companies. but what the ranking algorithms do, in other words, that s the crucial algorithms that help decide what you see more prominently on your news feed, on facebook, than other pieces of content. if you remove the algorithms, which i think is with frances haugen, is one of her central recommendations. what you would see is more, not less, hate speech, more, not less, algorithms. these work as giant spam filter to identify and deprecate bad content. we need to remember that technology, of course it has downsides, but it also has very positive effects. but my question is specifically about january 6th. did the algorithms that are in place amplify pro insurrection voices ahead of january 6th? yes or no.