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How little hate speech there is now compared to a few years ago shows we're moving in the right direction. >> i want to go to the issue of how to regulate facebook. the founder and ceo wrote this, mark zuckerberg. he said, similar to balancing other social issues, i don't believe private companies should make all of the decisions on their own. that's why we have advocated for updated internet regulations for several years now. we're committed to doing the best work we can. at some level the right body to address tradeoffs is our democratically elected congress. on one hand this is a very reaso...

Presence of politics on people's facebook experiences. i hope that's useful context for what we did and didn't do and what we're doing going forward. >> why did you lift any of them, any of those procedures considering what former president trump was doing and saying and acting at the time. he was a firehose of misinformation. so why role back any of those security provisions? you clearly rolled back some. you want to dispute you didn't roll them all back. that's fine with me. why did you roll back any of them? >> as i said, some of them were very, very blunt tools, scooping up legal, enjoyabl...

Moderator of "washington week," david french, the senior editor of "the dispatch" and former democratic congresswoman, donna edwards. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." ness from >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with chuck todd. good sunday morning. from our nbc news bureau in los angeles. every day it seems we're learning how fragile our democracy is. just this past week the senate judiciary committee released a report about how close we came to losing that democracy in the weeks after the election. th...

Permitted on our platform. we bear down aggressively on hate speech. because of the 40,000 people we employ to do this work, 40,000 people is more than twice the number of staffers who work on capitol hill. we've invested $13 billion in this integrity work to bear down on misinformation and hate speech. again, for context, that's more than the total revenues of twitter over the last four years. that's actually been successful. hate speech, the prevalence of hate speech, the presence of hate speech on facebook now stands at 0.05%. that means for every 10,000 bits of content you'll see on facebo...

At the end of the day, i don't think anyone wants a private company to adjudicate on these really difficult tradeoffs between free expression on the one hand and moderating or removing content on the other, about which, as you know, there's fundamental political disagreement. the right thinks we take down too much content, we sensor too much content. the left thinks we don't take down now. we're caught in the middle in this political debate. in the end, lawmakers have to resolve that themselves. >> nick clegg, vice president of facebook. appreciate you coming on and sharing facebook's perspect...