Jesse Carey

where you have kids who have developed like eating disorders and things and they and they attribute it to these social media algorithms we had on um a a woman her name is francis haugen and so she was a former executive at facebook at the time meta now

And she, you know, the social network too, that's actually coming out.

Um, she, that's actually based on her story.

So, so it'll be kind of, I don't know if she's involved with the film, but, um, but we got to talk to her and she worked for Facebook's counter espionage team.

And so this is around like 2019.

And basically they had said like, Hey, misinformation is becoming a problem.

You got to, you know, we'll assemble a team and try to figure out some solutions to this.

Well, what she found was that, you know, because they have all this powerful, you know, data tracking stuff, that most of these kind of hostile actors, for a lot of them, whether it was misinformation or just straight up, like...

Excuse me, like, fake accounts, like, trying to stir people up.

Like, someone going into, like, let's say it was... Kind of like troll farming or something?

So, like, let's say there was groups.

They were target, like, mom groups.

They were target groups that were, like, you know, advocates for the law enforcement community.

And they would go in there and just kind of stir up trouble.

And it looked like, you know...

bob the you know the red sox fan who's just really passionate about whatever you know issue is is kind of the hot thing yeah when in reality her team was able to find that these were foreign troll farms right the main one was and again i feel i if i'm monopolizing any of this let me know we're learning i'm enjoying this is why we have you here this is great

So the main troll farm was called the Internet Research Agency.

It sounds really, you know, ambiguous.

That's nice.

Yeah, it does, doesn't it?