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Conservative fever dreams that google would be actually doing something like this. are you surprised by it? and what can be done? >> a, am not surprised, google is denying it, but there is extensive evidence that they did it. and they did it in two ways. one way was after the election as he mentioned a number of excitable left-wing google executives and employees tried to squeeze breitbart and other conservative outlets into this hate speech category. they then confessed that after a lot of effort that was really tough. so they also did a two pronged approach, and having their ad people contac...

Google would be actually doing something like this. are you surprised by it? and what can be done?e? >> a, i am not surprised, google is denying it, but there is extensive evidence that they did it. and they did it in two ways. one way was after the election as you mentioned a number of excitable left-wing google executives and employees tried to squeeze breitbart and other conservative outlets into this hate speech category. they then confessed that after a lot of effort that was really tough. so they also did a two pronged approach, and having their ad people contact customers and tell them ...

Chief security officer wanted to publish a transparency paper, and every mention of russia was taken out. was encouraged not to put russia in that transparency paper. do you regret not being more transparent at the time or not getting -- not being more vocal about it at the time? >> you know, i wish that we understood the issues sooner. i wish we understood it before 2016, before the russians tried to do these information operations in the first place. now i do think sometimes people say, well, how did you not know this? and i think in some of these cases, it's a really big deal to come out an...

On something saying that, i want to be really sure that's the case. >> quite a few revelations in this case. one referenced a decision to keep up a trump post that many considered fell under the hate speech category. in part of this revelation, it said one of the reasons you kept it up is because you were worried about a conservative backlash. facebook is under pressure from the democrats and republicans. the government in general. are leaders making content decisions based on appeasing political leaders? >> no. >> reporter: did they in that situation? >> no. they didn't. i was involved in tho...

Time? >> you know, i wish that we understood the issues sooner. i wish we understood it before 2016 before the russians tried to do these information operations in the first place. i do think sometimes people say how did you not know this? i think in some of these cases it's a really big deal to say that a nation state is behind something. before our company puts a stamp on somebody saying that i want to be sure that that is the case. >> one reference is the decision to keep up the trump post that many consider fell under the hate speech category. part of it said one reason your team decided t...