Facebook Executives’ Response to Whistleblower

well folks much like hillary clinton's

emails in 2016 one of the most divisive

things that you could talk about from

the 2020 election has to do with hunter

biden's laptop and the hunter biden

laptop story is now surfacing again

thanks to the connection of hunter

biden's laptop story

and potential censorship by the team

that francis hogan worked on at facebook

francis hogan of course is the

whistleblower in the facebook testimony

that we heard from congress today about

the failures of facebook especially with

its facebook algorithm

and folks

in this video we're going to talk about

facebook's response so let's catch you

up to speed all right so really really

quick brief overview here on hunter

biden's laptop and i apologize to the

left if i miss something and i apologize

to the right if i miss something talking

about things this decisive is honestly

stupid because i probably am not going

to make people who care about both sides

really happy because i'm going to give a

brief overview i'm not going to go super

deep on this but i want the gist of why

this is coming up again to be known so

that way we can talk about what the real

issue at hand is so let's give this a

shot back in 2020 the new york post

wrote an article on email supposedly

obtained from hunter biden's laptop

who's joe biden's son hunter biden had

allegedly left his laptop at a repair

shop in delaware in april of 2019 and

the store owner is apparently and

technically legally blind and said he

tried to reach hunter biden to return

his laptop numerous times before finally

taking the laptop and deciding to look

at the laptop itself

apparently when he looked through the

laptop despite being legally blind there

was a big reveal that came out that

essentially had to do with an email from

april of 2019 that said dear hunter

thank you for inviting me to dc and

giving me the opportunity to meet your

father and spend some time together it's

really an honor and pleasure reads the

email and apparently this is written by

an advisor to the board of burisma

hunter had also been a board member of

this company since

2014 and the big issue here is wait a

minute is hunter biden

leveraging the fact that he's joe

biden's son to get political favors and

set up meetings now on the left we hear

this is not real on the right we hear oh

no it's real in fact even political has

referenced that these emails exist there

are potentially videos that came from

allegedly joe or hunter biden's laptop

showing hunter biden

having sex with a woman and then talking

about things and it's clearly hunter

biden this story goes deep the left

argues back and says well wait a minute

of course hunter and hunter's attorney

say they have no idea and just say you

can't credit rudy giuliani because sure

rudy giuliani may have been involved in

releasing and breaking this story and

maybe rudy giuliani's credibility has

been you know called into question

recently but the right says that doesn't

take away from the fact that the story

happened

and why does this particular story

matter because individuals believe

that if this story had proper media

coverage the results of the 2020

election which were heavily disputed

could have potentially been different

this is why the left calls this fake

news and a conspiracy theory and this is

why left-leaning big tech also played a

role in censoring this hunter biden

story because it was deemed to be

misinformation and there were campaigns

to limit misinformation in the 2020

election except most of the

misinformation that was limited was

information that would have favored the

right or donald trump's campaign and

this is where people on the left say

well that's just because the people on

the right are the ones sharing all the

misinformation and the people on the

right are like no that's because y'all

are big tech and big tech is donating

big dollars to joe biden

and now

i'm going to take a step back from this

because you could see how insanely crazy

this stuff gets and all i'm going to say

here is as crazy as i look right now

i ran for governor in

2021 in the recall election in

california

now i play second after larry elder to

replace gavin newsom and i'm very proud

of that i got a lot of votes very very

proud of that

but i lost

and in my campaign i realized that when

i made my campaign announcement

facebook donated over 30 million dollars

on behalf of gavin newsom to gavin

newsom's campaign and my announcement

post just happened to get deleted from

instagram

and when fox news reached out they're

like oh

that was a mistake sorry and they put my

post back up

twitter

refuses to verify me despite meeting all

of the eligibility criteria to be

verified

and i'm also running against an existing

democratic establishment governor who in

the future wants to become president who

has big relations with corporate tech

so

i'm not trying to say i'm on the left or

right

i'm just trying to say

what i'm literally saying there's a lot

going on with this hunter biden email

stuff

and when i ran my campaign there were

definitely some things that were sus

okay definitely suspect

now the right side calls the hunter

biden email scandal a big smoking gun of

unfairness in

elections which fairness is actually

exactly what francis hogan talked about

as a member of wait for the facebook

civic integrity team

the facebook integrity team civic entire

egg integrity team was something that uh

francis was a part of she's the

whistleblower who talked and testified

in congress today about what facebook

was doing wrong how facebook's

algorithms are unhealthy for children

for younger girls and potentially so

political divisiveness by encouraging

extreme or outrageous content to be

showed to people who were who are most

likely to share it so in other words

somebody who's on the left is most

likely to share outrageous content that

benefits the left somebody on the right

is most likely to share outrageous

content that benefits the right and so

really the videos and articles that get

shared aren't videos that try to be

neutral they're the ones that get you

really pissed off and want to want to

share that information with your side

and that algorithms pick up on they see

that engagement and share that with

users more and more and more i

understand this because i am a youtube

content creator and as a youtube content

creator i know that if you are likely to

share a video my video is likely to do

exponentially better than if you do not

share the video but it has to be

legitimate share because it goes beyond

just the first share i could ask you to

share the video but it does does no good

if the next person doesn't watch it or

doesn't share it as well it's really

when you get the chain of shares that's

when videos go viral and that's how they

circulate their communities over and

over again now

what does this hunter biden laptop have

to do with francis well francis being

part of the facebook

civic integrity team

apparently links her

to being part of the team that censored

the biden laptop story from facebook and

so now folks are calling the credibility

of francis hogan into question since she

was part of that team where she's

encouraging fairness yet apparently

might have been on the team that

censored the hunter biden laptop story

during the 2020 election now facebook

has responded to the hearing today

facebook says that francis hogan was a

less than two-year employee had no

direct reports or knowledge of how

algorithms work at facebook never

attended decision point meetings with

corporate level executives testified six

times to not working on the subject

matter she was being uh essentially

subpoenaed upon not subpoenaed upon was

testifying upon

facebook does not agree with the

conclusion she makes and facebook says

yeah we should have some standard rules

for the internet but

what's really important here is that now

all of a sudden

this entire facebook leak and facebook

crisis

has evolved and this is the big bottom

line so if you're confused here here's

the big bottom line

i broke down what francis said this

morning and i gave my summary thoughts i

caught you up on the hunter biden laptop

story

what's happening now though

is media specifically social media

whether it's algorithmic or not whether

it's twitter youtube or facebook or

whatever

is turning the story into a story about

hunter biden's laptop and the story of

censorship again

people who have more right leaning

inclinations are likely to call the

francis hogan debate over facebook

censorship and that anybody who wants to

change the algorithm at facebook wants

to censor content and the way it should

be shared

and media on the other side is saying no

this is not about censorship this is

about protecting people which of course

just re-aggravates the arguments on the

other side that

people on the right say well people on

the right or people in general should

have the right to protect themselves and

we don't need to be mommy and daddy for

them they should determine themselves so

basically if you talk about facebook at

this point

if your pro changes to the algorithm

apparently you're a liberal and if your

anti changes to the algorithm you're pro

your anti-censorship and you're on the

right that's kind of how things are

being cast right now and i think it's

really a mistake because we're doing

what we usually do in politics again

we're not talking about the actual issue

at hand it's like the issue is here in

the middle which i'm going to tell you

what i think the issue is and then it's

kind of like here's a red herring oh the

right says this and the left says this

let's take politics out of it for a

moment

and come to what i believe is a fair

conclusion

this facebook crisis debate is a debate

over the fact that when algorithms make

decisions in terms of what content

algorithms show us algorithms are more

likely to show us content that sparks

outrage and emotion we can agree on that

and something that is shareable why

because a it leads to more views and

shares which therefore beget more views

b it leads to more creators making

content around that information because

when creators see that certain content

gets more views more creators talk about

that situation c

we potentially amplify negative feelings

because feelings of negativity travel in

a more viral fashion than feelings of

positivity this is of course quite the

opposite of what we feel though when we

go on instagram and we're surrounded by

only the most beautiful pictures so you

kind of have to bisect this a little bit

when you go on instagram you're shown

the most beautiful or sexy pictures in

general but when it comes to politics

you're generally shown only the most

negative information and algorithms do

perpetuate this we know this

and d

these algorithms lead to more

profitability for facebook currently

somewhere around 35 dollars per every

three months per

user

so

now the question is how much should we

allow algorithms to cater the content

that we want to see should we go back to

seeing content chronologically like when

you go to the youtube subscriptions feed

which a lot of people don't use maybe 10

of people use

if you go to the youtube subscription

feed you will see videos chronologically

try it go try click subscriptions right

now and then see like ah compare the

content that's in your subscription feed

to your homepage page what's more

engaging do you get burnt out scrolling

through the subscriptions feed versus

the front page where you're like oh i

gotta watch it i can watch that right

or should we have a more clear option to

do that on twitter as well as facebook

like we have on youtube now we have that

on twitter and it's called the

notifications tab that's one way where

if you have notifications on for

everyone you could just sort by

basically content chronologically i

actually use that i don't like my

catered content i like all the content

because i want to see it all and i want

to see it chronologically

so the question really becomes should

facebook give you that option and then

how do we handle the fact that we have

young girls who uh basically uh are

asked

that uh you're uh well here here's the

statistic

32 percent of survey teen british girls

say facebook helped worsen their body

image facebook and instagram and 13 of

british users with with suicidal

thoughts already linked their thoughts

back to facebook or instagram right

do our parents responsible for helping

intervene here is our health care system

responsible providing mental health for

this or the british healthcare system is

facebook responsible for this that's the

real debate that we should be having not

censorship hunter biden or otherwise

but that's the way things work in this

world so i hope you appreciate this

video if you did consider sharing and

subscribing and folks we'll see in the

next one thank you so much

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