Is Congress Equipable to Deal With Facebook?

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Former employee francis is distraught with state of public debate outside the company. She doesn't think facebook can regulate itself, and that someone needs to step in. "I came forward at great personal risk because i believe we still have time to act"

Facebook kicked off the week with an outage and followed that up today with a whistleblower testifying before Congress. The Wall Street Journal’s Jeff Horwitz explains how the company may have misled the public about the dangers of its social networks.

Today’s show was produced by Will Reid, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and edited and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.

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