he wants him because he s making a fool of himself saying we ain t got nothing but a squirrel fire and a hound dog says something like that. what was the first one? squirrel fryer. oh, fryer. right. by the way, speaking of eating fried squirrel, did you hear about the new liz cheney book that came out, willie? yes. there s a lot there. but here s my what a jump around, joe. here s my favorite line from it, though. kevin mccarthy oh, no. justifying his trip to mar-a-lago by saying three words that nobody has ever said about donald trump. he s not eating. now all i can say no! is this: if kevin mccarthy s job was to go down to mar-a-lago to get donald eating again, well, he did a hell of a job. yeah. because that ain t been a problem since. wasn t really a problem before. you know, maybe if he said, i got to go down to mar-a-lago because donald is cheating on his wind sprints we d believe that. but he s not eating, i don t believe it,
lawsuit accused of spreading election lies. and that was just the beginning. two voting tech companies have filtd defamation suits against fox news and other networks and a series of blockbuster books continue to reveal what really happened during trump s final days in the white house. number two, the facebook reckoning. a whistleblower was heard around the world, first through the facebook files. a series of wall street journal files based on leaks from inside facebook. then the source, frances haugen stepped forward. i believe facebook s products harm children, stoke division and weaken our democracy. the company s leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram saver but won t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. haugen alleged the company s own research showed its platforms can be toxic for children and society writ large. but with the company failing to take action, the ceo mark
inside facebook. and then frances haugen stepped forward. 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 but won t make the necessary changes because they have put profits before people. she alleged that the company s own research showed its platforms can be toxic for children and society at large. but the company failed to take action. mark zuckerberg pushed back saying many of the claims didn t make sense. anti-social media was a through line for the entire year. bringing us to the number one media story of 2021. the vaccine disinformation divide. reliable info about covid-19 vaccines helped people get vaxed and protected. but anti-vax lies and distortions went viral from facebook to fox, in ways that
it follows them into their bedrooms. the last thing they see before they go to bed is someone being cruel or the first thing they see in the morning is someone being cruel to them. kids are learning their own friends, people who care about them are cruel to them. i would like to emphasize one of the documents on problematic use examined the rates of problematic use by age and that peaked with 14-year-olds, it s just like cigarettes. teenagers don t have good self-regulation. they say explicitly i feel bad when i use instagram and yet i can t stop. you can hear there why she is an absolute nightmare for facebook, and on top of all of that, she s got thousands of their internal documents, and she was with the company until as recently as may. the company facebook is pushing back very very hard putting out a statement in the past hour. i ll read you some of that. they re really trying to down play this whistleblower, the work she did. they say she worked for the company for two years, n
teenager having a bad experience on instagram is too many, and i can tell you that the hundreds of people at facebook who actually do work on child safety, this former employee does not, did not. but those who work on child safety and work with dozens of external academics and child safety experts, this is our top priority. and are not only are we doing this research and asking the hard questions, we are also using that research to inform the way we build our products. have you found reside that girls say it increases suicidal tendencies, any research, have you seen that? if i can finish, some of the tools we built. we connect them, if somebody s searching for eating disorder related terms, we connect them with wellness resources. we give them tools to prevent bullying and harassment. that s the result of us asking these hard questions and doing this research, and we re going to continue to do it. let me tell you what frances