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Tens of thousands of internal documents, and that research, she says, shows facebook needs to hit the reset button. they re paying for their profits right now with our safety. reporter: former facebook employee frances haugen told senators facebook is looking to hook kids early, hoping they ll also bring their parents online. but she says the company s own research shows its instagram platform can be harmful to teens, even addictive, especially for some girls. 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. reporter: she blamed the yof app for directing kids from healthy eating recipes to anorexia, prompting suicidal thoughts and making bullying worse. kids who are bullied on instagram, the bullying follows them home. it follows them into their bedrooms. the last thing they see before going to bed at night is someone being cruel to them. mark zuckerberg s new policy is no apo
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reporter: haugen says c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is facebook s ultimate decider. mark hold a very unique role in the tech industry. there are no similarly powerful companies as unilaterally controlled. reporter: why is mark zuckerberg right now? i work with mark zuckerberg closely. i can tell you he cares a lot about these issues. he always has. reporter: monika bickert is a facebook vice president. does the buck stop with you, or does the buck stop with mark zuckerberg? everybody who is working on these issues at facebook, starting with mark, but continuing down to anybody on these safety teams, cares about these issues. reporter: tonight, facebook is pushing back at haugen, saying she was not involved with company decision making and called the tens of thousands of pages of documents she turned over stolen. we are doing the research exactly because we care about safety. if one teen on instagram is having a bad experience, we need to do better. if you were a member of th
The scathing testimony from a former facebook employee that had senators describing the social media giant as morally bankrupt. frances haugen went before congress today to tell lawmakers the company has a simple motive maximize profits no matter the cost, something she first told 60 minutes. republicans and democrats were united in their outrage as haugen described how teens get hocked on instagram and are subjected to nonstop bullying. tonight the company is responding and taking aim at haugen. but senators want to hear directly from founder mark zuckerberg, demanding that he answer their questions. cbs kris van cleave is following all of this and joins us from the capitol. good evening, kris. reporter: norah, no word yet or when if the committee will call mark zuckerberg, but tonight, facebook is calling out the whistleblower at the center of all of this, saying she was an employee for less than two years, and had limited access to top executives. but she left the company with