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We have the same rules in place to disclose political ad and issue ads as we do for tv and radio, as as well as disclaimers that you're going to take early action, as soon as june, i heard, before this election so people can view these ads including issue ads is that correct? >> that is correct. i just want to take a moment to thank you for your leadership on this. this is i think an important area for the whole history to move on. the two specific things we're doing, one is around transparency. now you're going to be able to go and click on any advertiser, any page on facebook and see al of t...

You post a photo. so i agree that in many places we could do better. but i think for the core of the service, it is quite clear. >> thank you, senator graham. >> i think you ak fcknowledged was a breach of trust. i explained it as if someone break in with a crowbar and took my stuff it's just as if the manager gave them the keys. it's still a break-in. i believe we have to have laws as sophisticated as the brilliant products you developed here and we haven't done that yet. one of the areas i focused on is the election. i appreciate the support you and twitter have supported the honest ads act....

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...

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...

Saying different messages to different types of people. that's a really important element of transparency. the other really important piece is around verifying every single advertiser who is going to be running political or issue ads. >> i appreciate that. and senator warner and i have also called on google and the other platforms to do the same. so memo to the rest of you, we have to get this done or we're going to have a patchwork of ads. i hope you'll be working with us to pass this bill, is that now on the subject of cambridge analytica, were these people, the 87 million people, users, con...