facebook whistleblower broke her silence on 60 minutes saying its products are harmful to our children and harmful to our democracy. francis hougan walked out of her facebook job with thousands of documents, promptly leaked to the wall street journal. she ll testify tomorrow morning before congress after she agreed to blow her cover and tell her story last night. one of the consequences of how facebook is picking out that content today is that it is optimizing for content that gets engagement or reaction. but its own research is showing that content that is hateful, that is divisive, that is polarizing, it s easier to inspire people to anger than it is to other emotions. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they ll click on less ads, they ll make less money. facebook over and over again has shown it chooses profit over safety. it is subsidizing, it is paying for its profits with our safety. faceb
stopped working for most of the day. three billion customers worldwide, unable to access any of, it shares of facebook down 5% in just one day, timing here was curious, because it was just hours after a facebook whistle blower, broke her silence on 60 minutes, saying its products are harmful to our children, and harmful to our democracy. francis haugen walk out of her facebook job with thousands of documents, promptly week to the wall street journal, she ll testify tomorrow morning before congress, after she agreed to blow her, cover and tell her story last night. one of the consequences of how facebook is picking up that content today, is it is optimizing for content that gets engagement. a reaction. but its own research is showing, that content that is hateful, that is divisive, that is polarizing, it s easier to inspire people to anger, than it is to other emotions, facebook has realized, that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time and the,
into what went wrong. we re also tracking the rise and stunning fall of ozzy media, the media company reportedly told staff they were shutting down after high level company misconduct. the ceo said rumors of the company s demise have been greatly exaggerated. i ll share my exclusive conversation with him on today in minutes. we start with the latest on president biden s agenda. nbc s senior white house reporter standing by for the president s speech. nbc capitol hill correspondent on the hill for us. and i m also joined by joe corrally, former democratic congressman new york that i saw and asked him to come on. joe, thank you. shannon, 15 minutes from now we ll hear from president biden. vote on the infrastructure bill that he backed is on hold. there s no agreed to framework on the spending he backs. but what do we expect to hear from president bide snn. expect to hear him put pressure on republicans to take some action on this and ratchet up the pressure on them. this
crumbling. you could have the rich getting richer through the status quo. that s what this is all about. that s what this clash is about. in fa, think about it like this. twice in just the last 24 hours nate republicans have been blocng the congress from going forward on simply payin for the bills they already ran up in the trump era through this process that we ve been covering for you that s called raising the debt ceiling. this is stuff the government already bought. republican party is saying, its position, they call it a negotiating position but it s so very real, it s all coming to a head right now. their position is they don t want to pay f the things they already bought. it is obviously not fiscally responsible. then today mitch mcconnell getting into what heikes to do at times like this, other people are hot and bothered but he s just trolling and saying it s the other folks being obstructionists. so, look, time for our democratic colleagues to stop dragging their
party again. congresswoman becca ballet of the budget committee is here to discuss. reparations, a judge dismissed a lawsuit from survivors of the tulsa massacre as california considers its own a statewide plan. i will talk with the chair of a california s reparations task force and al sharpton about this burgeoning a national debate. i m jonathan capehart. this is the sunday show. this morning, president biden flies to europe. he will meet with king charles iii and the british prime minister on monday before heading to a critical nato summit in vilnius, lithuania on tuesday. looming over the discussions will be president biden s controversial decision to provide cluster bombs to ukraine as it defends itself in a now 500-day war instigated by russia. clustered munitions scuttle scattered stronger bombs over wider terrain because they have a high failure rate. they can linger on the ground for days, weeks, even years, and then detonate, creating a higher risk to civilians. tha