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Responsible for not only deciding what content moves across their platform but responsible for deciding how to protect users' data. they have over a billion users worldwide. people need to understand how their data's being used. >> sandra: the type of money we're talking about -- we're not just throwing hundreds of millions. the agency, the ftc could fine facebook up to $40,000 per violation, per day which is 50 million users involved could add up to millions. they're ruling out the "b" word, billions, but it's no wonder the stock has taken such a drastic hit. it's up 3%. i guess it had to mov...

Now congress is talking about trying to pass new laws. i'm concerned every time there's a violation and whenever something happens there's a rush to pass new laws. in this case, facebook is like a library being blamed for someone coming in and stealing books. they stole data available through facebook the same it was to the obama campaign and exists on data mining or sets being used by other campaigns. there's a rush to blame facebook. when it comes to it there's other bad actors that should receive the blame. tim cooke weighed in.

0 friends are spitting mad at us. it turns out it's not his fault. because he didn't know anything about it. any of it. >> it's not really something i followed closely but we don't know -- i'm not familiar with this notion. >> he indicated that he was not aware of what was happening. certainly i was not. >> i don't know what you're referring to. >> nobody understood exactly what was taking place. >>e don't have any independent knowledge of that. >> i first learned about it from the same news reports that most people learned about it. >> it's a good thing that a newspaper gets delivered to the ...

2013. and good morning. welcome to "today" on a tuesday morning. i'm savannah guthrie. >> and i'm matt lauer along with natalie morales and we are following the breaking news out of washington, some serious allegations this morning facing the state department. >> according to internal state department memos the agency might have called off or intervened an investigation into possibly illegal and inappropriate behavior within its ranks allegedly to protect jobs and avoid scandals, this concerns the time that hillary clinton was secretary of state. we want to get right to nbc's chief...

if that's discloseded it will be a disaster. >> an international manhunt for the contractor who leaked america's surveillance secrets. >> edward snowden checked out of his hotel in hong kong and is in hiding. >> a reporter who worked with snowden said more significant revelations will be made. >> a substantial number of documents that will generate serious, important news storieses for weeks and probably months to come. >> the sky got really, really dark. it looked like the world was ending. >> seven tornado reports in virginia, north carolina and maryland. then the tornado in kentuc...