sheera frenkel and cecilia kang have been investigating facebook for years and they not written aboutem. you write about how so many of them have nondisclosure agreements, and we know about that. you said some of them were putting their careers at risk. even fearing reprisals. yet you've managed to give us a ringside seat on a lot of the biggest crises in facebook over the last five years. there have been quite a few. why did people speak to you? i wonder if you're a new york times journalist and you pick up the phone and say hello, do you want to chat, they would run a mile. how did you do it? i think a lot want to see change. they're not unhappy with the company per se, but they're unhappy with the decisions made by the top leaders, mark zuckerberg and... a lot of the people who talked to us weren't— a lot of the people who talked to us weren't necessarily willing and volunteering to talk to us. we had to take _ volunteering to talk to us. we had to take and — volunteering to talk to us. we had to take and take and dig, but many of those _ to take and take and dig, but many of those

sheera frenkel and cecilia kang, tojoey d'urso and to henry winter.ye. hello again. monday was another hot and sunny day for the majority of us, but there were a few storms that popped up. one or two affecting sussex and kent, there were a few storms in south wales for a time and there was one in the veil of york but otherwise we have skies like these can be the majority of us having dry, sunny and hot day. and talking of heat, the met office have issued their first extreme heat warning. well, these warnings only started being issued injune and this is just the first hot spell we have seen. but this area, it represents an area of concern to the met office where we could see some impacts from the heat whether that be impacts to health or indeed infrastructure, things like trains might need to go slightly slower due to the tracks heating up in this hot weather. that kind of thing. at the moment there's not too much going on, it's a clear start to the day tuesday and of course it has been very warm overnight, those temperatures starting off tuesday morni

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cecilia kang let me start with you.e of the book refers to. >> well, it's simply that the company prioritizes growth and it prioritizes engagement on the site and that has come at a cost. the collateral damage has been the spread of misinformation and the things that really spill over into real life and cause no harm and that's the dichotomy that the press has to reckon with. it's great success from its users as well as potential harms that it causes with its users. >> with regards to the back-and-forth with the administration and facebook over covid, there's a biologist who says that facebook is using some sleight of hand with his numbers. he noted that facebook gets the 85% by counting those who have or intend to be vaccinated or say they have as opposed to the president's plan which has to do with the people who actually been vaccinated. that that's 70% goal. what do you make of this back and forth between the administration and facebook? how do you see it? [ no audio ] that figure you gave of tens of millions of pos

and cecilia kang, let me start with you.at the company prioritizes growth and prioritizes engagement on the site and that comes at a cost. the collateral damage has been more recently, the spread of misinformation and spills over into real life and causes harm and that's the dichotomy that they struggle with. it's great success from its users as well as potential harms that it causes for its users. >> sheera, with regards to the back and forth with the administration. there is a biologist named carl who says facebook is using sleight of hand with his numbers. and one of his tweets, he noted that facebook says that 85%, by counting those who have are already intend to be vaccinated to say they have. as opposed to the presidents plan which has to do with the people who have actually been vaccinated. that's the 70% goal with. do you make of this back and forth between the administration and facebook? how do you see it? >> i think -- that figure you gave of tens of millions of posts that were taken down is very much based on --

downy unstopables >> joining us now cecilia kang and sheera frenkel they're both reporters for the newrs of an ugly truth inside facebook's battle for domination. cecilia, let me begin with you. what did you learn in the research for this book about facebook that surprised you the most? >> you know, we thought that we knew just about everything that was to know about facebook because we've been covering this company for so many years, but we were very surprised by a lot of our findings. we interviewed more than 400 people for this book, most people were employees of the company. we found very importantly that there was a pattern that was really disturbing that of the company being warned of problems that were emerging from data privacy abuses to the spread of this information that led to genocide in myanmar, to russian interference in the election to the spread of misinformation that lead for example to the capitol riots in january six. over and over the executives were warned that there were big problems, and over and over they did not heed those warnings and they did not act. >> and

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inside facebook's battle for domination award winning new york times reporters share of franco and cecilia kang report. how while the facebook was connecting the world, they were also mishandling members data spreading fake news and amplifying dangerous. polarizing hate speech. exclusive reporting details help platform architecture, boosted inflammatory rhetoric, conspiracy theories, and partisan filter bubbles to keep users on facebook as much as possible feeding a voracious data mining machine that earned record profits. the authors show us founder mark sucker bird hill heralded as the nerdy boy genius turned. billionaire and cheryl sandburg celebrated ceo as hobbled by hubris as their technology is co opted by hate mongers, criminals, and corrupt political regimes around the world with devastating consequences. coming up when government deregulation ran a mock in the 1990 s radio disc jockey cease to being an opportune career path. now corporate record labels and some in congress or even threatening the robots. you know, here's spinning that hits on f. m. how long will music be free? this is