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Shelby holiday and fox business reporter deidre bolton. lot to digest. one thing that struck me was at the very top, sheryl sandberg said on monday there will be a, quote unquote, very easy link at the top of your facebook page to delete apps, get a better handle on your privacy. first thing i thought, that's a great idea. what took so long? >> what took so long? you needed two strikes at the plate, which we have already seen. cambridge was the second strike. the first strike was this runup to our presidential election in which 125 million americans, half of our voting population, more than th...

To me that seems impossible. >> we've shared all of the stuff that was published publicly. we've let people know if they liked it or if they saw it. and certainly those questions need to be answered. we're very focused as you said. we should be. on going forward in the next election. it's one of the most important things we're focused on, fake accounts. fake accounts were the source of the problem. people think of fake accounts as often politically motivated and they are. but a lot of times they're financially motivated. people write outlandish headlines. we've gone after those economic incent...

2016 and what we're announcing today is that if you are running not just an election ad, but you are running an issue ad and we're going to publish a list of issues, we're going to verify who you are. you have to tell us your location, your identity. if you won't tell us that, we're not gonna let you run. we're gonna label all of those ads as political ads and there will be an archive anyone can look at which shows who paid for the ad, how much was spent and the demographics. >> dana: does that come now from what we know about russian influence in the election? how far back does it go? did fac...

Important. i'd like to talk through what they were. we announced two big changes this year. the first, which was the biggest, affected most of the news feeds is about meaningful social interaction. we care a lot that people have a good psychological experience on facebook. it turns out research shows when i'm interacting with a friend, so i like someone's photo or they do something, even if it's small, that's a very good for me psychologically and the other person psychologically because they feel more connected. but when i'm passively viewing content, news, other things, that's not as positiv...

We're investing in smarter technology. our goal is to make sure everyone can share safely on facebook. >> dana: data is a more valuable commodity now than anything in the world. and you talked a lot about responsibility and transparency. would facebook be willing to talk about how much each person is worth when it comes to the ads? just so they have some sense of what they're worth? >> well, let's talk about ads. you mentioned selling data. let's be clear. we do not sell people's data. we don't do it for ads or any other reason. we all don't give your data to any advertisers. we have an advert...