indicating that facebook knows the harm that they and instagram can do but chooses to put clicks, eyeballs, and ad sales ahead of fixing the problem. the company s leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer but won t make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people. the documents i have provided to congress prove that facebook has repeatedly misled the public about what its own research reveals about the safety of children, the efficacy of its artificial-intelligence systems, and its role in spreading divisive and extreme messages. as you d imagine, this is not the company s public position. listen to what ceo mark zuckerberg told lawmakers just last march. the research that we ve seen is that using social apps to to connect with other people can have positive mental-health benefits and wellbeing benefits. like helping people feel more connected and and less lonely. mark zuckerberg talking about the research
time, didn t it? got everybody talking about the outage instead of what was being outed in congress. second, it s interesting that the outage has zuck searching for answers to do better, but he doesn t say that about anything happening in congress. not really. other than admitting congress does need to regulate social media more, he flatly rejects this central concern from the whistleblower. they have put their astronomical profits before people. now, astronomical profits before people. of course, do you believe this would make facebook different than many big companies? it s not a shocking suggestion, but it is a window into the reality that we see facebook as different from just a huge company because it doesn t make widgets. its service isn t something like even managing your money, which is very important. this is about the environment that is created almost as if it were a kind of oxygen. and the nature of it and the quality of it and how it s tested matters. now, zu
that democrats must act on their own yet intend to block the latest effort in a test vote in the senate tomorrow afternoon. they ve had plenty of time to execute the debt ceiling increase and have chosen not to do it. they need to do this. they have the time to do it. and the sooner they get about it the better. that is the minority leader of the senate. a few hours after that, president biden was asked for his response? i ll be receiving if mcconnell refuses to cooperate what happens next? quite frankly there s not many options if they re going to be that irresponsible why not much time left to do a reconciliation. i don t think they will end up being that irresponsible. i can t believe it. republicans are trying to force democrats to resort to a complicated process called reconciliation to cram raising the borrowing limit into spending bill under negotiation and remember what we re talking at here. the current debt limit, the current debt was largely racked
mr. avlon, you are first. the company is facing its first default. republicans know this could be catastrophic, but they re still refusing to blink. do they care what this could do to the country, or do you think is all about making democrats look bad? well, as mitch mcconnell said in the previous debt ceiling and crisis, this is a hostage they re willing to ransom. but that of course is a very dangerous game by its nature. here we are tricycling towards a fiscal cliff yet again. default would be disastrous not just to our economy, but the world economy because we re the world s reserve currency. we re the only major industrialized nation in the world that does this to ourselves. this is a self-inflicted crisis. we need to get rid of the debt ceiling. we ve raised the debt ceiling 31 times under republican presidents since 1980. mitch mcconnell has voted for debt ceiling increases dramatically under the debt. this is designed to pay for things the republican congress alread
high thryv! thryv? yep. i m the all-in-one management software built for small business. high thryv! ow. get a free demo at thryv.com. this is don lemon tonight. let me ask you this. do you feel a little calmer today? do you feel like there were fewer angry voices out there? well, maybe that s because facebook along with instagram and what s app were down for most of the day and you know what that did. that silenced the feedback loop that seems to be making a lot of americans angrier and angrier. people couldn t yell at each other online. so people were at least or maybe looking for other places to do it. i want you to listen to this. this is facebook whistleblower frances haugen. she is claiming that anger is good for facebook s business. and she alleges the scale of the problem is much worse than the company is letting on or than the public even understands. she s on 60 minutes and here is what she said. its own research is showing that content that is hateful, that