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Theyre going to do about chine chinese censorship -- >> for the record, i want to know what youll do about chinese censorship when they come to you. >> senator graham is up next. >> thank you. are you familiar with andrew bosworth? >> yes, i am. >> he said so we connect more people, maybe someone days in a terrorist attack. coordinated on our tools. the ugly truth is that we believe in connecting people so deeply that anything that allows us to connect more people more often is de facto good. do...

>> 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 i can sign up for? >> well, the second category that i was going to talk about -- >> im not talking about categories. im talking about is there real competition you face? car companies face a lot of k competiti competition. people stop buying that car and buy another one. is there an alternative to facebook in the private sector? >> yes, senator. the average a...

Fully understand something when its only written out in the long legal document. the stuff needs to be implemented in a way where people can understand it. where consumers can understand it. but that can also capture all the nuances of how these services work in a way that is not overly restrictive on providing the services. thats one. the second is around giving people complete control. this is the most important principle for facebook. every piece of content that you share on facebook, you own...

That he wrote it. if you looked at the comments on the internal discussion, the vast of the people did too. >> he said you did a bad job of communicating your displeasure. if he understood where you were at, he would have never said it to begin with. >> well, senator, we try to run our company in a way where people can express different opinions internally. >> well, this is an opinion that really disturbs me. if somebody worked for me that said this, id fire them. whos your biggest competitor? >...

Ground for hate speech against rohingya refugees. there has been genocide in myanmar. you say you used ai to find this. this is a type of content im referring to. it calls for the death of a muslim journalist. that threat went straight through your detection systems. it spread very quickly. and then it took attempt after attempt attempt, and the involvement of civil society groups to get you to remove it. why couldnt it be removed within 24 hours? >> senator, whats happening in myanmar is a terr...

They told us that they did this. in retrospect, it was clearly a mistake to believe them. and we should have followed up and done a full audit then. thats not a mistake well make. >> yes. you did that and apologized for it, but you didnt notify them. and do you think that you have an ethical obligation to notify 87 million facebook users? >> senator, when we heard back from cambridge analytica that they had told us that they werent using the data and deleted it, we considered it a closed case. i...

The websites that drive our internet economy make money. some have professed 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 paradeoffs. if you want something without having to pay money for it, youre going to have to pay for it in some other way it seems to me. thats what were seeing here. the ...

Ill speak to hate speech and then ill talk about enforcing or content policies more broadly. actually, maybe if youre okay with it, ill go in the other order. so from the beginning of the company in 2004, i started it in my tomorrow room. it was me and my roommate. we didnt have ai technology that could look at the content people were sharing, so we basically had to enforce our content policys reactively. people could share what they wanted and then if someone in the community found it to be off...

Hes ready to talk to the mueller investigators, but he will be guided by his personal counsel. cnn crime and justice reporter shimon prokupecz with me now on this. the president says, yes, absolutely, shimon, his lawyers they might tap the brakes there. >> reporter: thats sort of the message that, you know, we keep getting from different people, certainly from the president and some of his attorneys. and then in private conversations that our reporters had with people close to the president. you...

Be as thrilled about his enthusiasm. >> i think thats right. as we understand the timeline, ty cob and his team is beginning the negotiation with mueller and his team to set the priarameter of this thing, will he testify under oath, oral, written, when, where. the president just sort of photo bombed, if you will, those negotiations by saying, im here, im ready to do it, have at me. except if my lawyers tell me otherwise. >> does it really -- what hes saying, though, does this really have a negat...