my guest tonight is former facebook product manager turned whistle-blower frances haugen.ioritizes profit over public safety and tiananmen tal health. france es haas elg-- haugen, welcome to the daily show. >> thank you for inviting me, happy to be here. >> trevor: your name isn't as big as the story that you really, i mean, leaked to the world. you know, a lot of people you say frances haug enyou say who is that, but if you say to people hey, remember how we all learned that facebook and what social media is doing is essentially destroying teenagers brains and harming all of us. >> yeah, that report? happened because of you. so let's start with the question of why. you worked for google, you work for pinterest, yell, and yet you blew the whistle on facebook, why did you feel like this is something i can't sit on. >> so when i joined facebook i thought i was going to work on misinformation in the united states. and i was surprised and i actually was charged with working on information, only outside the united states. and like many people in many technologies, i had never r

. ♪ >> the latest threat from frances haugen -- from meta came out.omberg caught up with the competition she. >> i am on instagram and if that does not work anymore, that would probably give me another 10 or 20 minutes a day. >> threats are never a good idea with eeo. meantime, the race to build a quantum computer is heating up. systems are merging with blank check companies putting the combined company valued at $1.6 billion. emil michael is here to break down. $300 million is a big boost. >> yes. but i liked about this is this is in r&d company. this actually served clients like volkswagen. that is why i like it. >> it is still considered kind of an underdog in the quantum computing field. what is the special sauce when it comes to the technological approach that makes them a good bet in your view? >> because they have been around a while, the ip portfolio is enormous. what they have built so far is a huge treasure trove in value, second, their approach is the only approach that works for optimization problems like employee scheduling. imagine how a

internal facebook documents released by facebook whistleblower frances haugen revealed his message postedurrection was underway at the capitol. never forget the day that trump rode down the escalator in 2015, called for a ban on muslims entering the u.s. and we determined that it violated our policies, and yet we explicitly overrode the policy and did not take the video down. there is a straight line that can be drawn from that day to today, one of the darkest days in the is three of democracy and self governance. history will not judge us kindly. joining us now is congressman from silicon valley, ro khanna, of the congressional progressive caucus, author of the book dignity in a digital age. thank you for joining us again tonight. what about that point raised in that facebook post? the point that the companies have these policies, then they do not enforce these policies, and that particular facebook worker could see a straight line from the way that donald trump treated the january six campaign to the attack. >> it is right, but it gets worse. before january 6th, facebook knew there were

they also did it to get away from the frances haugen, you know, because she was in front of congress. >> the whistle-blower. >> on "60 minutes," the whistle-blower, exactly right. so, that was like a shell game, didn't really work people didn't really -- >> they should have changed the name to instagram. >> they probably should have >> well, instagram has been left out of -- instagram has been left out of all the 2016 election stuff, like it might have played a role, but like, if they wanted to change the name to something that's popular and productive, and would possibly make people less confused about what they're trying to do, instagram would have been a superior choice. >> so, dr. j -- >> i agree and that's where they're -- go ahead, scott >> i want to get a question in to you as well if you think it's going to trade into the low 200s, would you be an equity buyer or play it through options and if so, what kind of numbers would pique your interest >> somewhere between $200 to $210 i would probably trade an option at that strike because i have a defined amount of risk if we're wron

. >> last week, we spoke with facebook whistleblower frances haugen about the dangerous impact socialdren and teenagers' mental health. last year, haugen released internal facebook documents that suggested the company was prioritizing profits over the safety of its users. facebook's parent company meta says it has since developed new privacy and safety tools on its various platforms to help curb the number of users negatively impacted from using its apps. joining us now, democratic member of both the judiciary and armed services committee, senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. he, along with republican senator marcia blackburn, are introducing the kids online safety act. welcome, senator. tell us about this new legislation. >> well, thanks for having me. what's really distinctive about this legislation is, number one, it is bipartisan. senator blackburn and i have work on it through five separate hearings, giving those social media tech platforms an opportunity to testify, along with the whistleblower, frances haugen and other experts and researchers. what we documented here, ver

joining us now, facebook whistleblower and advocate for public oversight of social media, frances haugen the past week. they've lost about a third, a third of their value. the stock plummeted 25 percent in one day. it has continued to drop this past week. it is almost as if they are not immune from the laws of gravity, that years of bad behavior may be finally catching up to them. >> you know, i came forward because i was deeply concerned that facebook's actions and the information they were hiding from the public was hurting people, and now it has caught up with them. you know, now it is also hurting people's financial lives because, remember, that stock slide isn't like a very dramatic graph. it is people's pensions, it is people's retirements. so facebook hiding this information from the public has real consequences. >> well, and facebook, of course, tried to explain away their own internal documents, they were like internal documents from tobacco companies back in the 1950s and 1960s. >> yeah. >> and yet i swear, we look every day and we see another teen suicide, we see another suici