Facebook whistleblower Francis Hogan told the Senate subcommittee this week,

she didn't know why the company's servers had gone offline for more than five

hours the day before. But I know that for more than five hours, Facebook wasn't

used to deepen divides, destabilize democracies, and make young girls and women

feel bad about their bodies. Hogan was there to tell lawmakers more about

documents she'd obtained as a Facebook employee. Documents that revealed the

company's internal concerns about its products. Concerns that they could

harm teenagers, amplify extremism, and lead to violence. Concerns that Hogan

claimed Facebook is concealing from the public and its shareholders. When we

realized Big Tobacco was hiding the harms it caused, the government took action.

When we figured out cars were safer with seatbelts, the government took action.

And when our government learned that opioids were taking lives, the government

took action. I implore you to do the same here. But despite a lot of talk about

more regulation of Facebook, it's not clear the talk will translate to action

in Congress, at least not anytime soon. For now, the company will be judged in the

court of public opinion. Global public opinion. Facebook has 2.8 billion users

around the world. And for a lot of those people, the company's products, which

include Instagram and WhatsApp are a crucial part of their livelihoods.

What I heard is, well, I didn't make any money today because everything was

down. I didn't have my store. I'm on Alta Rabishi, heads the International

Council for Small Businesses, millions of which felt the pain of Facebook's

outage this week. India, Brazil, United States, Russia, Mexico, Germany, Italy,

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