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
good evening. welcome to bbc news. we are beginning this hour with the shooting in the danish capital of copenhagen. several people have been killed in the danish capital copenhagen after a shooting at a shopping centre in the city. a 22 year old man from denmark has been arrested after chaotic scenes at the fields mall in the east of the city. police say there is no indication that other gunmen were present but police cannot rule out terrorism as the motive of the incident. the chief police inspector told journalists at a news briefing just a few minutes ago that several people were killed. the motive of the gunman, described by the police as an ethnic dane, you have just heard that they cannot rule out terrorism, but they have not confirmed any motive. those are the latest lines coming from that news conference. booster emil kirchner is a freelance journalist and knows the shopping mall area well. very surprised. denmark is a very peaceful country, we are not used to these
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