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Record. procedure sir. >> chairman grassley, chairman nun, ranking member nelson and the rest of the committee. we face a number of important issues around privacy, safety and democracy. you'll have some hard questions for me to answer right think. before i talk about the steps we're taking to address them. i want to talk about how we got here. facebook is an idealistic and optimistic company. for most of our existence, we focussed on all the good that connecting people can do, and as facebook has grown, people everywhere have gotten a powerful new tool for staying connected to the people they...

Fashion. now facebook changed its policies after that, but not before president obama kwraoudz all the data. probably still has it. and then you look at the algorithm they're using. they should be based on first amendment free speech rights. that's a question we'll have for mark zuckerberg. and so these are the issues of our day. are they a common carrier in the information age? are they a digital platform that just provides a wonderful service for free? or is it really for free, given that they monetize the data. there's an exchange that occurs here. are consumers fully informed about that ex...

He's created an incredible platform that's changed the world and connected people. but with that comes enormous responsibility on a company of that size to do what it says it's going to do. follow the rules, follow the law, do what it says it will do to help consumers. remember, the lens is bigger than just facebook. lot of other companies out there engaged in actions that consumers are concerned about. >> dana: will you be asking companies like twitter and google to come testify, too? >> i think there are issues that come to our attention from our consumers, our voters, about those companies ...

Commission when there were issues about data, data security, data usage. did they follow the terms and conditions? by the way, does anybody read those little things that say, i agree to all the principles and multipages of legal ease about what they can and can't do? i think consumers are left in the dark about what happens with their data until something like this happens where a violation of public trust occurs. that's our job then to get to the facts, get to the truth, then come to a decision about what kind of public policy changes need to be made, if any. >> dana: i'm sure you're familiar...