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Sharing? >> senator, this is an important question. i would differentiate between isps, which i consider to be the pipes of the internet and the platforms, like facebook or google or twitter, youtube, that are the apps or platforms on top of that. i think in general, the expectations that people have of the pipes are somewhat different from the platforms. so there might be areas where there needs to be more regulation in one and less in the other. i think there are going to be other places where...

Mention him while i was here with you. i havent printed that on my card yet. i will say that but i think we have that account as well. lots of ways to connect people. the information obviously is an important commodity. its what makes your business work. i get that however, i wonder about some of the collection efforts and maybe we can go through largely just each yes and no and then we will get back to more exaive discussion of this. do you collect user data through cross device tracking? >> se...

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 tradeoffs. if you want something without having to pay money for it, you are going to have to pay for it in some other way it seems to me. and thats what were seeing here. the...

Enforcing our content policies more broadly. so, actually, maybe if you are okay with it, i will go in the other order. so, beginning of company in 2004 in my dorm room. we didnt have the technology look at people were sharing. we basically had to enforce our content policies reactively. people could share what they wanted and then if someone in the community found it to be offensive or against our policies, they would flag it for us and we would look at it reactively. now, increasingly, we are ...

Elections, we were able to proactively remove tens of how far to sands of accounts that before they could contribute significant harm and the nature of these attacks though is that, you know, there are people in russia whose job it is to try to exploit our system and other internet systems and other systems as well. this is an arms race. they are going to keep on getting better at this. we need to keep on investing in getting better at this, too. one of the things i mentioned before we will have...

Responsibility to do so. >> do you agree with me that you better come up with different ways because this aint working? >> senator, i think in certain areas that is true. in other areas like the core part of what we do. right, if you think about at the most basic level, people come to facebook, instagram, whats app., messenger about 100 billion times a day to share a piece of content or a message with a specific set of people. and i think that that basic functionality, people understand because ...

Something like facebook dont know they are being tracked. how do you disclose your collection methods? is that all in this document that i would see and agree to before i entered into facebook? >> senator, there are two ways that we do this. one, we try to be exhaustive in the legal documents around the terms of service and privacy policies. but, more importantly, we try to provide inline controls in plain english people can understand. settings ortho shem at the top of the app. periodically, pe...

The people you have messaged? >> senator, no, i would probably not choose to do that publicly here. >> i think that may be what this is all about, your right to privacy, the limits of your right to privacy and how much you give away in modern america in the name of, quote, connecting people around the world. collecting, who theyre sending to and whether they asked me in advance permission to do that. is that a fair thing for facebook to suspect. >> everyone should have control over how their inf...

Does. whats app. collects very little information and i think is less likely to have the kind of issues because of the way that the services arc aarchitected. these are broad issues across the tech industry. >> well, i guess, given the track record where facebook is and why you are here today, i guess people would say that they didnt act boldly enough. and the fact that people like john bolton basically was an investor in "new york times" article earlier, i guess it was actually last month, that...

My personal information something that i dont understand? that in essence is what i understood ms. sandberg to say. is that correct? >> yes, senator. although to be clear, we dont offer an option today for people to pay to not show ads. we think offering an ad supported service is the most aligned with our mission of trying to help connect everyone in the world. pause we want to offer a free service that everyone can afford. thats the only way we can reach billions of people. >> so, therefore, y...