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You can't take credit for all of that and then say, oh, that thing called the insurrection, we had nothing to do with that. >> reporter: another revelation from the documents, an internal memo including details of a facebook staffer setting up a test account to see what facebook's algorithms were recommending to users. 2019, a facebook employee sets up an account designed to look a 41-year-old conservative mom living in north carolina. her name is carol smith. she likes a few pages. she likes trump. she likes fox news. in a week, she's getting a qanon recommendation. i saw in there that after ...

Polarizing content. conspiracy theory recommendations started on day two. after about a week the account received a k non-- q anon. two, false content, and week three the accounts news feed was an intensifying mix of misinformation, misleading and recycled content polarizing memes and con smirsy content dispersed with engagement bait. >> you can sy why are we taking the incredibly out there topics q anon, why are these things facebook is choosing to show you and it's because those things get the highest engagement. >> gasoline on a fire. >> reporter: facebook says it uses things like that test...

>> reporter: facebook added a statement it has expressly disclosed to investors the risk remains of misinformation, hate speech and extremism occurring on its platforms. >> what happened between election day and january 6th on the platform? >> there were a lot of people who were angry, fearful. they spread the fears to more people and then, when they had to choose which content from the groups to put into people's new feeds, they picked the content most likely to engage us which happened to be angry, hateful content. imagine your scene every day the election was stolen, the election was stolen...