you until the invitation and if i can get pass this second verse of justice maybe we can find common ground. there you go. i understand the answer to the question. it s not as black and white as you d like it to be. simmer down. i m with you. i understand your question. we ll get you out in time to get in front of the line. we have a lot to get to this morning. still ahead new reporting on the internal memos from facebook. how a big change the company made in 2018 rewarded outrage. we ll talk to the reporter who broke that story. just a note, joe s new podcast is now live. it s amazing.
algorithm zuckerberg has no board that checks him, no congressman checks him, no senator checks him, no regulator checks him, i don t know if there s ever been a corporation, one person at least in my lifetime that has this much power while he s undermining american democracy, he s making our country a sicker place during the pandemic, he s making our teenage daughters and their friends less healthy, more depressed and more anxious and nobody s checking him. it is, i think, something that facebook should be credited for that we haven t mentioned for, they re doing the research at this point but as you note it s not clear the research is making it out or necessarily changing the course of the company and i think there s a long history in american
facebook. they understand that fauci s life is in danger because of the lies that mark zuckerberg makes off the conspiracy theories he churns up whetherup, whether itt covid, whether it s about fauci, whether it s about january the 6th. yeah, there is a group of senators, richard blumenthal and marsha blackburn, mark zuckerberg said this when confronted about the impact of facebook and instagram on teenagers, the research we ve seen is using social apps connecting with have positive mental health benefits. sort of eluding the point here. but the question is, what is the regulation? what is the legislative act? what is what can the white house do to stop what is really
state of texas through procedure and five justices let them do that. the hell the 77%. 30% are going to rule in texas. on the other side of that, you take mandates for masks, vaccines, that s a 70/30 proposition, and what s happening there, they re the 30%. so, again, the minority wants to run over the majority and disrupt schools, disrupt education, disrupt learning, disrupt small business owners, disrupt entrepreneurs who want to build, create jobs, want to expand their communities, disrupt churches, disrupt synagogues. because of what they read on qanon or on facebook. they re the 30%, 35%. on the other side of the edmund pettis bridge and they re the
industry of companies realizing their products aren t great for the people who use them and sometimes you can fix that and sometimes you can t and sometimes you need to go back to the drawing board and do things really different. what s unclear as you note given the company s leadership is sort of what the impetus is going to be for that sort of rethinking, because it does seem that the company is very comfortable in the idea that s a net positive for us all. all right, technology reporter for the wall street journal, jeff horowitz, thank you so much. please come back. we really appreciate your incredible reporting. one final thing on the parallel thing, willie, you talked about car companies, they fought against seat belts, congress held them accountable. congress is not holding facebook accountable. they fought against airbags