go well beyond youtube. as you say, videos from youtube get shared all over the place. on facebook, on websites. i mean, the big question is how effective will they actually follow through with this policy? will youtube actually live up to their word? i should mention a spokesperson for the company told us that since that employee we spoke to there in that piece, since they worked for the company a few years ago, that youtube says it sort of gotten its act together a bit more on vaccine misinformation. they brought in new rules, new changes to their algorithms. but all that being said, i mean, it is pretty stunning, anderson, that we are almost two years into this pan demmic and it's only now the company is putting in a widespread ban on the ridiculous claim that the vaccine have microchips in them. >> donie o'sullivan, appreciate it. thanks. we'll be right back. wealth is your first big investment. worth is a partner to help share the load. wealth is saving a little extra. worth is knowing it's never too la

we look at the youtube rabbit holes. and a productive point of view about the delusions that fueled the big lie. >>> first, what is facebook doing to us? maybe the better question is phrased this way, what are we doing to each other with the tools, with the weapons facebook is providing? that is going to be a big theme this coming week as a consortium you of news outlets come out with stories based observe internal facebook reports and discussions. these are just a few of the participating news outfits, cnn, ap, "the times," the atlantic, bloomberg, and the ap said it's coming out monday, kicking off what axios called a week-long facebook flood. but all we're we are seeing reports like this one on the top page of "the washington post" this morning looking at reactions signed facebook after january 6th. the stories are based in part on the documents that frances haugen smuggled out of facebook. she handed over evidence to the sec alleging facebook had been misleading investors and the public. now redacted versions of thos

the effects of this go beyond youtube and youtube's inaction of this go well beyond youtube. videos get shared on facebook and websites. the big question is howf how effective will they follow throw? a spokesperson for the company said since that employee, we spoke in that piece since they work for the company a few years ago, youtube says it got its act together more on vaccine misinformation. they brought in new rules and changes to the algorithms but that being said, it's pretty stunning anderson that we're almost two years into this pandemic and it's only now the company is putting in a wide spread ban on the ridiculous claim that the vaccines have micro chips in them. >> appreciate it. thanks. we'll be right back. wealth is saving a little extra. worth is knowing it's never too late to start - or too early. ♪ ♪ wealth helps you retire. worth is knowing why. ♪ ♪ principal. for all it's worth. you're driving innovation. you're racing to the cloud. you need to do it securely. that's why palo alto networks developed prisma cloud - an integrated platform that secures

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>> youtube has control of what goes on the trending page. the fact that may made money through that monetization is disgusting. when i realized the entire point is to stop speak, it's psychological warfare as children to stop us from advocating what we believe in. >> no more silence. >> reporter: the activism of parkland students did attract attention a. lot of it. what started as small protests snowballed into a national youth-led movement for gun reform. how soon did you start to get death threats after you started out? >> basically immediately, they said you will be doa. there were photos of me having my head cut off by isis. there were people that showed up with guns at your protests. they would follow us to the hotel with their gun in their hand. >> what did this do to your family is? >> it's been incredibly terrorizing. a sheriff's office call said is someone holding a gun to your head demanding $100,000? we got a call about it and the entire s.w.a.t. team for the count whycy on the front lawn with police helicopters around and snipers

i love youtube as a platform and i use it all the time. we have seen great things come from them, but they also have the power to do just as much damage. >> misinformation packaged into youtube content has caused real harm, and social media companies are facing questions about how conspiracy theories spread on their platforms. as it turns out it's baked into the very dna of how they were created and how they turn a profit. with hyaluronic acid plus caffeine. apply with the triple bead roller. it visibly replumps eye wrinkles and brightens dark circles. new revitalift eye serum by l'oreal paris. all denny's pancakes are made to order with fresh buttermilk. but this month's spotlight stack feels like fall. and is the pumpkin-iest pecan pie drizzliest and most gram-worthy of them all. new! pumpkin pecan pancakes. this month's spotlight stack. see you at dennys ♪ ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ [doorbell] ♪ ♪ [doorbell] all the delivery. no delivery fees. dashpass. moving is a handful. no kidding! fortunately, xfinity makes moving easy. easy? -ea

they told other people this is a special youtube thing, youtube is paying for and carlos said that in writing and that wasn't true. they're trying to get goldman to invest and i think they want someone to say look how great our relationship is with youtube. ultimately they post rid yos to the website like you could or i could. they put somebody, impersonate a youtube executive to make themselves look good. they also have posters up all around new york, particularly near ad agencies with quotes "the fastest showing show on youtube" that is also not the case. >> what's the bigger picture, ben, someone faking it 'til they make it or does this cross a different line? >> when you're lying to investors -- lying to advertisers sadly perhaps i think is fairly common. perhaps i don't know, i don't honestly understand why the advertising industry lets people get away with it. i think they're embarrassed to tell their bosses they've been fueled and their clients, but lying to investors is securities fraud, it's different. so the impersonation is a textbook case of securities fraud. ozy's argumen

>> youtube absolutely has control over what goes on their trending page. the fact that they made money from that through the monetization of that hatred is disgusting. but i realize the entire point of those things is to stop me from speaking. it's psychological warfare with us as children to stop us from advocating for what we believe in. >> the activism of parkland students did attract attention, a lot of it. and what started as small protests snowballed into a national youth-led movement for gun reform. how soon did you start to get death threats after you started speaking out? >> basically immediately. there were people that sent letters that said, f with the nra and you'll be doa. there were photos that were sent of me having my head cut off by isis. there were people that showed up with guns at our protests. they would follow us to our hotel with their gun in their hand. >> what did all this do to your family? how did it affect them? >> it's been incredibly traumatizing for them. i got a call from some random number that was the sheriff's office. the

let me put up a slide on the screen which came from one of your youtube presentations in which you say the way halrvard portrays asian americans reminds me of jewish quotas from my grandfather's day and it makes me feel really iky. explain. >> yeah, if you read the study in the harvard lawsuit, you'll see most of the discrimination that's going on is against asian people. and i don't see them as a privileged group. but it makes me very uncomfortable they're getting the bulk of this. >> if you had got to m.i.t., did you intend to get into this subject area? >> no, of course not, this was never going to come up during my vicht to m.i.t. >> from "newsweek," it entails treating members of a group rather than as individuals repeating the mistake that made possible the atrocities of the 20th century. et cetera, et cetera. explain. >> yeah. so viewing human beings as members of a group, rather than as individuals for the inherent dignity has a very terrible history in this country and in other countries. and i don't think we should be repeating that history. >> what is it that you said in the

that was the message today from social media companies, tiktok and snapchat and youtube testifying on capitol hill. this comes amid the massive leak of documents from inside facebook. ones that suggest the company knew that its platforms were being used for human trafficking and spreading extremism and inciting violence. as cnn's donie o'sullivan reports, lawmakers have a long list of concerns about all of these social media empires are impacting young people. >> tic cook, snapchat and youtube on the hot seats on capitol hill. >> why do you need all of this personal data, especially on our children? >> reporter: the platform's questioned about how kids use social media, how they are affected by it and what the companies to do to protect teenagers of america. it's the first time tiktok and snapchat have been called before congress. they were grilled about contact their app suggests to kids. >> i'm sure the articles about the porn stars were accurate and fact checked and the tips on why you shouldn't go to bars alone are accurate and fact check bud that's not my question. and this is ab

justin bieber was the first of the youtube kids. he was using the new tools of the internet to really do an end run around the traditional industry. ♪ and i was like baby baby baby oh ♪ ♪ like baby baby baby no ♪ >> the 2000s, the music industry was undergoing a massive shift with the technological change and the fact that the price of music had effectively been ground down to zero. >> i'm standing outside where i used to buy my cds, a store shut down as you can tell. like so many other music stores across the country. >> by the end of the decade, the music business was falling off a cliff. it seemed like all of it was gone, reduced to rubble. >> the shuttering this weekend of virgin's last two stores in manhattan and hollywood marks the death of a once-booming chain, and another nail in the coffin of the music cd. >> by the mid-2000s, music labels realized that youtube, myspace and file sharing software was the way people were discovering new music. what do you do? you get all of the people you've heard online together in o

twitter has run similar surveys, as has youtube. all these companies know that eventually the attention will turn to them, and there's a way for them right now to get ahead of it. >> how? how do they get ahead of it? >> they can release their own research. they can take the opposite course of what facebook has been. facebook has tried to discredit their own researchers which i think is a shame because they really take the time to hire some of the best data scientists in the world. these are people that come out of stanford, harvard, yale, they've got an amazing background and resume in conducting this kind of research. why not elevate what they've done and say look how hard we've tried to look at this problem. let's make it open to anyone. let's make it an academic resource and other platforms can follow suit. there are discussions in some of these tech companies of doing exactly that. and really posing the very transparent alternative to how facebook has gone about things. >> lawmakers have certainly done a good job bringing attent

and as i mentioned, he's been silenced on youtube. his lies and false propaganda are still available on other sites, of course including the largest book seller in the world, amazon. the question is why? randi stayed on the story, set out to find out. >> it's an unproven vaccine. it's just being accelerated and eliminated virtually every safety study. >> reporter: that's dr. joseph mercola spewing lies about the vaccines for covid-19 and much of it is neatly packaged in this book he co-authored "the truth about covid-19" available on amazon. for about $15, you get 226 pages full of false claims and outlandish conspiracy theories about the vaccines. # despite that, the publisher told us the book has already sold about 250,000 copies in all formats. for weeks, it's been a best-seller on amazon. likely, earning the doctor a tidy sum of money. but if it's full of misinformation, why is amazon selling it at all? long before mercola's book, the ecommerce giant had removed other books that make dangerous medical claims or peddle misinformati

needed some kind of source to seek out, and so often, they would go to social media or places like youtube. and once you input into places like youtube, right, or other social media, and let's say you enter something that is conspiratorial in nature, your feed automatically populates with more of that information. and then it just continues and continues. and so, it's not hard to understand how people have become victim to conspiracy theories, because once you've disavowed mainstream media and mainstream thinking, then you become open to whatever else is out there. >> so, what is the end game with all of this? >> well, it's an interesting question. who is benefiting from all of this? and i don't know that people who espouse conspiracy theories or believe conspiracy theories quite understand this, but there are people who are benefiting financially, exponentially, and those are social media companies. you know, the longer you stay on these platforms, on these services, they -- that's the way they make money. and so, up until very recently, until people started to become deplatformed, until

videos of "american idol" and end up watching youtube videos of dr. pimple popper three hours later. >> we've all been there, haven't we? but on this issue of the algorithms which i find fa nating, the facebook whistleblower highlighted the issue of what's happening with teens and teen girls on instagram, and lindsey krause wrote an op-ed in the "new york times" which makes the point you're making here, to get your thoughts on this a little bit here, be she writes this, for girls in america taking in content that seems to make you hate your body is an adolescent right of passage. the medium changes but the ritual stays the same. before american girls confidence was xhods fide by instagram it was at the whim of magazines. at the core of marketing the message endures you are riddled with flaws and imperfections and we will tell you what to buy and do to fix yourself. for me as a teenage girl it was cosmo and 17. how different is instagram? >> well, what you're talking about is a matter of scale here. it's natural for all of us to compare ourselves to ot

cnn's donie o'sullivan reports. >> reporter: tiktok, snapchat and youtube on the hot seats in capitol hill. >> why do you need all of this personal data, especially on our children? >> reporter: the platforms questioned about how kids use social media, how they are affected by and what the companies do to protect teens and children. >> they cannot trust these apps with their children. >> reporter: it's the first time tiktok has been called before congress. they were grilled about the apps. >> i'm sure the porn stars were accurate and fact checked. the tips on why you shouldn't go to bars alone are accurate and fact checked. but that's not my question. this is about whether it's appropriate for children ages 13 and up as you certified. >> absolutely. and senator, i think this is an area where we are constantly evolving. if there are instances where these publishers are surfacing content to an age cohort this is that is inappropriate, they will be removed. >> reporter: one big message, we're not facebook. >> snapchat is different. snapchat was build as an antidote to social media. >> ou

i think probably not a enough scrutiny is on youtube. mark gets a lot of scrutiny and this is the biggest and why people are paying attention to it and it's the most impactful but i think youtube and stuff going on there should probably be looked at in a stronger way, in conjunction with facebook, because they're very similar sets of issues. i think obviously you have to look at amazon and marketplace issues. overall you have to look at the data issues and privacy issues. we don't have a privacy bill in this country that's national. we have them in certain states. there are all kinds of things, transparency. there was just a story yesterday in "the post" about how much facebook knew about anti-vax stuff, that kind of stuff. >> a lot of it is quite scary. are you dressling up for halloween, kara, maybe be mark zuckerberg? >> no, i don't. i dress up as a broadcaster. >> scarier at your mic. thank you very much for coming on. >>> next, we go back to my home state of maryland. they're looking at the great city of baltimore where there will s

he's not on youtube. he's gone dark so i'm sure there's some issues going on in his head and he he is certainly sleeping with one eye open. >> when people are on the run, i mean, psychologically, what kind of -- i mean do they change? what does it -- what does it do to somebody? >> well, i mean, human instincts turn into animal instincts and that's certainly the case here. i mean, he is off the grid. he is not used to playing fugitive, i would say. or he is not a career criminal and again i don't think he planned this. he doesn't have the funding to go jump on an airplane. he certainly didn't do that. his picture is coast to coast. i don't think he is on a boat sitting in cuba. he's local. he's local. you know, he's not like a whitey bulger as we spoke about recently. so he doesn't have that type of communication or funding or -- or those resources. so he's local. is somebody helping him? possibly. we, you know, i got a pretty good feeling his family is. his mom, dad, certainly know, you know, couple week

. >> reporter: companies like youtube and facebook have been criticized for allowing covid-19 misinformation to spread on their platforms. youtube says it has banned misleading videos about any vaccine and facebook says it prohibits misinformation about the covid vaccine. but many of her husband's posts still remain on facebook. how did it feel to watch the man you married, the man you love, go down this rabbit hole? >> it was sad. it was really sad. but -- and i thought, i got to pull him out of this. but you can't. it's not something that i think -- it's got to be up to that person. >> reporter: what's your message to those people that -- >> the makers of those? >> reporter: yeah, the makers, the people who are pushing this disinformation. >> get a life and just -- you know, you guys just need to stop this nonsense because it's harming people. it's actually harming people. >> reporter: and john, we learned this week from the leaked facebook documents that companies like facebook don't really have as much of a handle on covid misinformation as they might project publicly. but important to p

and until these companies -- facebook, youtube -- until they are forced in a court, you know, through the removal of their protection from liability, they're not -- they're going to just keep doing the same thing. you know? the only thing that you're going to get is that kind of response. and they'll do enough to -- okay, we're going to take this down, only to have this stuff return. so when -- if they get sued by not just me but others that have had this same issue, then they'll -- that's when it'll stop. but congress has got to make that happen. >> well, and you're making it happen by making a difference and fighting for it for -- for so many and, of course, for allison. thank you so much, andy. >> thank you, erin. thanks for having me on the program. >> i'm grateful to have you. >>> and next, for months, they've resisted getting the covid vaccine. but that has all changed because of one group. what group and why? >>> plus, why are americans now quitting their jobs at a record pace? (judith) in this market, you'll find fisher investments is different than other money managers. (othe

the goldman sachs, youtube executive on the call with goldman sachs, suggested there was more to it. >> that was the beginning. i thought the headband, jeff horowitz was wearing his headband in every video. >> i think that's the new thing you were supposed to do but i can't pull it off. >> i think you were pulling it off fine. i know carlos watson and everyone seems to know carl carlos watson. do you believe this is actual fraud, or was it somebody boasting, trying to be a star by boasting the numbers up like many people do? >> i can't suggest his motive, i think his partners at times lied to their employees, lied to their advertisers, and certainly an order of magnitude beyond the kind of puffery that's sort of common in media and let's say business forever, but really to a much, much more extreme degree. >> were they attempting to, you know, credibility by association, by booking the dr. anthony faucis of the world? i think you were on the show once. by booking well-known people, is it like saddling up to success and pretending to be successful? >> the audience that really ate ozy

. >> on the idea that earth was flat, he admitted that he went down a youtube rabbit hole and apologized to science teachers. having access to him, how persuadable do you think he is to listen to someone like kareem abdul jabbar. >> i think he's agreeable but he needs acid tests. the head of instagram told mekhi reirving had more engagement than donald trump when he was allowed on. the head of instagram said it is good for leaders to have country view points and fans attach themselves. the next paragraph in my book has a teenager saying, i love all of kyrie's instagram posts, even the weird ones. >> playing a sound bite from draymond green. >> we are dealing with something that to me feels like a political war when you are talking about vaccinated or not vaccinated. that goes against everything stands for. i'm not in any position to go tell him what he should or should not be doing. >> draymond, a hugely influential player. in this era of player empowerment, how do they manage this? >> we are talking about a war on personal freedom and public health. these guys are sweating on each other

used my war techniques and the steve irwin came out in me a little built, you know, steve irwin before youtube, when you watched steve irwin videos, there was no rewind unless you wanted to rewind the tape. so fast-forward in the situation, and i treated him like a hungry hippo mouth. >> that was absolutely hungry hippo all day long. >> you said your military training. how did the military help you in this situation? dealing with the adrenaline? >> when i say military, i'm not saying train like actually attack or apprehend alligators, but to be under pressure and not panic and approach the situation and finish the task and eliminate the threat so you can make the environment around you safe. that's kind of what i did in afghanistan with my other veterans, and i'm proud i served this country and i hope the country is happy for me serving. i've got severn daughters. they embrace me -- >> seven daughters. >> yeah. >> an alligator is the least of your problem with seven daughters. i know you know this is dangerous stuff and you got to be careful. next time, god willing, just call the wildlife cops

though he was in trouble and getting death threats, he remained define and taunted his enemies on youtube. he posted this song four weeks before he was found stabbed and bludgeoned to death in a suburban virginia park. a group of ms members loyal to christian accused demaris of being the person who lured him to his death. to avenge his murder, they wanted demaris to pay with her life. so when she was brought here, there were people waiting for her. >> yeah. when she arrived, there were ten members of a local click of ms 13 waiting for her. >> do you think that all ten of those people knew that she was going to be killed that day? >> i think some of the other people were less involved. they thought they were coming here to rough her up. but i don't think they actually knew that she would be killed. >> in broad daylight, demaris was taken off trail and led deep into the woods. what unfolded there was recorded on a cell phone by her assailants and still images from the video were later released to the public. and so they are initially interrogating her. >> yeah. they want to know what her ro

. >> did we somehow click on the youtube link? >> it is pretty typical in this senate race. this is a big crowded competitive primary for the ohio senate seat. rob portman is the retiring republican senator, a moderate sounding conservative, really out of step with the party as it currently is. almost every candidate running to replace him, to succeed him is using not rob portman as a model but donald trump. former statewide elected official. you have the former state chair of the republican party moving toward trump. they are all moving toward trump. j.d. vance, the author, on fox news getting into the cultural issues. it is not just the rhetoric of 2020, it is touching on the cultural touchstones. it is interesting to note there is one candidate, a republican running for this seat, state senator matt dolan who is running a different race. he is not anti-trump but a post-trump republican. he is out there saying we need to leave trump behind. the 2020 was not stolen. we need to move beyond the lies. and he calls them lies from his fellow republicans. the big issue for him is

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>> instagram, facebook, youtube videos. >> did you ever look at sexual stuff? >> yeah, a few times. just normal like pornography and things like that. >> blake's curiosity wasn't unusual. by the time they turn 15, more than half of teens, the vast majority of them boys, have looked up pornography online. but two years ago when blake was 14, his exploration went a step further. using his cell phone, he took four pictures of his genitals and texted them to a girl he knew. what provoked you to want to send pictures of yourself to her? >> i guess i wanted her to send pictures after i did. i kind of regretted it right after i sent the pictures. like, i don't know why, i shouldn't have done that. that was like way too far. >> do you know why he may have sent them? >> from what we can piece together, it sounds like a stupid impulse. >> blake didn't have a lot of experience with girls. i think he may have had a crush on her with that awkwardness, i suppose, and didn't know how to go about showing that. >> adolescence is a confusing time. raging hormones give way to flirting, dating, and sex

this comes from youtube, the democrats should most fear a republican other than trump winning in 2024. eric, very interesting assessment. that was not one of my choices. but the question i guess i could ask is could that other candidate whoever he or she may be, engender people in a losing effort in 2020. go to smerconish.com and answer the question. which should worry democrats more that donald trump should steal the election or win it outright? clyburn said it's the former, not the latter. >>> up ahead, to fund the social spending bill, the biden administration wants the irs to give data on accounts worth more than $600. is that really going to help to catch wealthy scoff laws or just on americans? >>> and a firestorm at yale drama over chicken and apple pie. a member asked him to apologize because his words had triggered several of his classmates. when he did, the administrators sent out an email condemning his racist and pejorative language and warned it could affect his future in the profession. trent colbert who sent the invitation is here to tell his story. dove men, 48h freshn

but just this year alone, youtube became number one, facebook close second, just by 1%. the problem is this -- social media, american companies, are actually governed by algorithms so they determine news now distributed over social media platforms. the news world largest distributor of news is facebook. how they distribute the news is governed by ail glgorithms with terms that are essentially divided -- this is from research, spreads lies laced with anger and hate faster and further than fact. what that does is divides society and radicalizes if you're a user. if you say a lie a million times, it becomes a fact. when we've seen -- and you have seen me say this repeatedly for five years now, when you don't have facts, you can't have truth. when you don't have truth, you don't have trust. when you don't have this, you can't have a shared reality, you can't have democracy or any kind of human meaningful interaction to solve the existential problems we face, coronavirus or climate change. >> it must hurt substantially when you have those lies being promulgated by the preside

youtube. that's tool. the lincoln project shot themselves in the foot. stupid move. well, brynn, that's the survey question. let me react, it should have been way over the top so it was clear it was sat satire. you just heard there's an incident related to the charlottesville incident. you've got to do this to make it work politically. go to my que question @smerconish.com. now you're equipped to answer -- whose campaign did the lincoln project tiki torch stunt help most? did it help mcauliffe, youngkin? >>> up ahead, "the wall street journal" was hammered for publishing donald trump's letter. moving fore, it's going to be a problem for journalists, how do you cover donald trump? >>> plus is the anti-race movement in the country so strident it's actually hurting people it's supposed to be helping, that's what the columbia professor wrote in his new book "woke racism" and he's here to explain. managing type 2 diabetes? on it. -on it. on it, with jardiance. meet the people who are managing type 2 diabetes and heart risk with jardiance. jardiance is a once-daily pill th

buttar has been kicked off youtube, facebook, instagram. that's all good. why is he still out there on twitter and able to use that platform to tell all of his followers where they can find the rest of this nonsense? >> reporter: we asked twitter directly that question. apparently he has had some of his posts removed if he wanted to stay on twitter, which he did. but he remains there, don. 88,000 followers. twitter just tells us in general they are trying to improve their covid-19 misinformation enforcement and that they've renewed some prominent disinformers, but not this guy. >> drew, are you telling me there is nothing a medical board can do to take away his license or put some sort of warning on his credentials. >> reporter: i'm telling you there's nothing that the north carolina medical board is doing and the problem with these medical boards, they are really, really dealing with the past. built upon the premise that a patient who is harmed comes to the medical board with a complaint against a doctor who saw them. they are not geared up for these socia

while i will note youtube just recently banned all of it from their platform. and we also know that the violent content exists. so he can say what he wants, that he set out to have a product like this, i doubt it. but the truth is he set out to make a ton of money. and they've made -- they are now worth over a trillion dollars. and while he's sitting on his sailboat writing this post there are kids that are basically getting hooked on their product. and one thing we learned from my antitrust hearing, every quarter they make 51 bucks off of you, don lemon. every quarter they make $51 off of every american that's a user. and i just think enough is enough. privacy laws, they've stopped them as well as these other platforms. we haven't updated our competition policy. innovation could help us here. but they are the big bullies on the block, and i think this whistleblower, frances haugen, is finally going to be the tipping point. >> you questioned frances haugen over the spread of misinformation surrounding the 2020 election. i want to play it. >> on "60 minutes" you

so they'll g o to sources like youtube or other social media outlets. they'll plug in some information, and their feeds will instantly populate with like information. so they will just continue to go down that rabbit hole of misinformation because that's what their feed is populating, is being populated with. >> right. and as part of this episode, you spoke to one qanon conspiracy theory believer. that has got to be such a fascinating discussion. take us inside his thinking, how does his view about what's happening in our country right now affect things, do you think? >> well, we were in touch with him just today, and he said that he believes that people are still as fervent in believing in these conspiracy theories. and let's keep in mind that, look, we are just going through a global pandemic, a time of great unpredictability. there is still a lot of confusion. the erosion of trust in government has become quite pervasive. in the last few years. and they actually believe that because so many who they believe speak candidly about things are being depla

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if lawmakers want to set down rules for us and for tiktok and for youtube and twitter about exactly how young people should operate online, we'll of course abide by the law, and i think it's right that this is a subject of great bipartisan interest and discussion, because there is nothing more important than any of us than our kids. i think, by the way, regulation would be useful in many, many areas, too. >> let me ask another specific question on that. i have specifics because i think it's important. do you support legislation allowing regulators access to these algorithms that you've been talking about, access to facebook algorithms, the ones they use to amplify content to users? should regulators have access to those algorithms? >> i think broadly the answer is yes. we need greater transparency so the systems we have in place, as i alluded to earlier, including not only the 40,000 people we employ on this but also the multi-billion-dollar investments we've made into algorithm systems, machine learning systems, they should be held to account if necessary by regulation, so people can m

go to my facebook page, youtube. wherever you find me. i'll read responses. kathryn, twitter, smerconish, if the public is getting that angry perhaps the school board members should get off their high horses and listen to the public they are elected to represent. no, joseph, they shouldn't listen to the nastiest people that come out. unfortunately, the loud voices, the unruly ones, this is a much bigger part of the country generally are drowning out the sanity. the sane folks aren't the ones that come out, they're the ones at home because they're putting the kids to bed and working and doing other things. it's the fringes who are overly represented. and no, i don't want them calling all the shots. they should be represented but not calling all the shots. >>> up ahead, the latest jobses report is bad news for the biden administration but also confusing. why is the number of unfilled jobs higher than the number of unemployed americans. a surprising answer is coming up which leads me to this week's survey question, go to my survey question @smerconish.com. and a

we'll often see websites even very big websites like facebook, twitter sometimes, youtube, go down for a few minutes. a few seconds. but we are going into about the third hour of this now. i think it was just before noon eastern time here in the united states where we first started seeing the reports. the short answer to the question is we don't know at the moment what has taken -- what has caused this. people are looking into it. but it certainly is very, very unusual for the site to be down that long. and as you mentioned, this of course all coming a day after facebook whistle-blower went public on "60 minutes" and the day before that whistle-blower is going to testify before congress. and a lot happening at the facebook headquarters at the moment. >> and is certainly sets up our conversation as we talk about the breadth of the users and the number of people who depend upon, rely upon these platforms, it is big driven home today. thank you so much. more on this now, the revelations from the whistle-blower, her name is francis haugen. and she's accusing the social media company knowin

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not just with facebook but every platform that gives you recommendations and algorithms, it could be youtube or tiktok. now imagine your stadium without building codes. they would not be safe. would the stairs fall down or everything collapse? we need the same kind of response where we can have a regulatory body. kind of like the one that provides us building codes or fda, sort of bring regulations in place to protect people and giving people the base level of safety which they are not getting today. >> we can't afford bolands. we see this every time security industry comes up with a new product that has to be policed. it's very hard and it's a lot easier to find people who understand trading and algorithmics and software. can you do this? it's going to take a long time on the business side for a long time. >> it's going to be hard, these are complex problems with new technology that didn't exist when you and i growing up. this is brand new stuff. we have a lot of researchers and world class phds can take data in a privacy safe way. they can study these issues and inform policies and they ca

everything is designed to get us to want to keep interacting so we don't go off and watch youtube or go off and watch cnn. it is designed intentionally to do that. now, it wasn't designed for, like, public health emergencies or to spread vaccine misinformation or hate speech or any of that. it was designed to keep you engaging with your friends and family about babies and puppies and all the good things in life. the problem is humans are more complex than that. we interact in all these different ways. comments, though, are something that a lot of the news coverage has ignored for a long time. we tend to focus on the big post, the video or the image or the text or the facebook group that is putting something out. and we don't realize that there is always conversation going on beneath these posts. and, remember, you can't turn off comments on facebook. i probably use facebook more if i could turn off comments on particular posts. >> and that's where some of the most heated conversations -- right. that's where you see some of the most heated conversations and the most heated rhetoric an

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he's been kicked off youtube, facebook, instagram. that's all good. why is he still out there on twitter able to use that platform to tell his followers where they can find the rest of this nonsense? >> he has had some of his posts removed, but he remains there, don. 88,000 followers. twitter tells us in general they are trying to improve their covid-19 misinformation enforcement, and that they renewed some prominent disin -- removed some prominent disinformers. but not this guy. >> drew, are you telling me that there is nothing a medical board can do to take away his license or put a warning on his credentials? >> there's nothing that the north carolina medical board is doing. and the problem is these medical boards, don, they are really, really dealing with the past. they are from the 20th century, built upon the premise that a patient who is harm -- they are not geared up for these social media doctors giving advice to patients they don't even know over the internet or through facebook. and are perhaps giving them such bad information that they're

a lot of the content was on twitter and youtube, too. specifically, here is a statement from the company spokesperson. he said the notion that the january 6th insurrection would not have happened but for facebook is absurd. the former president pushed a narrative that the election was stolen including in person a short distance from the capitol building that day. the responsibility for the violence lies with those who attacked our capitol and those who encouraged them. he says facebook has a long track record of cooperation with law enforcement including the agencies responsible for addressing threats of domestic terrorism. but anderson, what's really remarkable and really is insightful about all of this is that test account facebook set up as a 41-year-old conservative mom living in north carolina. in the summer of 2019, like the few conservative pages on facebook, within a week, was being dragged down a qanon rabbit hole and within three weeks, was being recommended pages about the 3%er militia. >> fascinating. donie o'sullivan, apprec

they had fake videos all over the place, on youtube. you know, i imagine they have been using many of these other same platforms in the same way. they went on there pretending to be americans and also ex-filtrating content for themselves as well. we focused on cambridge analytica, but we haven't focused on the research agency in st. petersburg, in russia, was dinoing as well. the whistle-blower talked about the danger of the algorithms, not just the content, and they have been able to target americans in the same way. but what they're doing is repackaging the information, the posting that americans have put on facebook and others have as well. they exploited that platform. >> want to ask you about the title of your book, which is "there's nothing for you here," though it comes from a conversation with your father, and it is what he said, there is nothing for you here pet, which i love. tell me about that conversation, and how it instructs your view of what's happening in the united states right now. >> well, that conversation came just