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The Lead with Jake Tapper

The Damning Fallout From The Facebook Papers

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

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3.51.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2021

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Leaked records show FB knew its platforms were being used for human trafficking, spreading extremism, and fomenting violence. What did Zuckerberg know, and when did he know it? Plus: Could two COVID vaccines soon be available for kids? And: What went wrong on the “Rust” movie set? To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Good thing I kept my my space, right Tom?

0:05.4

The lead starts right now.

0:07.8

The crisis is expanding thousands of pages of leaked internal Facebook documents revealing

0:12.8

even more troubling problems from human trafficking to fomenting violence.

0:17.8

What did Zuckerberg know and when did he know it?

0:20.3

Then perhaps not just one but two COVID vaccines could soon be available for your young kids.

0:26.8

But Moderna just announced about its shot, plus what went wrong on set CNN has just learned

0:33.5

the assistant director who handed that gun to Alec Baldwin had been fired from a previous

0:39.4

movie after a crew member was injured in a gun incidence.

0:44.8

Hello and welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tappel.

0:49.5

We begin with our tech lead today in the damning fallout from the Facebook papers, a vast

0:55.3

trove of newly leaked documents from inside the social media giant.

0:59.9

These records were provided to journalists by Facebook whistleblower Frances Hagen.

1:04.3

They provide alarming new insights into how the company has repeatedly failed to stop

1:09.1

the spread of extremism or hate speech or illegal activities on its platform.

1:15.4

The documents suggest Facebook executives care far more about keeping you engaged and

1:21.0

addicted to scrolling as one expert calls it an addiction engine.

1:25.4

CNN's Doni O'Sullivan joins me now live and Doni, one of Facebook's most high profile

1:30.0

failures was the stop of the steel rally which ultimately became, of course, the deadly

1:35.6

January 6th insurrection.

1:37.6

That's right Jake and we're learning from these documents that there are so many missed

1:42.7

signals, really missed warnings when it came to the stop of the steel movement.

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