Planet uses facebook. more than 60%. so the connected internet users on planet earth use some sort of platform. martha: we ve been hearing from congress that they want regulation. that s true. but i was everyone is making this tobacco, social media analogy. what happened with tobacco, they decided to stop smoking. communities have to get together, parents have to get together. how about one day a week? we all log off in our school system. we don t use social media or extra points if you don t have accounts. it has to be driven by the consumer, parents and the community to see any change in this toxic device for young people. you can t legislate it? are you going to break up facebook? martha: it s going to happen but it s going to be driven by people and choice. thanks, susan. see what happens when it comes back on. i m happy to not look at it for a while personally. switching gears here.
We had that a few months ago when amazon and home depot went down. a few months ago, remember fast? it s an interconnected internet. it connects phones and laptops and pcs. that went down. that s why bloomberg and new york times went down as well. martha: so interesting. you take away the kids phone. it s like an addiction release. that is sandra: that s what we heard from 60 minutes. martha: that s what we heard from this woman at facebook. they continue to push we ve been hearing this for a while. anything that keeps people in and sadly the negative messages or the messages that make you feel less than are even more addictive than the messages that are mossive. think about it. facebook is incentivized to keep you on their platforms. that s how they push their advertisements and make money. think about how much of the
Can your refresh? i can refresh. i don t want to look at it. we re not sure if it s localized. we don t know if asia is working. the internet not only connects us but interconnected with different companies what a tough 24 hours for facebook. not only for the 60-minutes westle blower but the stock is having the west day of the year. what s app, facebook and instagram and the workplace. so internally, they can t communicate. martha: why is this happen something. we don t think it s a cyber attack. why would it say for sale? that sounds yeah, they ve been trying to connect the platforms together. it s part of zuckerberg s plan to connect them all. maybe it s a cloud platform that is not connecting.
sandra: it s a good retort to it will cost you zero. the prices are going up is because we spend $5 trillion on relief from covid. so you flush the market with all of this free money hand that s why people s prices are going up. it s already not cost you zero. it s costing you every time you go to the pump and everywhere else. mitch mcconnell is going to speak. we re going to that. leader mcconnell, as soon that gets underway. thanks very much. great to see you. sandra: thank you. martha: also, we want to talk about this. the outage of facebook. it s a big deal, instagram and what s app. breaking details on this story. everyones minutes are going down for social media this week. the latest on lieutenant miller in military prison now for standing up to his superiors over the chaotic exit over
Into the story when it continue shortly. we are going to take them through all of this as this continues. thank you for joining us, i am sandra smith in new york. and mike martha: thanks very much. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum in new york. this is the story. listen. we were you unable, mr. president, to close the deal with members of your own part on key parts of your legislative agenda last week? i was unable to close the deal with 99% of my party. two people. martha: so we will see. these two people that he refers to, democrat senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin are pushing back on the biggest tax and spend program in the united states history. they re getting harranged by