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Highly regarded by chinese consumers.— highly regarded by chinese consumers. . ~ , ., y . consumers. thank you very much for our consumers. thank you very much for your analysis. _ let's take a look at facebook now, which has posted a $9 billion profit for the third quarter. however, the social media giant did see a dip in advertising revenues due to a recent privacy update by apple, which made it more diifcult for brands to target adds to users based on their online search history. the results come amid fresh claims of unethical behaviour made by a former employee, frances haugen, who accus...

Mark zuckerberg defending his company denying claims it prioritizes profits over user safety. jillian: carley shimkus with the media magnet's response for new whistleblower testing. >> facebook employee turned whistleblower delivered her senate testimony yesterday and she says facebook puts profit over public safety. take a listen. >> facebook's product time children and we cannot democracy. company leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram, won't make necessary changes since they put their astronomical profits before people. jillian: thousands of internal documents to lawmakers as w...

Saying that the platform whether facebook knows it or not is being utilized by some of our adversaries in a way that helps push and promote their interest at the expense of america's? >> yeah, facebook is very aware this is happening on the platform. ainsley: the whistleblower who says facebook puts profits over user safety also raising national security concerns during her senate testimony about how the big tech giant handles espionage efforts from adversaries like iran. wyoming senator cynthia lummis was just one of many senators who questioned that whistleblower on capitol hill. and she sit...

Division. >> zuckerberg shared a letter he wrote to facebook employees where he denied the allegations, saying they paint a false picture of the company. he called haugen's claim that facebook puts profit ahead of user safety, quote, deeply illogical and at odds with facebook goals. now, just moments ago on "new day," the senator in charge of that hearing essentially told the facebook boss to put up or shut up. >> he ought to spend more time looking at the platform as many of his own staff well know. and i'm hoping there are other whistle-blowers out there and more documents. we can't count on...

To researchers. we probably need a mechanism for user safety audits so that, again, the public can begin to rebuild some trust. but i think the single most important thing is we need some kind of federal regulation to block facebook from putting its own profits ahead of user safety. that's what has to stop. >> listen, it is a rare bipartisan issue, democratic and republican lawmakers taking aim here, the question is can that work its way through the current legislative stalemates on capitol hill, something like that. laura, thank you for the work you're doing. >> thanks. well, the troubling ...