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A foreign actor couldnt donate to a u.s. campaign. why should they be able to buy ads? >> so as we did our investigation, the fact that the currency that were used to buy was part of what helped us find them. youll have to remember that we run a large ad program. and theres lots of very legitimate russian businesses doing legitimate business. we certainly would never take down anything in one currency. >> turning to free speech and fake fuse. how do you define fake news? >> this is an interestin...

Myself so i saver this moment. i could share it with just my mom because even when no one else cares what i do, my mom always cares and im grateful for that. or i could share it with the whole world. when i make that decision, that information needs to be shared with who i want to share. so privacy for us is not just adhering to the law. thats a basic. privacy is making sure you feel secure sharing on facebook. >> but then you use and monetize my personal data. >> we sell ads and enable people t...

The fact she can target only to them is why she can afford to run her business. e with want to target people who want to study a language. theres always the possibility for abuse and we want to make sure we do all we can to shut that down. but the targeting that everyone has access to is important. >>. >> the trump campaign? >> we will be releasing the targeting for those ads. so again, were going to be fully transparent. >> turning to a couple d.c. questions. a lot of sudden issen interest here...

Society and our values. and whats important about these meetings and all the work were doing together is that if we all work together, well never solve everything completely, but we can make it a lot harder to harm us and preserve the right of people to express themselves. >> most of the coverage has been about the ads. even more nonad material from accounts came into play in the election. should that be used? >> we talked to them yesterday. we gave them now so far the ads plus the pages they li...

In washington where sheryl sandberg is is speaking. >> i talked about how were were fully cooperating with their investigation. and what we said to them is were giving them our piece, but they can understand the whole picture because they have access to much more information. so what i reiterated is in those meet sgs we think its important they get the whole picture and they explain that transparentally to the american public. so when they wanted to make a decision to release those ads, we stand...

Doing is working with other companies so that when anyone identifies a threat, we can get them off our platforms. >> misery loves cane? >> its imported efforts need to be coordinates. >> the other thing we talked about are the things facebook is taking ob these problems. were investing heavily in machine learning because we really have to go after fake accounts. were hiring 4,000 more people to increase our oversight of our ads and content. >> but compared to 2 billion users. >> well get there. ...

They want. >> yes, and we said that yesterday. we want to give them the material. we. want the full picture to be understood. we dont want this kind of foreign interference. and in order to e prevent it, were awl going to have to fully cooperate across the board. >> these ads were taken down because they were from fake accounts. if they were from real accounts, would you let them run? >> this is a really important question because these ads are divisive. and they are down and the pages are down ...

Marsha runs an ad. she ran an ad, which is launching her campaign for senate. in that ad, theres a lot of positions that people dont like. that i dont like. im a staunch supporter of planned parenthood. planned parenthood is not sell issing baby body parts. but the question is should divisive political issue ads run. >> it sounds like you would be fine with it. >> our answer is yes. when you cut off speech for one person, you cut off speech for all people. and the content is really important. so...

Stuff down. we know enforcement is hard and we need to do better. but a lot of what we allow on facebook is people expressing themselves. the thing about free expression is when you allow free expression, you allow free expression. that means you allow people to say things you dont like and go against your core believes. its not just content, its ads. because when youre thinking about political speech, ads are really important. it is a super interesting week to thinkihink about this becaust happ...

>> heres a different way to say it. when did you realize you had a problem. >> we were very focused on those threats. and then we started to hear the rumors. this is in around the election itself of a different kind of attack. which wasnt im going to get your e e-mail and get into your account and take all your stuff and steal your data. it was a more subtle, even if they are just as important, which was posting in an inauthentic way to try to be deceptive and devisive. which was what people wil...