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Consumer privacy, and naturally i know you understand that. at the same time these stories touch on the very foundation of the internet economy and the way the web sites that drive our internet economy make money. some profess 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 don't charge for access? nothing in life is free. everything involves trade-offs. if you want something without having to pay money for it, you're going to have to pay for it in some other...

General counsel's facebook being a breeding ground for hate speech for rohingya refugees. and you say you use a.i. to find this. this is the type of content i'm referring to. it calls for the death of a muslim journalist. now that threat went straight through your detection systems, it spread very quickly and then it took attempt after attempt after attempt and involvement of civil society groups to get to you remove it. why couldn't it be removed within 24 hours? >> senator, what's happening is mi myanmar is a terrible tragedy. >> we all agree with that. >> okay.

Challenging. to the specifics about those apps, i'm not really that familiar with what pallentear does? what's app collects very little information and i think is less likely to have the kind of issues because of the way the service is architected but i think certainly these are broad issues across the tech industry. >> i guess given the track record where facebook is and why you're here today, i guess facebook would say they didn't act boldly enough. and the fact that people like john bolton basically was an investor in a the "new york times" article earlier, that bolton was concerned that am...

Up with you on anything about the specific past stats that would be interesting. >> i was going to assume that sitting here today you have no idea and if i'm wrong on that, you're telling me, i think, that you're able to supply those figures to us, at least as of this point. >> mr. chairman, i will have my team follow up with you on what information we have. >> okay, but right now you have no certainty of how much of that is going on, right? okay. facebook collects massive amounts of data from consumers, including content, networks, contact lists, device information, location and information f...

>> senator krk y, can you repea specific question? >> during the 2016 campaign, cambridge analytica worked with the trump campaign to refine tactics and were facebook employees involved in that? >> senator, i don't know that our employees were involved with cambridge analytica, although i know we did help out the trump campaign overall in sales support over all in the way we help out with other campaigns. >> so maybe that's something your investigation will find out. >> senator, i can certainly have my team get back to you on any specifics there i don't know sitting here today. >> have you hea...