00:06Do you have an interest in social media?
00:08Not even a little bit.
00:09Look, I'm an investigative reporter,
00:11and that guy and this company are playing an unprecedented role in our lives.
00:15Start with a gentle nod to show engagement.
00:18Yeah, not so much a little softer.
00:22Yeah.
00:24This is the journal's new Facebook detective.
00:27He's not looking for trouble.
00:29He's hunting for it.
00:30You can't use my name, and this is all off the record.
00:32What would you like to talk about?
00:33I ran classifiers on political groups where 30% of content hits multiple risk factors.
00:38Hang on, I don't understand what you're saying.
00:39Aren't you a tech reporter?
00:40Ish.
00:41Ish?
00:43I just want to be clear.
00:45You love your work.
00:45Yes.
00:47Connecting people, it's a virtuous mission.
00:49Because some people are awkward,
00:51and they get to be their best self when they're alone at their keyboard.
00:54So what's the problem?
00:55Something changed.
00:56Cops are being assholes because I'm white.
00:59I wanted to find out who radicalized my friend.
01:01And?
01:02We did.
01:05Facebook wants you to stay on the site for as long as possible.
01:09And two years ago, the algorithm was changed.
01:11Wait.
01:12Mark.
01:12We're trying to address hate speech, and we're going to amplify and turbocharge it.
01:18The debate is over.
01:22Why haven't you printed it?
01:23Because you didn't give me a story, you told me a story.
01:25Well, you're useless.
01:26That's not the first time I've heard that.
01:28I want the internal documents.
01:30I want proof.
01:31She's going to get sued into small pieces.
01:33We have 102 hours to get everything.
01:36Evidence of drug cartels.
01:38And a study that hasn't been made public on Instagram and teen mental health.
01:43He has a source?
01:44He won't give me his name, but he works here.
01:46Did you know this was happening?
01:48I want the big story, and then I want the bigger story.
01:51I promise these sources they are going to be safe.
01:53With each new file she opens, she's creating a footprint.
01:56How hard is it to get powerful people to change something they're doing?
02:00You have to cause pain.
02:01You have to make it hurt.
02:04Enough!
02:05People can post what they want.
02:06We're not the rest.
02:07We're the public square.
02:08Are you crazy?
02:09You're like a crossing guard standing in front of a school, but you're not doing anything with your arms.
02:12So the cars are just plowing down the children.
02:18You know what you wrote in that girl's life.
02:20Well, she's going to be fine.
02:22No.
02:23She won't be.
