Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Testifies On Capitol Hill — Transcript

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1. 0:00oh some powerful testimony on capitol
2. 0:01hill from a facebook whistleblower she
3. 0:03says the company puts profits above
4. 0:05everything else including the safety of
5. 0:07children cbs 2's dick brennan here now
6. 0:09with more on today's testimony dick
7. 0:11maurice and christine frances haugen was
8. 0:13a facebook product manager who worked
9. 0:15there for two years before leaving in
10. 0:16may she leaked information to 60 minutes
11. 0:18claiming facebook knows how detrimental
12. 0:21their platforms forms are to young
13. 0:23people and today she made her case to
14. 0:25congress
15. 0:26but i'm here today because i believe
16. 0:27facebook's products harm children stoke
17. 0:30division and weaken our democracy
18. 0:32whistleblower francis haugen says
19. 0:34facebook knows how to make its platform
20. 0:36safe but it won't because it costs them
21. 0:38big money and she says children suffer
22. 0:41kids who are bullied on instagram the
23. 0:43bullying follows them home it follows
24. 0:45them into their bedrooms the last thing
25. 0:48they see before they go to bed at night
26. 0:49is someone being cruel to them or the
27. 0:50first thing they see in the morning is
28. 0:52someone being cruel to them haugen says
29. 0:54the sites are most troublesome for
30. 0:56teenagers and they examine what they
31. 0:57call rates of problematic use by age
32. 1:01that peaked with 14 year olds it's just
33. 1:03like cigarettes teenagers don't have
34. 1:05good self-regulation they say explicitly
35. 1:09i feel bad when i use instagram and yet
36. 1:11i can't stop
37. 1:12and haugen claims facebook's algorithms
38. 1:14can quickly lead teenagers from safe
39. 1:16subjects onto much more harmful ones all
40. 1:19the way from just something innocent
41. 1:21like healthy recipes to anorexia
42. 1:24promoting content in a statement
43. 1:26facebook said in part we don't agree
44. 1:28with her characterization on the many
45. 1:30issues she testified about the majority
46. 1:32of young people on instagram are having
47. 1:35a good experience and that is borne out
48. 1:37by the documents that were stolen
49. 1:39including
50. 1:40the instagram youth survey of about 40
51. 1:43instagram users and facebook denies the
52. 1:45site had any responsibility for the
53. 1:47january 6th attack on the capitol
54. 1:49because it allowed misinformation on the
55. 1:51election to proliferate on the site
56. 1:53responsibility for january 6 lies with
57. 1:55those who broke the law and those in
58. 1:57politics and elsewhere who incited them
59. 2:00but lawmakers on both sides of the aisle
60. 2:02were united in condemning facebook ceo
61. 2:04mark zuckerberg and vowed to enact
62. 2:06reforms
63. 2:07here's my message for mark zuckerberg
64. 2:10your time of invading our privacy
65. 2:14promoting toxic content and preying on
66. 2:16children and teens is over
67. 2:20but facebook for its part threw things
68. 2:22back onto congress saying that it's time
69. 2:24for it to act they say they should not
70. 2:27expect the industry to make societal
71. 2:29decisions that belong to legislators to
72. 2:31be continued christina marie yeah
73. 2:32waiting for the next steps thank you