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>> what you have here today is a former employee who didn't work on these issues, and was just at the company a couple years, mischaracterizing some documents she stole on some issues that frankly are really important and people want to talk about that. they should want to talk about that. but i want to make sure they're getting accurate information about what we're actually doing to make this a safe place. >> more of that interview in this show and tonight on nbc nightly news in our full report with those comments from her coming after hours of statements like the ones we're about to show you...

Safety of your children. take a listen. >> they have to make sure that next generation is just as engaged with instagram as the current one. and the way they'll do that is by making sure that children establish habits before they have good self-regulation. >> by hooking kids? >> by hooking kids. >> not to mention all the damage facebook is doing to democracies around the world. and as this whistleblower came forward this week, facebook's ceo zuckerberg was posting video of his sailing trip as his company faced a firestorm. how lovely. as donie o'sullivan reports, that is sparking yet another p...

Giant that apparently is willing to grow the all costs. >> reporter: yeah, frances haugen, the facebook whistle-blower is proving to be an incredibly powerful witness. she's a tech insider, but she's able to speak and explain these, you know, rather complicated algorithms and how these systems work in a way that normal people can understand. have a listen. >> facebook understands that if they want to continue to grow, they have to find the users. they have to make sure that the next generation is just as engaged with instagram as the current one. and the way they'll do that is by making sure t...

The country over the last ten years. here's frances haugen speaking about what emily referred to. watch this. >> i would be sincerely surprised if they don't work on instagram kids. one of the documents that we sent in examines the problematic use by age and peaked with 14-year-olds. it's just like cigarettes. teens done have self-regulation. they say i feel bad when i use instagram and yet i can't stop. >> so we've been hearing from congress for a long time about the understanding and acknowledging this problem. but i feel like we've been waiting for them to do some regulation for so long. is...

Facebook, but facebook certainly, play an incredibly important role in the sharing of misinformation, and that's a huge problem. it's across the board. obviously what we learned about how much they knew about how damaging their algorithm was particularly to young girls, young women, on top of -- on top of everything that they've done to spread misinformation unchecked on the vaccine, for example, it's incredibly dangerous. he's said they have a responsibility, and he believes that as part of the ecosystem, they need to be -- the self-regulation that we are seeing is not sufficient. so he's loo...