During my time at Facebook, I came to realize a devastating truth.

Almost no one outside of Facebook knows what happens inside of Facebook.

The company intentionally hides vital information from the public, from the US government,

and from governments around the world.

The documents I have provided to Congress prove that Facebook has repeatedly misled the public about what its own research

reveals about the safety of children, the efficacy of its artificial intelligence systems,

and its role in spreading divisive and extreme messages. I came forward because I believe

that every human being deserves the dignity of the truth.

Thank you. Every human being deserves the dignity of the truth. I'm Sarah Kensier, the author of the best-selling books,

The View from Flyover Country, and Hiding in Plain Sight.

I'm Andrea Chalupa, a journalist and filmmaker,

and the writer and producer of the journalistic thriller, Mr. Jones, about Stalin's genocide famine in Ukraine.

And this is Gaslit Nation, a podcast covering corruption in the United States and rising autocracy around the world.

And as always, we have an early show at Gaslit Nation that runs

Tuesday afternoons. This week, we're going to be answering questions submitted from our listeners

at the democracy defender level and higher on our Patreon. And we have always a lot of interesting questions, and there's a lot that's on people's

minds, and it gives us ideas for the show, these discussions we have with our listeners. So if you want

to submit a question, you can sign up there. And we're also going to talk about the massive

expose of the Pandora papers and what they mean. If you want to hear the early episodes,

you can sign up at the truth teller level and hire, and we'll meet you there.

How is that? Oh, I keep going.

Aren't you going to talk? Do you want me to set you up for this?

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