also, exclusive reporting from donie o'sullivan on how the social network makes money on the anti-vaccine message. this at the end of the day that saw seven cases of the omicron variant which underscores the need to get on top of the situation. it prompted pfizer's ceo albert borla to ask for expanded doses of the booster vaccine for 16 and 17-year-olds. quoting from him, it is our hope to provide strong protection for as many people as possible, particularly in light of the new variants, he said. when he posted that, there were two new reported cases, one in minnesota, the other in colorado. late today new york added five new cases. today also saw president biden visit the national institutes of health just outside washington and unveil new covid fighting policies. they include tighter testing requirements for travelers coming into the u.s. and extending the current mask mandate for domestic planes, trains, and buses. he touched on that but made boosters the heart of his message, using the b word more than two dozen times. >> the cdc, the food and drug administration, the fda, and our to

. >> donie o'sullivan, thank you. >>> joining me with more on this topic roger mcnamee, co-founder ofacebook investors, former adviser to mark zuckerberg and now a critic of the company. great to see you. >> pleasure to be back we. >> we heard from facebook the explanation from donenie reporting. is this an issue not noticing or an issue of looking the other way? >> very much the latter. facebook does not prioritize the safety of its users. there are literally billions of posts on facebook platforms every single day, and some percentage of them, you know, i don't know if it's 1% or 5%, are harmful posts. that means tens of millions of harmful posts a day. now, facebook would have to hire hundreds of thousands of people to police that. artificial intelligence just isn't good enough. their strategy is simple. do nothing and wait for people to complain. or for intread it reporters like donie to find it'sthe problem with that, of course, is the harm's already been done, and there are literally millions of instances of this, of people who cannot get their story out into the public. this is

donie o'sullivan filed this report. >> some disturbing and frankly disgusting ads running on facebook it says i am originally from america, currently reside in 1941 germany. another ad shows graphic of a syringe vaccine, says slowly and quietly, but it is a holocaust. another talking about political violence make hanging traitors great again. facebook seemingly missed the ads until brought to the company's attention by cnn. the company saying the first two ads, nazi holocaust comparisons go against the company's covid vaccine policies and those ads will no longer be running. the last ad, make hanging traitors great again, facebook doesn't have a problem, even though it is a few months since we saw gallon ohs outside the u.s. capitol. often times, facebook likes to frame their issues as free speech or that they don't want to secensor posts. these are paid ads, they're accepting money to run to target at facebook users in the u.s. on wednesday, the ceo which is owned by facebook and meta is testifying before the senate. i am sure he will be asked about issues like this and also harms of

. >>> i want to turn to cnn's donie o'sullivan who has disturbing information about facebook and messaging. you found out facebook was selling ads comparing vaccines to the holocaust? i mean this is despicable. what can you tell us? >> reporter: yeah, don. it is really messed up what they're allowing on their platform. take a look at these ads that facebook accepted money for and loud to run. one is showing a picture of a vaccine as saying slowly and quietly but a holocaust again playing into this insane idea the vaccine is a tool of killing people. app another that ran, i'm originally from america but i currently reside in 1941 germany. a few nights ago when a fox news personality compared dr. anthony fauci to a nazi doctor the angel of death it caused outrage but this stuff is not happening in a vacuum. for a lot of americans this kind of thing is all over their facebook feeds and facebook will often like to say this is about free speech. we don't twwant to tamp down on too much stuff even if misinformation but this is different. these are actual ads facebook is taking money for and putt

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it's right here. >> donie o'sullivan joins us now. it's a well-told piece.y. it's going to be a big culture issue ahead. >> and as i reported, peace out, began to learn this is a debate about systemic racism in this country and people denying that it exists. it obviously does exist. than it does an academic tier. but what it does show is this can be weaponized, a scary term like this and used around social media. one thing i did see was qanon type events was people being told run for your school board, run for your school board, which should be a good thing to engage with democracy at that level, but so much is happening on a level that has been encouraged by misinformation or disinformation. >> school boards and battlegrounds. appreciate it as always. >>> we'll go to michigan next for a powerful moment of community support. good! looking good start with bounce wrinkleguard, the megasheet designed to prevent wrinkles in the dryer. ♪ it wasn't me by shaggy ♪ you're never responsible for unauthorized purchases on your discover card. ♪ ♪ ♪ (sha bop sha bop) ♪ ♪

it's right here. >> donie o'sullivan joins us now. it's a really well-told piece.ed that piece out, we began to learn this is a debate about systemic racism in this country and people denying that it exists. it obviously does exist. than it is about any academic theory. but what it does show is this can be weaponized, a scary term like this and used around social media. one thing i did see was these grassroots and qanon type events was people being told run for your school board, run for your school board, which should be a good thing to engage with democracy at that level, but so much seems to be happening on a level that has been encouraged by misinformation or disinformation. >> school boards, a new battleground. appreciate it as always. >>> coming up, we'll go to michigan next for a powerful michigan next for a powerful moment of community support. i love finding out things that other people don't want me to know. mm-hmm. [beep] i just wanted to say... ♪ find yourself in these situations and see who you are. and that's just part of the bargain. ♪ are you one of

donie o'sullivan joining us now. donie, before we get to the hearing here, there is a new report that came out and it claims that instagram offers a drug pipeline for kids. what can you tell us about this? >> that's right, brianna. there is this tech advocacy group called the tech transparency project and they ran a pretty simple experiment on instagram. they set up some accounts. and registered them as belonging to 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17-year-olds. teenagers, young people, and after a little bit of searching for drug names, xanax, ecstasy, they were led down a line, and a ton of accounts that are openly advertising drugs, ecstasy, oxycontin, xanax, to sell to young people. instagram responding saying that sort of stuff is not allowed on their platform, but clearly this is happening on the platform. and oftentimes instagram and facebook will say, well, you know, this is really hard. it is hard to find this stuff. it is hard to stamp out this stuff. but clearly it is not that hard if somebody can run a simple experiment

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. >> so joining me now, dony o'sullivan.mpact of social media on children front and center in this hearing, particularly the influence instagram has on teenage girls. what were senators most concerned about here? >> yeah, they were pretty peeved off with the instagram ceo today. they were sort of saying they weren't getting the transparency and commitments from him to be transparent about data. but senator richard blumenthal, who has been pretty sharp on this issue for the most part, asked a very good question, which was even when parents see things or just when any users see content on the platform that could be dangerous, and when they reported to instagram, facebook, meta, whatever you want to call it today, that instagram doesn't do anything. have a listen. >> shouldn't children and parents have the right to report dangerous material and get a response? because we've heard harrowing stories from parents who tried to report and have heard no response. my office made a report and got no response until cnn made the report t

cnn's donie o'sullivan has more. >> reporter: hey, laura and christine, this was adam asari's first time appearing before congress. and despite being zuckerberg -- one of zuckerberg's top lieutenants and running instagram, he has got very little scrutiny relative to zuckerberg in the past. so yesterday was a big day out for him. and we saw a lot of tense exchanges between senators and between masari. have a listen. >> keeping people safe is not just about any one company. we believe there should be an industry body that will determine the best practices when it comes to what i think are the three most important questions with regards to youth safety. how to verify age, how to build age-appropriate experiences and how to build parental controls. >> reporter: and one question that was asked by senator richard blumenthal from connecticut was that even when parents of young people see troubling content on the app, when they see it on facebook or they see it on instagram and they report it to instagram, oftentimes instagram does nothing. have a listen. >> shouldn't children and parents have t

let's bring in donie o'sullivan.absurd rhetoric is being repeated extensively online. >> absolutely. as absurd as what you heard on fox, that's the sort of thing that is happening on facebook every day. facebook, in fact, even taking money to run ads with these sort of messages. take a look at some of the ads cnn came across on facebook. one that reads i'm originally from america but reside in 1941 germany. another shows an image of a vaccine, of a syringe and says slowly and quietly but it's a holocaust and another about political violence, making traitors -- make hanging traitors great again. and, jake, it's important to point out these aren't just random posts on facebook. these are paid ads. these are posts that facebook is taking money for and targeting to its users. we showed these to facebook. facebook said those first two ads about the holocaust and nazi germany weren't against its rules and they took them down. they seemingly missed them. but that last one, make hanging traitors great again is not against fa

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donie o'sullivan, thanks. >>> let's discuss with "wall street journal" tech reporter deepa and jim steyer, the founder of common sense media which focuses on media, internet and technology safety for kids. so seetha, senators asked the head of instagram about data showing that the app is addictive and he flat out r rejected the notion it's addictive, which i think all of us can probably agree it's pretty addictive. how does it line up with all of the internal documents that you obtained from facebook which owns instagram when it comes to young users? >> yeah, i am not 100% sure how adam would reconcile those public comments today with the black and white data that we see. it's not even just this teen research. the teen research shows the use knowledge of agreement tended to yield or for a sizable percentage of them, resulted in negative feelings about themselves, bad self image. more broadly beyond what the instagram research about teens show, there are -- there is other research within the company that we have reported on that shows about 1 in 8 users globally have some kind of problemat

. >> donie o'sullivan, thank you. >> thank you.o the author of digital distress, growing up online. always great to see you. we have talked about this before, just yesterday in some convenient timing, instagram announced some new safety features. i'll read them to you. they're going to have new take a break alerts. they're going to take a stricter approach to what content they recommend to teenagers, maybe not, for instance, anorexia content. they're also going to allow people to bulk delete photos, videos, likes, and comments and create an educational hub for parents. will this solve the problem? >> no. is the quick answer to that, i think this is just a play book that you can look back in history on a time line, and see that they've done every time that they've gotten into hot water. they're contrite. they throw up a few features and accommodations that they think the senate will be happy with, and then they move about as business as usual, pushing forward the things they need to do to get their next consumer group which is kids.

as donie o'sullivan reports, the instagram chief's testimony comes after months of scrutiny over the. the trust is gone. >> reporter: the head of instagram facing a disturbing picture of his platform in and the harm it causes especially among kids. >> do you view the kids as a feeder way for people to get into your product? have you not -- have you not done things to get more teenagers interested in your product? are you not worried about losing them to other platforms? you better tell the truth. you're under oath. >> reporter: it's the latest round of tough questions from lawmakers for meta, formerly facebook, which owns instagram. >> shouldn't children and parents have the right to report dangerous material and get a response? >> senator, yes, i believe we try and respond to all reports. and if we ever fail to do so, that's a mistake that we should correct. >> reporter: instagram embroiled in controversy since whistleblower frances haugens released internal documents about the harms of the social media platform on young people, particularly teenage girls. >> facebook's internal res

donie o'sullivan is here. what's the plan?re rolling this out. it's not a coincidence. one day before they go to congress. and some folks will cynically say it's so they have something to tell the senators. say we're doing something. here is what some of the features that they are rolling out. they are going to let people know that they should take a break from the app. they're going to take a stricter approach to content they recommend for teenagers. they're going to allow both deletions of photos and videos previous likes and comments, and create an educational hub for parents. which all sounds very well and good, but i think, you know, the company's critics, a lot of lawmakers, the facebook whistleblowers will say this is really nothing. this doesn't scratch the surface. people want fundamental change at these platforms. this isn't going to solve the issues. if you set up an account and you're a young teenager girl and start following some accounts as we did with an experiment in our reporting a few weeks ago and the app st