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Counsel promised that you were taking steps to prevent facebook from having unwitting co-conspirators in russian interference. but these unverified divisive pages are on facebook today. they look a lot like what the russian agents used to spread propaganda during the 2016 election. are you able to confirm whether they're russian-created groups? yes or no? >> are you asking about those specifically, senator? >> yes. >> senator, last week we actually announced a major change to our ads and pages policies that we will be verifying the identity of every single advertiser. >> i asked about these sp...

Ecosystem and in watching and kind of looking out and making sure that all of the members in our community are using these tools in a way that's going to be good and healthy. so at the end of the day, this going to be something where people will measure us on our results on this. it's not that i expect anything i say here today to necessarily change people's view but i'm committed to getting this right and i believe that over the coming years once we fully work all these solutions full, people will see real differences. >> i'm glad that you all have gotten that message. as we discussed in my o...

Trying to get dpata and information to influence a process. so when i look at pallentier and what's they're doing and what's app, which is another acquisition and i look at where you are from the 2011 consent decree and where you are today, i am thinking is this guy outfoxing the foxes or is he going along with what is a major trend in an information age to try to harvest information for political forces. and so my question to you is do you see that those applications, that those companies, pal i don't know -- pallentear and even what's app will fall into the same situation that you've just fa...

More personal things communicates with friends and i want to cut it off, i'm going to have to pay you in order not to send me using my personal information something that i don't want. that in essence is what i understood ms. sandberg to say. is that correct? >> yes, senator. to be clear, we don't offer an option to not pay for ads. we want to offer a free service that everyone can afford. >> therefore, you consider my personally identifiable data the company's data, not my data. is that it? >> no, senator. actually, the first line of our terms of service say that you control and own the infor...

Issue that i think we and others in the tech industry have found challenging is that long privacy policies are very confusing and you're probably going to reduce the number of people who read it. one of the things that we've struggled with is to make something as simple as possible so people can understand it and as well as giving them controls in trying to use them, taking into account we don't expect most people will want to go through and read a full legal document. >> senator. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> yesterday i gave the relatively harmless example that i'm communicating with my fri...