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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....

Don't have. >> am i able to opt out? am i able to say it's okay for you to track what i'm saying on facebook but i don't want you to track what i'm texting to somebody else off facebook on an android? >> oh, okay. yes, senator. jeb, facebook is not collecting data from other apps that you use. there may be some specific things about the device that you are using, that facebook needs to understand in order to offer the service, but, if you are using google or you are using some texting app. unless you specifically opt in that you want to share the texting app. information, facebook wouldn't see...

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. >>...

Issue-related ad. this is basically what the honest ads act is proposing. and we are following that and we're also going to do that for pages. >> but you can't answer on these? >> i'm not familiar with those specific cases. >> will you find out the answer and get back to me? >> i have my team get back to you. i do think it's worth adding though that we're going to do the same verification of the identity and location of admins who are running large pages. so that way even if they aren't going to be buying ads in our system, that will make it significantly harder for russian interference effort...

We were slow to identifying the type of new information operations. >> when did you identify new operations? >> it was right around the time of the 2016 election itself. so, since then -- 2018 is incredibly important year for elections not just the u.s. mid terms but around the world there are important elections in india, brazil, mexico, pakistan and in hungary that we want to make sure that we do everything we can to protect the indid he go at ininf those elections. since the 2016 election there have been several important elections around the world where we have had a better record. the fre...