social media company be any different, chris cuomo? i don t think it should. they say well, you know, this is, if you build it they will come platform. it took awhile for people to catch up with that because the word platform is new to us. but if you think of them as the stadium, now it all becomes very clear. well, the stadium, they don t control the game but they control the venue. and there are rules and they indeed have rules. they can kick people out. decide who they want to come in. they can tell people how they dress. they can tell people where to sit in a stadium. that s exactly where they can. my concern is how do you enforce it, don? i think that you ll get laws. i don t think the right fringe they just want to sensor us, the data is too obvious. they kill it on social media. they get the most traction, they have the most sites with the most views not being secensored. the idea of how do you do it? they have a hard enough time with securities and because they
events. the house republicans deny any involvement and nbc news has not independently confirmed. two of the republicans, madison cawthorn and mo brooks did speak and they said it was supposed to be a peaceful rally, that didn t stop mo brooks from saying he wore body armor to the event for his safety and we know definitively, donald trump has not and seemingly cannot accept that he lost the election. that s been true from the very minute joe biden was declared the winner last november and since then trump shaped his cult of personality around that single grievance. it s the only thing he seems to care about. it s all he ever talks about. and everything, i mean, everything that has happened between november 3rd and january 6th was centered around his desperation to undo that one fact that he cannot live with, that he lost. trump was able to get his minions in congress, disgraced figures like rudy giuliani and governor s mansion to do his bidding, to do whatever it took to undo
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 americans angrier and angrier. people couldn t yell at each other online so people were maybe looking for other places to do it. i want you to listen to this. this is facebook whistle blower francis that s claiming that anger is good for facebook s business and alleges a scale of the problem is much worse than the company is letting on or that the public even understands. she s on 60 minutes and here is what she said. it s own research is showing that content that is hateful, that is divisive, that polarizing, it s easier to inspire people to anger than it is to other emotions. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, peo
safer with seat belts, the government took action. and with opioids the government took action. i am pour you to do the same here. the nearly 5% drop, while ceo mark zuckerberg, $6 billion, with a b. in this span of just a few hours, that hit coincided with monday s worldwide outage for facebook and two major facebook services, instagram and whatsapp. the first domino that really set off this stretch of bad news was frances haugen. last month, she leaked thousands of internal records to the wall street journal. and those documents indicate facebook had shrugged off hard evidence showing the damage that instagram platform was doing, including its potentially toxic effect on teens, especially girls. cnn s donie o sullivan has been all over the story. donie, you ve been listening closely to the testimony, the hearing. we heard a pretty disturbing account of the social media giant that apparently is willing to grow the all costs. reporter: yeah, frances haugen, the facebo
believe this is an unsolvable problem but haugen says that s not true. i think if we had appropriate oversight or if we were formed 230 to make facebook responsible for the consequences of their intentional ranking decisions, i think they would get rid of engagement-based ranking, because it is causing teenagers to be exposed to more anorexia content. it is pulling families apart. and in places like ethiopia, it s literally fanning ethnic violence. cnn s done ie o sullivan joi us from capitol hill. haugen said that facebook should declare moral bankruptcy and ask congress for help. this was really compelling testimony. reporter: extremely compelling, and it just wrapped up, and the room behind me in the past half hour, victor. and you re right, senators on both sides of the aisle here appeared to be, i mean, frankly, gripped by what haugen had to say. have a listen. my message for mark zu zuckerberg, your time of invading our privacy, promoting toxic content, and prey