saying this is hard stuff, we can t find it all, we re never going to be able to solve all our problems while also turning a multibillion dollar profit. and just one more thing i want to add, brianna, last week we reported on this show how there were ads, paid ads, running on facebook, comparing the vaccine to the holocaust and comparing covid restrictions in the u.s. to nazi germany. now, when we brought those ads to facebook s attention, they said they were against their covid misinformation policies and took them down. last night we found the same ads, the exact same ads are still running on the platform. so they re not even able to catch the stuff that has been brought to their attention that they have found is against their policies, so there is little hope, i think. i think that is quite reflective, i guess, of how lack how much lack of a handle they have on their platform. well, look, where there is a will, there is a way.
profits have never been higher, so it, you know, when you re faced you re never going to go on media or stand in front of congress and go, you know what, we re killing it and likely we should have our tax rates go up. so i would argue we kind of have been overrun when there are more paid lobbyists from amazon living in d.c. than sitting u.s. senators, when the pr communications group of facebook is greater than the newsroom at the washington post. you know, you could argue that media and journalists and government has been overrun by corporate interests. and the more money, the more lobbyists, right? there is also this evidence that we re seeing that companies, they aren t just raising prices to cover their costs from inflation. they re padding their margins as well. are they taking advantage of inflation to do that? yeah. i mean, the words there are we have to be careful with the words. every ceo and board is there to return to to create a return
is happening on the platform. and oftentimes instagram and facebook will say, well, you know, this is really hard. it is hard to find this stuff. it is hard to stamp out this stuff. but clearly it is not that hard if somebody can run a simple experiment as a child and find this stuff so easily. brianna? it may not be allowed, but clearly it is allowed. that s what we re seeing here. what are you expecting to learn in this hearing today, donie? what is interesting about today is that it is adam mosseri, one of zuckerberg s top lieutenants, but it is very different to zuckerberg. he is seen as quite personable. it is his first time testifying before congress. and unlike zuckerberg, he hasn t got that public scrutiny that we have seen of other executives like sandberg or mark himself. even this year mosseri was honored as a co-chair of the met gala. this is going to be his first time testifying. i expect us to hear the regular kind of excuses, to be honest,