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Laura Coates Live

Facebook Whistleblower Exposes Risk and Opportunity

Laura Coates Live

CNN

News

4.22.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

First, Chris goes one-on-one with an early Facebook investor, Roger McNamee, on the Facebook whistleblower's testimony before Congress. Then, retired FBI agent Bobby Chacon joins Chris to discuss the latest in the search for Brian Laundrie. Chris wraps up the show with Ana Navarro. 

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0:00.0

All right, Anderson, thank you very much.

0:01.6

I am Chris Cuomo and welcome to Prime Time.

0:03.7

It's been an eye-opening 24 hours for our collective social media existence.

0:09.0

And we just got some new information.

0:12.0

Facebook has just fired back.

0:14.7

The Zuck posted a note on his Facebook page.

0:18.2

It was supposed to be to employees, but he knew it would get out.

0:22.6

And it is a long negation of the whistleblower.

0:26.9

It starts out about the massive outage that he called the worst in years and that they

0:32.5

are debriefing how to strengthen systems.

0:36.0

First, no accusations, but that outage sure came at a convenient time, didn't it?

0:41.9

Got everybody talking about the outage instead of what was being outed in Congress.

0:47.6

Second, it's interesting that the outage has Zuck searching for answers to do better.

0:55.0

But he doesn't say that about anything happening in Congress.

0:58.4

Not really.

1:00.0

Other than admitting Congress does need to regulate social media more, he flatly rejects this

1:07.2

central concern from the whistleblower.

1:10.0

I have put their astronomical profits before people.

1:16.1

Now, astronomical profits before people.

1:20.9

Of course, do you believe this would make Facebook different than many big companies?

1:26.2

So it's not a shocking suggestion.

1:28.7

But it is a window into the reality that we see Facebook as different from just a huge

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