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I get it. with a free and fair press you would expect they would do basic things like journalism and say something like hey, is there a predicate crime we are investigating here? >> tucker: yeah. >> what was the actual crime? i dont believe the collusion story at all. but the fact is even if there was collusion, collusion is not a crime. there was none of that. this is an embarrassment. journalism completely failed us. this is their most embarrassing moments in a series of embarrassing moments i...

Has already policed it. hate speech i am optimistic over a five to ten year period well have a.i. tools that can get into some of the linguistic nuances of different types of content to be more accurate in flagging our systems but today is just not there on that. a lot of this is reactive. people flag it to us. we have people look at it. until we get it more automated, there is a higher error rate that i am happy with. >> senator finestein. what is facebook doing to prevent foreign actor from in...

Sort of pressure on its stock and on its bottom line to do it in a more robust way on their own. and this is new. the fact that were just now -- since facebook was -- >> 2007. >> since 2007 now seeing the head of facebook on capitol hill for the first time tells you how much a gulf there has been through the very important industry and people who make laws. >> well take a break. and special coverage continues on "the lead" in just a moment. stay with us. why is dark magic so spell-bindingly good...

What is not hate speech? >> yes, mr. chairman. ill speak to hate speech and then ill talk about enforcing our content policies more broadly. so actually make if youre okay with it, ill go in the other order. so from the beginning of the company in 2004 i started in my dorm room, it was me and my roommate. we didnt have a.i. technology to look at the content people were sharing. so we basically had to enforce our content policies reaction ti -- reactively. people could share what they wanted and ...

Implement the exact same regulation, i guess it would be different because we have different sensibilities in the u.s. as do other countries. we committed to rolling out the controls and affirmative consent and the special controls around sensitive technology like face recognition that are required in gdpr, were doing that around the world. i think its worth discussing whether we should have something similar in the u.s., but what i would like to say today is that were going to go forward and im...

More personal things communicates with friends and i want to cut it off, im going to have to pay you in order not to send me using my personal information something that i dont want. that in essence is what i understood ms. sandberg to say. is that correct? >> yes, senator. to be clear, we dont offer an option to not pay for ads. we want to offer a free service that everyone can afford. >> therefore, you consider my personally identifiable data the companys data, not my data. is that it? >> no, ...

Consumer privacy, and naturally i know you understand that. at the same time these stories touch on the very foundation of the internet economy and the way the web sites that drive our internet economy make money. some profess themselves shocked -- shocked that companies like facebook and google share user data with advertisers. did any of these individuals ever stop to ask themselves why facebook and google dont charge for access? nothing in life is free. everything involves trade-offs. if you ...

General counsels facebook being a breeding ground for hate speech for rohingya refugees. and you say you use a.i. to find this. this is the type of content im referring to. it calls for the death of a muslim journalist. now that threat went straight through your detection systems, it spread very quickly and then it took attempt after attempt after attempt and involvement of civil society groups to get to you remove it. why couldnt it be removed within 24 hours? >> senator, whats happening is mi ...

Around the complexity of laying out this long privacy policy. its hard to say that people fully understand something when its only written out in a long legal document. the stuff needs to be implemented in a way where people can actually understand it, consumers can understand it but can also capture all the nuances of how these services work thats not overly restrictive on providing the services. thats one. the second is around giving people complete control. this is the most important principl...

>> in different ways, different parts -- >> if i buy a ford and it doesnt work well and i dont like it, i can buy a chevy. if im upset with facebook, whats the equivalent product that i can go sign up for? >> well, theres the second category i was going to talk about are -- >> im not talking about categories. im talking about is there real competition you face. car companies, if they make a defective car, it gets out in the world and people buy another one. is there an alternative to facebook? >...