ms. frances and thank you for being here and taking a personal risk to be here, we're grateful. i really want to ask a number of questions that sort of speak to the fact that this system is entirely engineered for a particular outcome. maybe you could start by telling us what is facebook optimized for? >> i think it not necessarily obvious to us as consumers of facebook, facebook is actually a two-sided marketplace, it's been-- and consumers. you can't get content without produce it. the consumption based ranking, they said we believe it's important for people to interact with each other and a large part what is disclosed in the documents, a large factor that motivated the change was that people were producing less content. facebook has run things called producer site experiments where they artificially get more people distribution to see what is the impact on your future behavior of getting more likes, more reaches, because they know you get the little hits, you're more likely to produce more content. so right now, you know, facebook has said repeatedly it's not a business inte

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events as we've seen with frances haugen had made it clear how important whistleblower protection really is, , and that is why i introduced the ftc whistleblower act, along with ms trahan, my colleague. this legislation protects the support from retaliation, that is, coming forward, and i wanted to get the opinion of some of our witnesses. and also incentivizes, and mr. ahmed, you mentioned incentivizing to make sure that these harms are not present there. and i wonder if you could comment a little bit more on whether or not and why you believe the ftc whistleblower act would actually help deter social media companies from making business decisions that could be harmful to consumers. >> yes. frances haugen turned on the floodlights, so to speak, within facebook, but what she did can easily be replicated. for one thing it's incredibly expensive. she had lawyers, a lot of income and her real value, the reason it's so important is that she was exposed deception, active deception by social media companies, something that can't easily be replicated with any of the mechanism beyond whistleblowing. so the only way to cast the light on that deception is the more people