explosive testimony from whistleblower and facebook employee francis hougen. this as she testifies before the parliament. i came forward now because now is a critical time to act. when we see something like an oil spill, that oil spill doesn t make it harder to regulate oil companies. but right now facebook authorities are making it harder to regulate facebook. the testimony comes on a day of a big drop, what are called the facebook papers. main takeaways? huge divisions inside facebook, internal complaints that the company gloriies profits over results. she compares facebook, as you
sec, they could, quote, disrupt our operation and see have an adverse effect on our business. how real do you think any threat on facebook could be? facebook earnings, and the company s bottom line has basically totally been unaffected by the social outcry on them. all the documents show is a panic by facebook that they re losing audience on facebook and instagram to tiktok and everything else in the world. i think there are two competing things. one is that facebook is this enormous dominant force, and the other is a real sense inside the company that the wheels may be coming off and that social networks come and go. i do think this deluge of terrible publicity is not
helping, and i think that s one of the reasons they have discussed renaming the company. any insight as to when that announcement will come, ben? no. if i find out first, you ll read about it in the times. i had to ask. i had a feeling. ben smith, thank you for being on. great piece and we re glad to have you talk about it with us. next up, we re heading back to capitol hill. are progressives going to get in line with the bipartisan infrastructure vote? that s something congressmen are asking. and also ilhan omar. can the government and virginia keep the party blue? party blue?