Mr. Zuckerberg, would
you be comfortable sharing with us the name of the
hotel you stayed in last night? Um no. If youve messaged
anybody this week, would you share with us
the names of the people youve messaged? Senator, no, I would probably not choose
to do that publicly here. I think that may be
what this is all about.
In 2015, we heard the report
that this developer Aleksandr Kogan had sold data to
Cambridge Analytica. Did you or senior
leadership do an inquiry to find out who at Facebook
had this information and did they not have
a discussion about whether or not the users
should be informed back in December of 2015? Senator, in retrospect, I think we clearly
view it as a mistake that we didnt inform people. And we did that based
on false information that we thought that
the case was closed, and that the data
had been deleted. So there was a decision
made on that basis not to inform the
users.
Is that correct? Thats my understanding, yes. I assume Facebooks
been served with subpoenas from the special
counsel Muellers office. Is that correct? Yes. Actually, let
me clarify that.
I actually am not
aware of a subpoena. I believe that there may be. But I know were
working with them. Thank you.
If I buy a Ford and it
doesnt work well and I dont like it,
I can buy a Chevy. If Im upset
with Facebook, whats the equivalent product
that I can go sign up for? The average American
uses eight different apps O.K. To communicate
with their friends and stay in touch with people O.K. Ranging from text apps which is to email.
Which is the same
service you provide. Well, we provide
a number of different services. Is Twitter the
same as what you do? It overlaps with a portion of what we do. You dont think you have
a monopoly? It certainly doesnt
feel like that to me.
O.K. [Audience laughs] Do you need to look
behind shell corporations in order to find
out who is really behind the content
thats being posted? And if you may need to look
behind a shell corporation, how will you go
about doing that? How will you get
back to the true, what lawyers would
call beneficial owner of the site that is putting
out the political material? So what were going to do is require
a valid government identity and were going to
verify the location. So were going to do that, so that way someone sitting
in Russia, for example, couldnt say that
theyre in America and therefore able
to run an election ad. But if they were running
through a corporation domiciled in Delaware, you wouldnt
know that they were actually a Russian owner.
Senator, thats thats correct..
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