Said on 60 minutes. as these young women consume eating disorder content, they get more and more depressed, it actually makes them use the app more so they end up in this feedback cycle where they hate their bodies more. facebook s own research says it is not just that instagram is dangerous for teenagers, it harms teenagers. it s distinctly worse than other social media. do you deny that that research exists? there are there s research we have put out. in fact, we put out more than 400 research papers that we have participated in or released ourselves in the past year alone, and there is this survey that is not the same thing as peer-reviewed research, but has nevertheless, we ve published this as well. that survey has been mischaracterized. am i saying everybody has a great experience, no, but what that survey says is that the majority of teens who were surveyed, it s a small number, who are struggling with these issues, for the majority of them, it made things better or didn t h
Top of the hour, i m alisyn camerota. i m victor blackwell. the message from whistleblower frances haugen is that facebook should declare moral bankruptcy and seek help from congress. she testified in front of a senate committee today sf. she s the former employee of accusing the social media giant of knowing how harmful their algorithm is for children and our entire democracy. i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division, and weaken our democracy. the company s leadership knows how to make facebook an instagram saver and won t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. congressional action is needed. they won t solve this crisis without your help. cnn s donie o sullivan joins
And that story we mentioned at the very end, this disinformation that s kind of massacre aiding in other texts. explain what s going on there. on facebook if you were to create a group that said the vaccine is filled with poison, you shouldn t take it that would get taken down very quickly. facebook does not allow that. so what are anti-vaxers doing to remain on the platform inthey re changing the names of their groups to dance party or dinner party or swim party or things like that. and once you re in the group they replace the word vaccine with dance or beer or something. moderna gets changed to moana that sort of thing. they are doing code word switches. it s allowing them to stay on there, and there s no way that facebook s moderation bots can catch this stuff. nothing is that advanced because they just change the topic and then they change the nouns in those topics to suit the vaccine. but doesn t facebook know which groups these are sfr even though you change the name of
Commissioner roger goodal, told teams this week if they had an outbreak among their players they would forfeit a game, and no player on either team would get paid for that week. could this be a model future companies might follow, or do we just need better information overall? some anti-vaccination groups on facebook are using coded language to spread this information without getting flagged by moderators. they substitute words like dancing for vaccination. so much to discuss this hour with our saturday night panel. joining us tonight ben collins. he covers disinformation and extremism online. davidson, a sports and cultural writer for the athletic, author of loving sports when they don t love you back, dilemmas of the modern fan. and comedian and actor helen hall, you might know her from wait, wait don t tell me or the netflix hit never have i ever. hello, helen, hello, everybody. and ben, let me start with you.
In-group it should be able to trace that s the same account with a new name, right? yeah, hypothetically, right? sometimes they build up followers, anti-vaccine followers on facebook and ips tugram are not big famous people to regular parts of the planet, but they are big to people big in the national health community or already anti-vaccine to begin with, which so really facebook s next step is to look at this on the after level as they d call it in terrorism, to look at it on the level of the people who keep pushing this stuff and not go hunting for just p words on their own platform. there s been movement among some conservative politicos, well-known figures, republican lawmakers who have kind of changed their tune in terms of getting vash vaccinated. that includes fox news show host hannity who s walked back some of what he said.