europe, they were ultimately responsible for the immorality of the pain it s caused. facebook needs to take responsibility for the consequences of its choices. it needs to be willing to accept small tradeoffs on profit and i think just that act of being able to admit that it s a mixed bag is important and i think what bwe saw from antigone, instead of focusing on the good they do, admit they have responsibilities to always remedy the harm. but mark zuckerberg s new policy is no apologies, no admissions, no acknowledgment. nothing to see here. we re going to deflect it and go sailing. i turn to the ranking member. thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for your testimony. i want to stay with miss davis
nothing. zilch. in any major way. why? because there are lobbyists around every corner of this bui building that have been hired be i the tech industry. we have done nothing when it comes to making the algorithms more transparent allowing for the university research. why? because facebook and other tech companies are throwing a bunch of money around this town and people are listening to them. we have done nothing significantly passed although we are on a bipartisan basis working to get something done on consolidation, which you understand allow it is dominant platforms to control all this like the bullies in the neighborhood, buy out the companies that maybe could have competed with them, and added the bells and whistles. so the time for action is now. so i ll start with something that i asked facebook s head of safety when she testified last week. i asked her how they estimate the lifetime value of a user for kids who start using their
facebook. we can afford nothing less than full transparency. as long as facebook is operating in the shadows, hiding its research from public scrutiny, it is unaccountable. until the incentives change, facebook will not change. left alone, facebook will continue to make choices that go against the common good. our common good. when we realize big tobacco was hiding the armharms it caused, government took action. when we figured out cars were safer with seat belts, the government took action and when we learned opioids were taking lives, the government took action. today, facebook shapes our perception of the world by choosing the information we see. even those who don t news facebook are impacted by the majority who do. a company with such frightening influence over people, their
facebook time and time again as put profit. when they say it made teen girls thoughts of suicide worse, they made instagram kids, when they found out their algorithms are fostering polarization, misinformation and hate that they allowed 99% of their content to remain unchecked on their platform, including lead up to the january 6th insurrection, what did they do? now mark zuckerberg is going sailing. the time has come for action and i think you are the catalyst. you have said privacy legislation is not enough. i completely agree with you, but i think you know, we have not done anything to update our privacy laws in this country. our federal privacy laws.
action, nothing to see here. mark zuckerberg, you need to come before this committee. you need to explain to frances, to us, to the world, and to the parents of america what you were doing and why you did it. instagram s business model is pretty straightforward. more eyeballs, more dollars. everything facebook does is to add more users and keep them on their apps for longer. in order to hook us, instagram uses our private information to precisely target us with content and recommendations, assessing that what will provoke a reaction will keep us scrolling. far too often, these reco recommendations are destructive behaviors. as we showed on thursday, we