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Question. cambridge analytica wasn't using our services in 2015 as far as we can tell. one of the questions i asked our team as soon as i learned about this. why did we wait until we found out about the reports last month to ban them? it's as of the time we learned about their activity in 2015. they weren't an advertiser and weren't running pages. we actually had nothing to ban. >> thank you. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator feinstein. now senator hatch. >> this the most intense public scrutiny i have seen sings the microsoft hearing that i chaired back in the late 1990s. the rec...

Of comments. vast amount of people did too. >> did you a poor job as co communicating your displeasure with such thoughts because he understood where you are at he would have never said it to begin with? >> well, senator, we try to run our company in a way where people can express different opinions internally. >> well, this is an opinion that really disturbs me. and if somebody worked for me that said this, i would fire them. who is your biggest competitor? >> senator, we have a lot of competitors. >> who is your biggest? >> i think the categories -- do you want just one? i'm not sure can i g...

This may be your first appearance before congress but it's not the first time that facebook has phased tough questions about its privacy policies. wired magazine recently noted that you have a 14-year history of apologizing for ill advised decisions regarding user privacy, not unlike the one that you made just now in your opening statement. after more than a decade of promises to do better. how is today's apology different and why should we trust facebook to make the necessary changes to ensure user privacy and give people a clearer picture of your privacy policies? >> thank you, mr. chairman....

Chevy. if i'm upset with facebook, what's the equivalent product that i can go sign up for? >> well, there is the second category that i was going to talk about. >> i'm not talking about categories. i'm talking about is there real competition you face? because car companies face a lot of competition. if they make a defective car it goes out in the world, they stop buying that car and buy another one. is there an alternative to facebook in the private sector? >> yes. senator, the average senator using 8 different app.s to communicate with their friends and stay in touch with people. >> okay. >>...

Same facebook users whose data was shared with cambridge analytica? are you able to make that determination? >> senator, we're investigating that now. we believe that it is entirely possible that there will be a connection there. >> okay. that seems like a big deal as we look back at that last election. former cambridge analytica employee christopher wiley has said that the data that it improperly obtained that cambridge analytica improperly obtained from facebook users could be stored in russia. do you agree that that's a possibility? >> sorry, are you asking if cambridge analytica's data cou...