side effect is diarrhea, sometimes severe. if it s severe, stop taking linzess and call your doctor right away. other side effects include gas, stomach area pain, and swelling. could your story also be about ibs-c? talk to your doctor and say yess to linzess. good morning, everyone. it s tuesday, october 26. it s 5:00 a.m. here in new york. thanks so much for getting an early start with us. i m laura jarrett. i m christine romans. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. no regrets. the head of facebook mark zuckerberg defiant after thousands of pages of leaked documents show his company putting growth and profits over safety and decency.
carol started off by liking a few popular conservative facebook pages like fox news, donald trump, and melania trump. but quickly facebook began dragging her down a rabbit hole of misinformation. after only two days two days, facebook recommended carol follow a qanon page and a few date later it suggested she follow another. this experiment was never meant to be made public, but details about it were included in documents leaked by facebook whistleblower frances haugen who said the company is not doing enough to crackdown on conspiracy theories and online hate. and they know algorithmic based ranking keeps you on their sites longer. you have longer sessions. you show up more often, and that makes them more money. reporter: by week three r of the experiment, carol s feed had become, quote, a constant flow of misleading and polarizing content according to the facebook employee who is running the account. a lot of us spend way too much
important contribution to understanding this incredibly important problem that we ve ever had. reporter: clearly frances haugen whistleblower is hitting a nerve. she has the attention of lawmakers on both sides of the atlantic. of course, the question now is what will politicians do, will they vote to regulate facebook? christine, laura. donie, thank you. facebook reminded investors it is a money making machine. it posted a profit of $9.2 billion in the third quarter and $29 billion in revenue despite scrutiny over its data and privacy. the number of people using facebook s family of apps, that s facebook, what s app, instagram, that grew 12% year over year. nearly 3.6 billion people. the business has chugged along despite outcry from regulators and the public. it s now closed up over 1% monday. it s 20% higher so far this year. but important perspective here. you can see the shares are down 15% from the high earlier this
you know, human trafficking issue goes, the company says it is also working with the international organizations to sort of learn about how it can best handle this issue and educate people on its platforms who might fall victim. so facebook has to change, right? facebook has to change. congress, lawmakers, regulators, people inside facebook, consumers of facebook say it has to change. what does that look like? it s a good question. i think what these documents really show is that even when the company is made aware of its own problems, it can really struggle to fix them. and facebook has talked about how it spent $13 billion, it he s tens of thousands of people working on this issue. but what the whistleblower has said, it may not matter how much is already spent. what does it need to spend in order to address these issues. it s running ads saying it wants to have this conversation, and it wants or at least it s open to the idea that changes are needed. what are you hearing in
transphobic takes. to the theranoransgender com, i am more than willing to give you an audience. you will not summon me. i am not bending to anybody s demands. chappelle also denies reports that he refused to speak with transgender netflix employees who staged a walkout last week. scientists found clues to ancient life inside a ruby that s 2.5 billion years old. researchers looking for gemstones in greenland discovered, surprise, locked in one of them a pure form of carbon that they believe may be the remains of ancient microbial life. mind blowing. profits over people. that s the bottom line from a trochl of leaked documents that showed facebook maximized engagement at all costs and delaying efforts to fight misinformation and radicalization. thousands of documents pulling back the curtain on the company s role kindling the capitol insurrection, in flaming violence overseas, while doing