Former Facebook Employee Testifies | October 6, 2021

[Music] a high profile testimony on capitol hill leads off our show this wednesday and it concerns applications used around the world i m carl azuz it's always good to have you watching francis haugen is a former employee of facebook she's also been characterized as a whistleblower someone who publicly points out wrongdoing because she released internal facebook documents that paint the company in a bad light how can accuses facebook of being aware that its apps cause problems in society but not doing enough to stop it specifically according to haugen those problems include the sharing of false or misleading information and the negative effects that instagram allegedly has on the body images of women and teenage girls i believe facebook's products harm children stoke division and weaken our democracy the company's leadership knows how to make facebook and instagram safer but won't make the necessary changes because they have put their astronomical profits before people congressional action is needed they won't solve this crisis without your help haugen left facebook earlier this year after working there as a product manager focused on civic integrity issues after her hearing yesterday facebook released a statement saying she'd been an employee for less than two years never attended a top level decision meeting and didn't work on or research the subject matter she testified about the company said it didn't agree with how she characterized many of the issues she discussed but that it did agree it was time to create standard rules for the internet in fact though haugen said she came forward at quote great personal risk her suggestions for addressing the problems at facebook were similar to what facebook has suggested itself haugen said congressional action is needed to regulate the company facebook ceo mark zuckerberg said last year that more government regulation would benefit facebook how can oppose the idea that facebook be broken up into smaller companies as critics and some lawmakers have suggested zuckerberg has also fiercely opposed that idea despite strongly criticizing facebook haugen told the wall street journal that her goal wasn't to bring the company down but to save it facebook had a nightmare day on monday with all of its platforms going offline facebook instagram and whatsapp were down for hours throughout monday and now the headache for the company moves here to washington dc the whistleblower who left the company back in may will be testifying before the senate we saw earlier in the week she spoke to 60 minutes where she outlined how she said facebook was damaging democracy and bad for elections and bad for the mental health of children we have her testimony her opening statement of her testimony she said facebook wants you to believe in false choices they want to believe you must choose between connecting with those you love online and your personal privacy that in order to share fun photos of your kids with all friends you must also be inundated with misinformation they want you to believe that this is that that is just part of the deal and she says that she doesn't want to hurt facebook she doesn't want to hurt people who are working there she wants to make facebook better and she wants to create space for social media to be a positive force in society something she says that is not happening right now 10 second trivia which of these cities has the worst traffic in the united states new york new york los angeles california boston massachusetts or houston texas according to multiple new studies the new york region is number one when it comes to worst traffic [Music] you could say our next story is about airpods not these we're talking about one of several electric modes of transportation that are being tested around the world's major cities this one is called you sky transport it runs on a test line that's a quarter mile long and the company that makes it hopes to expand from there one observer says this would probably be best in places where public transportation isn't fully developed it could still add to the congestion of major cities the transport network can be built at a fraction of the cost of a subway but it would still run around 10 million dollars per kilometer according to you sky and the company says it has numerous certification standards to meet which could mean a lot of safety tests but here's what success would look like for you sky [Music] the main advantage that it is completely environmental friendly so electrical driving and we don't utilize land [Music] i would say that this sport is the state of the art in technical sense we are giving mobility to people and i think that this is very important [Applause] [Music] [Applause] we want to ink first commercial contract before the end of this year so 2023 2024 we will be in the cities [Music] orbiting laboratory potential space tourist destination movie studio the international space station continues to take on new roles as it whirls around the earth the united states has paid about 100 billion dollars of the orbiter's 150 billion total cost and america spends three to four billion every year to maintain it so as it looks toward future missions farther away from the earth nasa is hoping for more private investment in the iss and two of the russian travelers who arrived there tuesday could be part of that they're shooting a feature film on board the station it's the first time that's ever been done and because it's risky and expensive a critic told the new york times it's not clear how many films will follow but there are other plans for space movies shot on location 64 years after the soviet union launched the first satellite into orbit russia is poised to claim another first the first full-length movie to be filmed in space i am not afraid of anything i just really want us to make a good movie and liftoff liftoff of soyuz ms-19 with an actress and her producer russian actress yulia parasild and the film's director lifted off in a soyuz spacecraft from the bike north cosmodrome in kazakhstan and will spend 12 days filming at the international space station the two have been training alongside real cosmonauts for months from centrifuge tests to parachute drills but it was the acronyms that nearly did them in during this time they tortured us they didn't beat us up though but made us memorize a lot of unknown abbreviations the u.s won the first base race by landing astronauts on the moon but it's losing this race to hollywood-eye space nasa was first to announce plans last year to film a movie on the space station starring tom cruise but a few months later russia space agency roscosmos announced its own plans and the head of roscosmos later invited the three big billionaire space barons to the filmmaker's launch with a special invitation for elon musk yes yes i already set kettle on heat we are awaiting him no word if musk jeff bezos or richard branson responded to the invitation bezos's blue origin is busy preparing to send hollywood royalty into space william shatner the original captain kirk from the star trek franchise who at 90 years old will be the oldest person to ever fly in space [Applause] the toymaker mattel has been making astronaut barbie dolls since 1965 and 56 years later the european space agency has sent barbie to zero gravity in honor of world space week space travel is expensive so barbie's aboard an airplane that simulates the zero gravity of space by diving after a sharp climb the doll is modeled after italian astronaut samantha christo ferretti who says she hopes it inspires more women to take up space careers let's just hope barbie doesn't get sick we hear those zero g flights can really test your mattel and plastic ain't the same as a cast iron stomach it's true that many dolls are tossed up and down by those who toy with them but zero g can make you toss your cookies hopefully barbie won't take it queasy lest critics call her barfy i'm carl azuz north pike high school we see you watching from the summit that's summit mississippi youtube.com cnn 10 is the place to request a mention on our show [Music]

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Published: Tue Oct 05 2021