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Age-ist here but i have memory of having to teach my grandmother how to use a mouse. >> and when your 2-year-old knows how to use it -- >> it is obvious that some of the senators have never been on facebook. >> absolutely. we know for a fact that some of the senators dont text or use the noi-- internet. and they do have staff that does but it is one thing for staff to prepare them and another thing to understand how this works. and that speaks to what dylan was talking about. the questions are a...

Friends and that app offers people an option to sync their text messages into the messaging app and to make it so that basically you can have one app where it has both your texts and your facebook messages in one place. we also allow people the option -- >> you can opt in or out of that? >> yes. >> is it easy to opt out? >> you have to affirmatively say you want to sync that information before we get access to it. >> unless you opt in, you dont collect that call and text history. >> that is corr...

Youre still here? were voya! we stay with you to and through retirement. i get that voya is with me through retirement, im just surprised it means in my kitchen. so, that means no breakfast? voya. helping you to and through retirement. welcome back to cnns coverage of facebooks ceo mark zuckerberg testifying before the senate. lets rejoin the senators. >> i think you agree this is going to be one of the major items of debate if we have to go forward and do this from the governmental standpoint...

Mr. zuckerberg, i assume facebooks been served with subpoenas from the special counsel muellers office. is that correct? >> yes. >> have you or anyone at facebook been interviewed by special counsels office? >> yes. >> have you been interviewed? >> i have not. >> others have? >> i believe so. >> i want to be careful. our work with the special counsel is confidential and i want to make sure in an open session im not real vealing something thats confidential. >> i want to make sure you have been c...

Welcome regulation? >> i think if its the right regulation, yes. >> do you know the europeans have it right? >> i think that they get things rig right. >> thats true. >> so would you work with us in terms of what regulations you think are necessary in your industry? >> absolutely. >> would you submit to us proposed regulations? >> yes. ill have my team follow up with you that way we can have this discussion across the different categories that i think this discussion needs to happen. >> looking ...

Counsel promised that you were taking steps to prevent facebook from having unwitting co-conspirators in russian interference. but these unverified divisive pages are on facebook today. they look a lot like what the russian agents used to spread propaganda during the 2016 election. are you able to confirm whether theyre russian-created groups? yes or no? >> are you asking about those specifically, senator? >> yes. >> senator, last week we actually announced a major change to our ads and pages po...

Ecosystem and in watching and kind of looking out and making sure that all of the members in our community are using these tools in a way thats going to be good and healthy. so at the end of the day, this going to be something where people will measure us on our results on this. its not that i expect anything i say here today to necessarily change peoples view but im committed to getting this right and i believe that over the coming years once we fully work all these solutions full, people will ...

Trying to get dpata and information to influence a process. so when i look at pallentier and whats theyre doing and whats app, which is another acquisition and i look at where you are from the 2011 consent decree and where you are today, i am thinking is this guy outfoxing the foxes or is he going along with what is a major trend in an information age to try to harvest information for political forces. and so my question to you is do you see that those applications, that those companies, pal i d...

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, ...

Issue that i think we and others in the tech industry have found challenging is that long privacy policies are very confusing and youre probably going to reduce the number of people who read it. one of the things that weve struggled with is to make something as simple as possible so people can understand it and as well as giving them controls in trying to use them, taking into account we dont expect most people will want to go through and read a full legal document. >> senator. >> thank you, mr....