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I'm Miles Parks. I cover voting and misinformation and we've got MPR's tech correspondent Shannon Bond here with us. Hi Shannon

Hey guys and Shannon

I'm sure that you have been really busy over the past few days a Facebook whistleblower leaked a bunch of documents

From the company to a number of news organizations including MPR

And everyone may remember that this whistleblower Francis Hagen

Testified before Congress about these documents earlier this month the choices being made inside of Facebook are disastrous

For our children for our public safety

for our privacy and for our democracy and

That is why we must demand Facebook make changes when she testified these documents had only been shared with a few reporters

Now they have been shared much more widely and

There are many thousands of pages that have now been reviewed by a number of outlets and more is on the way

Shannon can you start by like just breaking down some of the major takeaways from these documents?

Yeah, I mean I'd say like the sort of overall theme here is that Facebook employees in many Facebook employees

sort of as documented in internal research in

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