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>> he could have spent time preparing for next season. he didn't win manager of the year. i don't know what they are doing. we have to set our expectations as low as possible next year. >> i think it may be fourth place. hopefully fourth place if we're lucky. jonathan, how is the white house responding to this ongoing blue wave. we know the president is throwing out conspiracy theories left and right. but there is little doubt, is there not, inside the white house, this was a drumming. is there any talk, does anyone believe they can get the president to modify his behavior moving forward so re...

Sides of the aisle who are quite cynical and realistic. how do you think that will go? >> mark's happy to go to congress because mark wants to answer every question people have about the service we offer. we really believe in social experiences. i think what happened here is, we were very focused on creating that. good things happen when you can share your information, right? you can find your friend's birthdays. you can share events with them. and we were really focused on that. and we weren't focused enough on being pro-active enough. mark is happy to say here's what we weren't doing and her...

Own understanding of what was going on. it seems to me the idealism is certainly, i'm not somebody who wakes up on the sunny side of the street, but i do think the cynicism is real when it comes to how human nature has worked. we are more tribal than before. if you look at the gallop numbers, even since facebook started, but the more connected we are through technology, actually the more tribal we've become. and i think that's one of the things people are looking ats. there's actually evil that can be done, too. >> and we did not pay enough attention to that, and now we are getting ahead of th...

Answering you yes. so i think finally facebook is moving in that direction. but i also think there's still a distinction. i think they're just telling us more about how they're using our data. they're not necessarily changing too much. they're just being more open about their process. it's a step in the right direction. >> ed: something el that struck me, sheryl sandberg saying they don't sell data. what do they do? >> that might be misleading. what facebook makes money on is they can go to advertisers and say, hey, we know about the users on our platform and we can reach them in all these var...

Is out there. we're never gonna get it back. i'm glad dana asked about election meddling. the point about them creating a transparent feature on your news feed monday. that will not notify people if they liked or followed russian bots or russian pages. >> ed: in the 2016 election. >> they are not transparent about that at all. she did make a comment they did turn over a lot of ads and information. publicly we only know about 18 of the 470 accounts set up by the russian bot accounts. i spoke to a lot of americans who handed over personal information. they have no idea. they had no idea they wer...