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Facebook and different entities have impacted the overall spablt that usually democracies are trying to create. >> they are being extremely dangerous. we have been talking about this the most of the morning. it seems like facebook knew this himself and it's not just wireless and countries. vladimir putin security services, how people set themselves up. and feeling discourse. >> and this is exactly the problem of democracy. honestly, i think there should be following -- >> we have to play it it to

Fantastic. so many users are back scrolling to their feeds after facebook experienced global outages for over six hours and that included since gram and whatsapp. a whistle blower came forward claiming the company prioritizes profits over safety. halie jackson has more. >> reporter: massive and mysterious, a global outage taking down facebook around the world for hours. along with instagram and whatsapp which facebook owns. a top executive taking to twitter for sincere apologies. one facebook employee telling nbc news everyone is just sort of standing around with the outage affecting everyth...

He was fascinated and troubled by and worried by, the way nonsense mediums and a fake news evacuate in the balkin. >> we are taking our as? affecting our progress and election, 2016. the great can see of facebook is facebook goes like this. we are not a newspaper. we are not a website. we are just a kind of place where you can exchange information, a public square. therefore, we are immune to that but that is balogney. these tech giants have had an

This chorus have grown and we heard so much inside of how dangerous it's and to kids and many people around the world. >> they are definitely freaked out. they sent around the pr e-mail ahead of the whistleblower appearing on "60 minutes," they're clearly trying to get ahead of it. i do think they're going into today's hearing specifically on child safety with a little less worry. that's because the whistleblower came forward. they know who she is. she gave multiple interviews yesterday. they kind of have a sense what she's going review. the next question for facebook is this, if somebody down...

Watching what's happening around the world with facebook and social media and the impact it had on democracy. >> is there something of the alliance that you worried about thinking discussed or getting engage ld in because to an extent of the alliance is based on the strength of information and facts being valued and disinformation being put away. >> the debate in the united states, three of them are especially free and independent press. nato is there to protect democracies and harm democracies also. >> and their liable information. a what role have we seen? russia have been behind extensive d...