cecilia: frances haugan, the whistleblower, her team in facebook in 2020 was disbanded, the civic integrityeam. that team was charged with trying to fight election elated misinformation. this was at the time that the trump supporters were organizing on facebook's various platforms, facebook, spoke groups, facebook messages, instagram and whatsapp . they were organizing and riling each other up on what they believed was a stolen election. so what she said in the testimony this week in the senate consumer protection subcommittee was that his book turned a blind eye in the sense that it it's security forces down by disbanding her group that was the straw that broke the camels back for her and she decided to quit. it's important to note that what she was saying internally, this is a pattern she describes in all of her testimony, is a company that betrays itself differently in public fro what the company was really dealing with internally and what it nailed. on january 11, after the january 6 capitol riots, the chief operating officer of facebook spoke to reuters in a video interview and when as

. >> you can watch the entire hearing with former facebook employee frances haugan about the potentialarm facebook could have on children based on its research data coming up tonight on c-span. it's also available on our new video app, c-span now. ♪

. >> you can watch the entire hearing with former facebook employee frances haugan about the potential harm facebook could have on children based on its research data coming up tonight on c-span. it's also available on our new video app, c-span now. ♪ host: neil bradley is -- >> directly and through our federation of state and local chambers, about 3 million local businesses. >> there was reporting this morning about your chambers, chambers position on the infrastructure bill. it says there has been a change of mind. if i'm reading it correctly, what has changed? >> i would not so much: a change of mind as a change in the system -- situation we are facing. the change is a support of the bipartisan info structure bill that puts nearly $1 trillion in investment in roads, bridges, rebecca meant replacing water pipes. i got bipartisan votes in the u.s. senate, it was supposed to get a standalone vote in the house of representatives last week. we wanted to see that bill passed. we still want it passed and signed into law. but late friday, the president and democratic leadership fought to li

these records were provided to journalists by facebook whistleblower frances haugan and provided alarming new insights into how the company has repeatedly failed to stop the spread of extremism or hate speech or illegal activities on its platforms. the documents suggest facebook executives care far more about keeping you engaged and addicted to scrolling. as one expert calls it, an addiction engine. cnn's donie o'sullivan joins me. one of facebook's high-profile failures was the stop the steal rally which ultimately became, of course, the deadly january 6th insurrection. >> that's right, jake. and we are learning from the documents that there are so many missed signals, really missed warnings when it came to the stop the steal movement. we could all see in those months last november, last december that this was getting violent. there was a lot of overlap with violent movements. but facebook acted too late. have a watch. >> facebook didn't invent hate but it's making hate worse? >> unquestionably. >> reporter: facebook mobiler frances haugen testifying they'll keep fueling violence around

in a new interview with "60 minutes," former product manager frances haugan claims facebook knows that its platforms are used to spread hate, violence, and misinformation, and that its leaders have done very much less than advertised to stop it. haugan who has released tens of thousands of pages of company research to congress and the sec says facebook knowingly chooses profits over safety. >> the thing i saw at facebook over and over again was there were conflicts of interest between what was good for the public and what was good for facebook. and facebook over and over again chose to optimize for its own interests like making more money. facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money. >> she will be testifying tomorrow before a senate committee about all of this. and facebook is trying its best at damage control in the face of this. >>> the other major story that we're following -- the race to contain a major oil spill off the coast of southern california. more than 100,0