Good evening, Facebook likes to say it was built to bring people together.

It literally uses those words in promotional material.

Well today it did bring people together.

For the first time in a long time, Democratic and Republican members of a Senate Commerce

subcommittee were together, united in their praise of whistleblower Francis Houget.

Now as you know, she's the former Facebook product manager who leaked tens of thousands

of pages of internal documents indicating that Facebook knows the harm that they in Instagram

can do, but chooses to put clicks, eyeballs and ad sales ahead of fixing the problem.

The company's leadership knows how to make Facebook and Instagram saver, but won't make

the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people.

The documents I have provided to Congress prove that Facebook has repeatedly misled

the public about what its own research reveals about the safety of children, the efficacy

of its artificial intelligence systems, and its role in spreading divisive and extreme

messages.

Well, as you'd imagine, this is not the company's public position.

Listen to what CEO Mark Wizzuckerberg told lawmakers just last March.

The research that we've seen is that using social apps to connect with other people can

have positive mental health benefits and well-being benefits, like helping people feel more

connected and less lonely.

Mark Zuckerberg talking about the research that he's seen.

Now, Francis, how again on research, we do not know whether he's actually seen, but he

was certainly privy to because it was done by the company itself, his company.

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