research on children and in an explosive 60 minutes interview. rather than taking responsibility and showing leadership, mr. zuckerberg is going sailing. his new modus operandi, no apologies, no acknowledgment. nothing to see here. no one is holding ing mark accountable but himself. reporter: they said she only work foed for the company for t years. had no c-level meetings with execu executives. but facebook does agree it is time for congress to make laws to regulate big tech. if you were a member of this panel, would you believe what facebook is saying? i would not believe facebook has not earned a right
to have blind trust in them. facebook has not earned our trust. today is unlikely to be the last day we ll see haugen up here on capitol hill. senator blumenthal mentioned that that committee may bring her back to speak even more about the harms of instagram and facebook can have on children and teenagers and representative adam schiff mentioned yesterday that he may ask her to speak to the house select committee on january 6th to talk about facebook s possible role there. possible culpability in the insurrection. jake? donie, thank you. let s bring in north former facebook insider. adam connor spent seven years on facebook s public and private policy team. what s your reaction to haugen s testimony. did her claim jive? frances haugen showed tremendous courage.
welcome to the lead. this hour, delta versus delta. will the airline join all its other major competitors and require vaccines for employees. she s now producing a series on the scandal that forever changed her life as well as a new hbo max documentary on people who have had their lives ruined in the internet age. monica lewinsky will join me live. first, leading this hour, damning tell-all testimony from a facebook whistleblower who claims the company is well aware its social media feeds and algorithms are toxic and ad addicting for teenage girls but they re doing it. when haugen resigned she took tens of thousands of pages of internal research with her. she told a senate committee facebook is putting its long-term profits over the
technology causes teenagers. kids bullied on instagram, the bullying follows them home. follows them into their bedrooms. i think we re going to look back 20 years from now and all of us are going to be like, what in the hell were we thinking when we recognize the damage that s done to a generation of kids. reporter: haugen s call to action, it s time for congress to vote to regulate facebook. the company s leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer, but won t make the necessary changes because they ve put their astronomical profits before people. congressional action is needed. they won t solve this crisis without your help. reporter: the hearing also took stark aim at facebook s ceo mark zuckerberg who posted a video sailing with his family on sunday, just before haugen exposed some of the company s
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 problem for the social media giant. facebook s own research shows that kids are saying kids are saying, i am unhappy when i use instagram, and i can t stop. reporter: powerful testimony on capitol hill today from frances haugen. the facebook whistleblower who left the company in may and took with her thousands of pages of internal company documents, including facebook s own research about the har