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>> thank you, senator graham. senator global char. >> thank you, mr. zuckerberg, you acknowledge it was bad and breach of trust. if someone breaks into my apartment with a crowbar and they take my stuff, it is just like if the manager gave them the keys or if they didn't have any locks on the doors, it's still a breach. it's still a break-in. and i believe we need to have laws and rules that are sophisticated as the brilliant products that you have developed here. and we just haven't done that yet. one of the areas that i focused on is the election. and i appreciate the support that you and fa...

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...

Interference. these unverified divisive pages are on facebook today. they look a lot like russian agents use to spread propaganda during the 2016 election. are you able to confirm whether they are russian created groups? yes or no? >> senator, you asking about those specifically? >> 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. >> these specific ones, do you know whether they are. >> i'm not familiar with those piece of content specifically. >> but this policy a week ago you would...

Facebook has been served with subpoenas from special office; is that correct? >> yes. have you or anyone at facebook been interviewed by the special counsel's office? >> yes. >> have you been interviewed. >> i have not. i have not. >> others have. >> i believe. so i want to be careful here because that our work with the special counsel is confidential and i want to make sure that in an open session i'm not revealing something that's confidential. >> i understand. i want to make clear that you have been contacted and had subpoenas. >> actually, let me clarify that i'm not aware of a subpoena. i...

In the long legal document. stuff needs to be implemented in a way where people can actually understand it. where consumers can understand that. but, that can also capture all the nuances of how these services work in a way that is not overly restrictive on providing the services. that's one. the second is around giving people complete control. this is the most important principle for facebook. every piece of content that you share on facebook, you own and you have complete control over who sees it and how you share it and you can remove it at any time. that's why every day about 100 billion t...