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Them as a stanford analytica. do you agree? >> senator, i have not heard that. >> do you think pallentear taught cambridge analytica how to do these tactics? >> snorks i dont know. >> do you think pallentear has ever scraped data from facebook? >> senator, im not aware of that. >> okay. do you think that during the 2016 campaign as cam bridbridg n analytica was providing -- >> we provide --

Of the facebook platform. can you confirm whether or not this is true? >> senator, i want to make sure i get this accurate. it would probably be better to have my team follow up? >> you dont know? >> i know that people use cookies on the internet and that you can probably correlate activity between sessions. we do that for a number of reasons, including security and including measuring ads to make sure that the ad experiences are the most effective, which of course people can opt out of. i want ...

>> mr. zuckerberg, would you do that differently today, in response to senator nelsons question, having to do it over? >> yes. >> this may be your first appearance before congress, but its not the first time that facebook has faced tough questions about its privacy policies. wired magazine recently noted you have a 14-year history of apologizes for ill-advised decisions regarding user policy, not unlike the one you just made now in your opening statement. after more than a decade of promises to ...

More. >> thank you. i just think part of this is when people dont know theyre data has been breached, that is a huge problem and i think we get to solutions faster when we get the information out there. thank you and we look forward to passing this bill. wed love to pass it before the election on the honest ads and looking forward to better disclosure this election. thank you. >> thank you, senator blunt is up -- >> senator amy clklobuchar aski questions of mark zuckerberg during the joint heari...

>> i dont think that the average person likely reads that whole document. but i think there are different ways that we can communicate that and have a responsibility to do so. >> do you agree with me you better come up with different ways because this aint working? >> well, senator, i think in certain areas that is true and i think in other areas like the core part of what we do, if you think about at the most basic level, people come to facebook, instagram, whats app, messenger, about a hundred...

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 ...

Challenging. to the specifics about those apps, im not really that familiar with what pallentear does? whats app collects very little information and i think is less likely to have the kind of issues because of the way the service is architected but i think certainly these are broad issues across the tech industry. >> i guess given the track record where facebook is and why youre here today, i guess facebook would say they didnt act boldly enough. and the fact that people like john bolton basica...

Up with you on anything about the specific past stats that would be interesting. >> i was going to assume that sitting here today you have no idea and if im wrong on that, youre telling me, i think, that youre able to supply those figures to us, at least as of this point. >> mr. chairman, i will have my team follow up with you on what information we have. >> okay, but right now you have no certainty of how much of that is going on, right? okay. facebook collects massive amounts of data from cons...

>> senator krk y, can you repea specific question? >> during the 2016 campaign, cambridge analytica worked with the trump campaign to refine tactics and were facebook employees involved in that? >> senator, i dont know that our employees were involved with cambridge analytica, although i know we did help out the trump campaign overall in sales support over all in the way we help out with other campaigns. >> so maybe thats something your investigation will find out. >> senator, i can certainly ha...