facebook will often make the argument to say we have billions of users, they are posting billions of things everyday. these are ads. these are ads that they are accepting money for and targeting their users on their platform. i think, and that s the key distinction, right? that s what sets this apart. the facebook whistle blower we spoke to congress talked about how quickly facebook could improve this problem. take a listen. facebook s business model is conditioned on fixing problems after they find them. faceb facebook s 2018, zuckerberg said engagement based ranking, that is ads based on their likelihood to provoke reaction to you, which is that the most polarizing content is dangerous and people are drawn to polarizing content.
the problem is the a.i. misses lots and lots of problems. in case of hate speech, only 3 to 5% of hate speech is caught. an astounding percentage. you brought the ad to see facebook s attention. what then if we can bring the ads again side by side, the first comparing to nazi germany, and the holocaust, facebook took those down saying they were against their rules but the other ad make hanging traitors great again, facebook seems to have no problem with it despite this being less than a year we saw gallows outside u.s. capitol but it is news organizations, researchers, academics that have to bring these issues to facebook to ask them why aren t they enforcing their own policies? and of course, it s not just covid misinformation, it s not just political violence. we have heard so much and we will hear more this week about the company s particularly instagram s harm on children and young teenagers. the instagram ceo will be
profiting from those kinds of comparisons. cnn investigator found facebook is selling ads to vendors spewing the same trash, such as this one, likening covid vaccine mandates to the holocaust. uncovering the disturbing ways facebook makes at least some of its money and i got to tell you, when i heard a top line of what this story was when it came out i was kind of slack-jawed it was even possible. what did you find here? reporter: it s probably disgusting stuff what facebook and instagram are allowing on their platforms take a look at this ad we came across. one is a graphic of a needle, the vaccine and says it compares it to a holocaust. another ad we saw says make hanging traitors great again so not only seeing antivaccine misinformation here, or antivaccine posts, but also posts condoning political violence. and these aren t just, you know,
see action this way. seems that way, it s interesting to see democrats evolve on this. reporter: absolutely. and mccarthy, not evolved on this. from capitol hill, thanks my friend. coming up. you are looking at the anger spilling into the streets of europe over new covid restrictions meant to bring down a surge on infections. also ahead, sullivan live on reporting from facebook profiting from hate and misinformation. military families in honolulu want answers tonight after drinking water tainted with petroleum made them sick. you re in the cnn newsroom. . only at t-mobile. ordinary tissues burn when theo blows. so puffs plus lotion rescued his nose. with up to 50% more lotion,
and it knows more about you than the people you work with. 70, more than your friends. 150, more than your family members. and all it takes is 300 and facebook knows you better than your spouse. and i mention it, david, because t the algorithm has such power because it knows us. and it enriches our lives in many ways, right? and i guess the question is facebook could lose control of its algorithm, right? that s why i emphasize it s not an equation, it s a process. it gets a lot of information and data and it feeds into that. um, you know, so saying a company puts profit above people. that s not new. that s been something lodged in various times, at various companies, right? but but what i wonder about here from when they say congress needs to do something, maybe the biggest issue here is that i m not sure really what can be done? yeah. look. throughout history, we ve had private concerns that have ventures that, in some way, threaten the public interest. and we take action. that s