mark zuckerberg defending his company denying claims it prioritizes profits over user safety. jillian: carley shimkus with the media magnet s response for new whistleblower testing. facebook employee turned whistleblower delivered her senate testimony yesterday and she says facebook puts profit over public safety. take a listen. facebook s product time children and we cannot democracy. company leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram, won t make necessary changes since they put their astronomical profits before people. jillian: thousands of internal documents to lawmakers as well as the wall street journal, the company downplays instagram negative affect on teenage mental health among other things. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg hitting back with a lengthy
facebook, as you saw from the response by mark zuckerberg, is saying this is not the company we know, which is in essence saying, we don t know what she s talking about. i think some of the tweets from some of the p.r. people and statements trying to minimize her, trying to make it seem like she s a nobody, that she s not in the big meetings, i think aggression is what they re using here. so it s up to congress now to act. and frankly, they ve done nothing, and so it s at their foot. they have to do something right now. to what you said, this is how mark zuckerberg and others responding tonight you just noted about what he said. writing in part, he said the argument that we deliberately push content that makes people angry for profit is deeply illogical. we make money from ads and advertisers consistently tell us they don t want their ads next to harmful or angry content. so he is saying that haugen s claims don t make sense, right? but she came with receipts.
statement, many claims don t make sense. at the heart of these accusations is this idea we prioritize profits over safety and well-being, that is not true. the argument the we do liberally push content that makes people angry, for-profit is deeply illogical. zuckerberg says he cares deeply about issues of mental health and congress to update internet regulations. we will continue this conversation. todd: enough with the words. awoke war on the streets. and and lightfoot is furious with fox for failing to bring charges against those responsible for the deadly shootout.