Facebook Sold Ads Comparing U.S. Government’s Covid Response to Nazi Germany

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🗓️ 3 December 2021

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Today we're bringing you an episode of Anderson Cooper 360. A CNN exclusive reveals Facebook sold ads promoting anti-vaccine messages and comparing the U.S. government’s response to Covid-19 to Nazi Germany. Ads were also sold that casted doubt on the result of the 2020 election and pushed political violence. Facebook whistleblower and former Facebook executive Frances Haugen tells Anderson Cooper in an exclusive interview that Facebook knows the “biases in the algorithms give the most rage for the least amount of dollars” to extreme content.

Plus, President Biden urged all Americans to get boosted as the U.S. joins a growing list of countries that have confirmed cases of the Omicron coronavirus variant. New York Gov. Kathy Hochul revealed there are five confirmed cases of the variant in her state. Dr. Ashish Jha is the Dean of the Brown University School of Public Health. He joins AC360 to discuss what we know and don’t know about the new Covid-19 variant.

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0:00.0	Good evening tonight an exclusive interview with Facebook whistleblower Francis
0:04.2	Hauigan on her former company's role in the spread of COVID misinformation and
0:08.5	disinformation. It is about the doctors and nurses who have to cope with
0:12.5	conspiracies about COVID-19 and vaccines. It is about people who have suffered
0:17.5	harassment online. Facebook knows what is happening on the platform and they
0:21.9	have systematically under-invested in fighting these those harms. They know they
0:26.8	do far too little about it. In fact, they have incentives for it to be this way.
0:30.8	That's a portion of her congressional testimony from yesterday. She's going to
0:34.4	expand on that tonight on this program. Also exclusive reporting from CNN's
0:38.1	Donio Sullivan on how the social network Facebook makes money on the anti-vaccine
0:43.6	message. This comes at the end of a day that saw seven new cases, the
0:47.3	Omicron variant identified, which is not unexpected, but certainly underscores the
0:51.6	need to get on top of the situation. It prompted Pfizer CEO Albert Borla late
0:56.2	today to tweet that his company has asked the FDA to expand authorization for
1:00.7	booster doses of its COVID vaccine to include 16 and 17-year-olds.
1:04.5	Quoting now from him, it is our hope to provide strong protection for as many
1:09.7	people as possible, particularly in light of the new variants, he said.
1:12.6	Now, when he posted that, there were two new reported cases, one in Minnesota,
1:17.0	the other in Colorado, late today, New York added five new cases. Today also saw
1:22.1	President Biden visit the National Institutes of Health just outside Washington
1:25.7	on bail, new COVID-fighting policies. They include tighter testing requirements
1:30.2	for travelers coming into the U.S. and extending the current mask mandate for
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