WEBVTT 00:00:00.100 --> 00:00:02.300 My name is Francis Haugen. 00:00:02.300 --> 00:00:06.100 I used to work at Facebook, but I'm here today because I believe 00:00:06.100 --> 00:00:10.000 Facebook's products harm children Stoke Division and weaken 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:13.800 our democracy. I saw Facebook repeatedly encounter conflicts 00:00:13.800 --> 00:00:15.600 between its own profits and our safety, 00:00:15.600 --> 00:00:20.500 Facebook consistently resolved, in favor of its own process. 00:00:20.500 --> 00:00:24.400 The result has been more division, more harm, 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:27.800 more lies, more threats and more combat. 00:00:27.800 --> 00:00:29.300 In some cases. 00:00:29.300 --> 00:00:33.900 This dangerous online talk has led to actual violence that harms 00:00:33.900 --> 00:00:34.900 and even Kelseyville. 00:00:34.900 --> 00:00:38.700 No one truly understands the destructive choices made by Facebook 00:00:38.700 --> 00:00:40.300 except Facebook. 00:00:41.700 --> 00:00:44.100 We can afford nothing less than full transparency. 00:00:44.100 --> 00:00:47.300 As long as Facebook is operating in the shadows. 00:00:47.300 --> 00:00:49.900 Hiding, its research from public scrutiny. 00:00:49.900 --> 00:00:54.300 It is unaccountable until the incentive change. 00:00:54.300 --> 00:01:07.100 Facebook will not change the perception that the truth. 00:01:07.100 --> 00:01:10.800 Either way. We'll have reconciliation and we can move forward 00:01:10.800 --> 00:01:13.200 is by first, being honest, and declaring World, 00:01:13.200 --> 00:01:19.400 bankruptcy, and the buck stops with Mark. 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:21.900 There's no one here currently holding Mark accountable 00:01:21.900 --> 00:01:24.500 by himself, has Facebook ever offered features. 00:01:25.500 --> 00:01:30.900 That it knew had a negative effect on children and teens metal 00:01:30.900 --> 00:01:31.200 help. 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:35.400 Facebook knows that is amplification algorithms. 00:01:35.400 --> 00:01:37.600 Things like, engagement base, ranking on Instagram. 00:01:37.600 --> 00:01:41.100 Can leave children from Faerie and Nacho's topics, 00:01:41.100 --> 00:01:46.300 like, healthy recipes to anorexia content over a very short. Of 00:01:46.300 --> 00:01:51.400 time. Facebook, internal report found that Instagram 00:01:51.400 --> 00:01:53.500 makes quote body image issues. 00:01:53.500 --> 00:01:57.100 Worse for 1 and 315 girl, you know, if 00:01:57.100 --> 00:02:00.600 they made any changes in response to that research, 00:02:00.600 --> 00:02:08.200 to try to correct or mitigate that Facebook has something 00:02:08.200 --> 00:02:10.500 that should have oversight from Congress, disorders, 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:11.900 are serious right there. 00:02:11.900 --> 00:02:14.200 Going to be women walking around this planet and sixty years 00:02:14.200 --> 00:02:17.200 with brittle bones because of choices that fit that Facebook 00:02:17.200 --> 00:02:22.800 me around today, or they're giving women with 120 years who want 00:02:22.800 --> 00:02:25.200 to have babies who can't because they're in Fertile as a result 00:02:25.200 --> 00:02:26.400 of Eating Disorders today. 00:02:26.400 --> 00:02:27.300 They're serious. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:33.700 Precious assets we have in America. 00:02:33.700 --> 00:02:42.100 Our youth are kids. 00:02:42.100 --> 00:02:46.700 If they don't have solutions to these things anytime, 00:02:46.700 --> 00:02:49.300 but they did something wrong, and they need help with all these 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:51.900 problems. And that's when World bankruptcy is when Facebook 00:02:51.900 --> 00:02:56.900 made statement has made statements in the past about how Instagram 00:02:56.900 --> 00:02:59.400 is providing the kids mental health, like kids are connecting 00:02:59.400 --> 00:03:00.300 your wants alone. 00:03:00.300 --> 00:03:05.100 But I'm so surprised about that is if Instagram is such a positive 00:03:05.100 --> 00:03:08.900 force, have we have we seen a golden age of teenage mental 00:03:08.900 --> 00:03:09.800 health in the last 10 years. 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:23.400 We seen some high school kids who are bullied on Instagram, 00:03:23.400 --> 00:03:25.500 The Bullying follows them home. 00:03:25.500 --> 00:03:27.400 If all of them into their bedrooms, 00:03:27.400 --> 00:03:30.100 the last thing they see before they go to bed at night of someone 00:03:30.100 --> 00:03:31.600 being cruel to them the first time. 00:03:31.900 --> 00:03:33.700 In the morning, is someone being cruel, 00:03:33.700 --> 00:03:36.200 to them Facebook's own research about Instagram? 00:03:37.600 --> 00:03:40.300 Contains quotes from kids saying. 00:03:40.300 --> 00:03:42.700 I feel bad when I use Instagram, 00:03:42.700 --> 00:03:46.200 but I also feel like I can't stop right eye. 00:03:46.200 --> 00:03:47.900 I know that was more time. I 00:03:47.900 --> 00:03:48.700 spend on this, the worst. 00:03:48.700 --> 00:03:51.400 I feel like I just can't like that. 00:03:51.400 --> 00:03:52.700 They want the next click. 00:03:52.700 --> 00:03:57.000 They want the next like they did the dopamine a little hits 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.600 all the time and 00:04:00.500 --> 00:04:02.500 my I feel a lot of pain for those kids. 00:04:02.500 --> 00:04:05.900 Right? Like they, they, they say, they fear being ostracized. 00:04:05.900 --> 00:04:07.300 If they step away from the platform. 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:11.200 Does it make sense that having a younger person get hooked on 00:04:11.200 --> 00:04:12.100 social media. 00:04:12.100 --> 00:04:16.300 I'm at a young age, makes them more profitable over the long-term. 00:04:16.300 --> 00:04:18.000 If they have a life ahead of them, 00:04:18.000 --> 00:04:21.700 talked about the importance of getting younger, 00:04:21.700 --> 00:04:25.600 users. For example, twins onto Instagram, like Instagram, 00:04:25.600 --> 00:04:29.400 kids because they need to have like, 00:04:29.400 --> 00:04:32.300 if they know that children bring their parents online and things 00:04:32.300 --> 00:04:35.100 like that. And so, they understand the value of younger users 00:04:35.100 --> 00:04:36.500 for the long-term. 00:04:36.500 --> 00:04:39.800 The Facebook would impact, the Facebook's bottom line, 00:04:39.800 --> 00:04:44.200 would, it have is the algorithm was changed to promote safety, 00:04:44.200 --> 00:04:50.800 Facebook, an unprofitable company. 00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:52.400 It just won't be a ludicrous. 00:04:52.400 --> 00:04:55.400 I thought possible company, like it is today with appropriate 00:04:55.400 --> 00:04:58.600 oversight and some of these constraints as possible. 00:04:58.600 --> 00:05:00.300 If Facebook are actually a much more props. 00:05:00.400 --> 00:05:02.100 What company five or ten years down the road? 00:05:02.100 --> 00:05:04.800 Is it wasn't as toxic as many people. 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:08.200 Quit it, but that's one of those counterfactual so we can actually 00:05:08.200 --> 00:05:12.100 pass the regulation might actually make Facebook more profitable 00:05:12.100 --> 00:05:12.800 over the long term.