes. teens don't have good self-regulation. they say i feel bad when i use instagram, but yet i can't stop. we need to protect the kids. >> my final question. i have a long list of misstatements, misdirections, and outright lies from the company. i don't have the time to read them, but you're as ...

Manually go in and reset some servers to make it happen. so a terrible technical day, so i think it's more of the symbolism than the technical glitch that really has had its standing out for everybody today. >> and leann, is congress today any closer to both parties agreeing on how congress can best take steps to regular utility social media companies like facebook? or even if congress should be doing that? >> well, jose, there's bipartisan outrage at facebook and social media companies, and there has been for a couple of years. but there's no agreement on how to move forward and how to regula...

Teenagers don't have good self-regulation. they say explicitly, i feel bad when i use staiinstagram, and y can't stop. >> reporter: senators on both sides of the aisle here seem to be rather impressed by haugen, even suggests they could work for bipartisan legislation to crack down. ana. >> facebook has had numerous regulations over the years. is this one different? >> reporter: yeah, in the past, it's been about data, it's been about russian trolls, that sort of thing. this is about the most vulnerable people in our society. children. it's about young people. and unfortunately, it's an an inc...