populous, stoke division and chaos, republicans are willing to go along with and are amplifying and/or enabling, and i think what they you know, i think i first said it on your program because you asked the best question, which was i have interviewed very senior republican members of congress who say they are afraid of their constituents at home. they re afraid if they tell them what s really going on, what s really happening, that this is that this is all manufactured almost like an enormouses a astroturf lobby campaign. they re afraid of their own constituents. that fear is a physical fear as evidenced by the way romney was personally attacked as he flew back to certify the election, attacked on an airplane,
is the companies want to work with the regulator and comply. but people would know if they don t, then there are meaningful penalties in place. again, it seems to me it s a grey area. i mean, you mentioned frances haugen and her testimony in washington, dc and her revelations, as she put it, about the negative impacts that facebook knew that some of its sites were having particularly on young minds. now, she says, and i m quoting her direct, i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. her point wasn t necessarily about individual posts. it was about the algorithm. it was about the whole approach that facebook takes to attracting eyeballs and monetizing its product. are you saying that as part of your taking on of big tech, you want them to be much more
particularly on young minds. now, she says, and i m quoting her direct, i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. her point wasn t necessarily about individual posts. it was about the algorithm. it was about the whole approach that facebook takes to attracting eyeballs and monetizing its product. are you saying that as part of your taking on of big tech, you want them to be much more transparent about their secret sauce, their algorithms, the way that they use their product to draw in and keep eyeballs? yes, absolutely. this has got to be a lot more than just content moderation, looking at individual bits of content and saying, should that be taken down or not? it s saying the systems are driving that content through the internet. that is why this legislation is necessary. that is why the harm
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as we examine the threats to our democracy, we talked about the role of radio, fox, and podcasts. but you cannot ignore the role played by social media. in the words of facebook whistleblower frances haugen, here s what she had to say. i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. they have put their astronomical profits before people. we know on january 6 facebook staffers acknowledged what should have been obvious, writing, quote, we ve been fuelling this fire for a long time, and history will not judge us kindly. the mueller investigation showed the power of social media as a weapon used to weaken our democracy. we saw it on the sixth, moves