shows over 650,000 posts were made on facebook posts attacking joe biden s win and encouraging violence. facebook s spokesman told the post that the notion that facebook could have prevented the insurrection was absurd. for more on facebook s role in the insurrection and what they ve done, i m joined by the co-author of an ugly truth: inside facebook s battle for domination. i ve come to the conclusion over the last year that the single biggest problem we have in this country is our broken information ecosystem and i think it s best represented by how it is thanks to facebook, you now have a main line into millions of people, conspiracy theories. you look at a dan bongino who is just one of these infotainment grifters who just rides this algorithm train. and he s made a fortune doing
joining us to discuss, sheera franklin. co-author of an ugly truth: inside facebook s battle for domination. so reading through these papers, what is your biggest takeaway? i think it s shocking how many times employees within facebook really did the research and showed their own executives how deep the problems in the company ran. i think as a reporter on the outside we sort of had an inkling to this. a lot of examples. we an our own research in a limited way, but the research done by facebook s employees is incredibly comprehensive. and to know that they were sitting on all of this really hard date about the harms that a company was doing and didn t change course, i think that s just really startling. one of the leaked facebook documents includes details about an internal experiment. a facebook employee created a fake account for fictitious person who could be a conservative leaning north
liability for his role. the d.c. attorney general named him in a privacy lawsuit, saying today facebook has not been cleared from capital riot investigation. our community identified facebook and some other platforms as important to our investigation, but at this point, we have not made a decision one way or the other on facebook s role. joining me now, author of an ugly truth: inside facebook s battle for domination and also senior reporter at the verge. what were internal researchers learning about the harm that was being done to users? well, as these documents show and there is going to be a lot more coming out over the next couple of weeks, facebook knows that its algorithms can push
sides. all right, hayes brown, thank you. good to see you. coming up, everybody, in our next hour, cecilia, new york times reporter and author of an ugly truth: inside facebook s battle for domination will join me live to dig into facebook s response and what the future of regulation could, keyword could look like. still ahead, vanishing before our eyes. what is being done to save an iconic landscape from the impact of climate change? stick with us. from the impact of climate change? stick with us. hey, everyone, i m alicia menendez, ahead for us on american voices, the former president in iowa. of note is who it is he is there stumping for and what it tells us about trump s continued hold on gop. plus, the show that is sweeping the nation. why squid game is such a game changer. all of that is ahead. 6:00 p.m. eastern, american voices, right here on msnbc. icn voices, right here on msnbc een. (woman) you have? (burke) sure, this is the part where all is lost and
our leadership in this company, including mark zuckerberg, have called for this regulation because we think these are important decisions we shouldn t be deciding for ourselves. reporter: but, of course, jake, facebook might have a very different idea than frances haugen of what that regulation should look like. but, jake, that zuckerberg response, oh, boy, she really got under his skin. donie, thanks so much. let s bring in cecilia. she covers technology for the new york times. we ve had her on the show before. she co-authored an ugly truth: inside facebook s battle for domination. good to see you. zuckerberg, not surprisingly, took issue with the whistleblower s entire testimony. not accepting the premise but i d like to ask you about this. the basic premise of the whistleblower and all previous whistleblowers is that facebook values profits over even basic decency. when there s a decision to make, when the algorithms are spearing