00:00Do you have an interest in social media?
00:02Not even a little bit. Look, I'm an investigative reporter.
00:05And that guy and this company are playing an unprecedented role in our lives.
00:09Start with a gentle nod to show engagement.
00:12Yeah, not so much, a little softer.
00:16Yeah.
00:18This is the Journal's new Facebook detective.
00:21He's not looking for Travon. He's hunting for it.
00:24You can't use my name and this is all off the record.
00:26Who would you like to talk about?
00:27I ran classifiers on political groups where 30% of content hits multiple risk factors.
00:32Hang on, I don't understand what you're saying.
00:33Aren't you a tech reporter?
00:34Ish.
00:35Ish?
00:37I just want to be clear.
00:38You love your work.
00:39Yes.
00:41Connecting people, it's a virtuous mission.
00:43Because some people are awkward and they get to be their best self when they're alone at their keyboard.
00:48So what's the problem?
00:49Something changed.
00:50I wanted to find out who radicalized my friend.
00:56And?
00:57We did.
00:59Facebook wants you to stay on the site for as long as possible.
01:03And two years ago, the algorithm was changed.
01:05Wait.
01:06Mark.
01:07We're trying to address hate speech and we're going to amplify and turbocharging.
01:12The debate is over.
01:16Why haven't you printed it?
01:17Because you didn't give me a story, you told me a story.
01:19Oh, you're useless.
01:20That's not the first time I've heard that.
01:50I want the internal documents.
01:51I want to make powerful people to change something they're doing.
01:54You have to cause pain.
01:55You have to make it hurt.
01:57Enough!
01:59People can post what they want.
02:00We're not the ref.
02:01We're the public square.
02:02Are you crazy?
02:03You're like a crossing guard standing in front of a school, but you're not doing anything with your arms.
02:06So the cars are just plowing down the children.
02:12You know what you wrote in that girl's life.
02:14Well, she's going to be fine.
02:16No.
02:17She won't be.
02:19She won't be.
