irresponsibility knows absolutely no bounds. the president accuing republicans of playing russian roulette with the economy with a crisis looming that could end with the loss of millions of jobs, higher interest rates on credit cards and probably some unwelcome news for your 401(k). we re one on one with the senate democrat about the path forward in this show. plus, what is up with facebook and instagram? they are down and out around the world with facebook scrambling to fix whatever is going on. they re also trying to fix a pr problem after those whistleblower claims the company put profit over safety. i m hallie jackson with what s turning out to be an interesting afternoon. lee ann caldwell is on capitol hill and we ll also hear from stephanie ruhle. president biden basically called out him and the senate republicans on this debt ceiling issue. that s right, hallie, and what we hear from senator mitch mcconnell will echo what we heard in a letter earlier today where
optimizing for content that gets engage men, a reaction. what its own research is showing that could be tent that is hateful, divisive, that is polarizing, it s easier to transpire people to anger than it is the other emotions. misinformation, angry content is enticing to people. very enticing. and keeps them on the platform? yes. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer people will send less time on the site, they will click on less ads and make less money. haguen says facebook understood the danger to the 2020 election so it turned on safety systems to reduce misinformation. but many of those changes, she says, were temporary. as soon as the election was over, they turned them back off, or they changed the settings back to what they were before to prioritize growth over safety. and that really feels like a betrayal of democracy to me. facebook responded saying every day our teams have to balance protecting the right of billions of pe
Optimizing for content that gets engage men, a reaction. what its own research is showing that could be tent that is hateful, divisive, that is polarizing, it s easier to transpire people to anger than it is the other emotions. misinformation, angry content is enticing to people. very enticing. and keeps them on the platform? yes. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer people will send less time on the site, they will click on less ads and make less money. haguen says facebook understood the danger to the 2020 election so it turned on safety systems to reduce misinformation. but many of those changes, she says, were temporary. as soon as the election was over, they turned them back off, or they changed the settings back to what they were before to prioritize growth over safety. and that really feels like a betrayal of democracy to me. facebook responded saying
Congress steps up. because facebook going away, nicole, you don t think there is going to be another one that fills that space in a nanosecond? there will be another company that will come right behind it doing the same thing because that s the environment we have created on the internet, to reward fear and anger. so i say to the members of congress, quit stalling. get busy and regulate these companies. miles taylor, i want to play more from the whistle-blower on this specific point of they are they know how good they are at disseminating hate. i m going to read it, actually. from facebook s internal research, haguen secretly copied a study this year that said in part, according to 60 minutes, we estimate that we may action as little as 3 to 5% of hate and about .6% of violence and incitement on facebook despite being the best in the world at
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