You and your co-founders started
a company in your dorm room thats grown to be one of
the biggest and most successful businesses in the entire world. While Facebook has
certainly grown, I worry it may not have matured. I think its time to
ask whether Facebook may have moved too fast
and broken too many things. Who do you think owns an
individuals presence online? Who owns their virtual you? Is it you or is it
them? Congresswoman, I believe that everyone
owns their own content online.
And thats the first line
of our terms of service, if you read it, says that. After this new algorithm was implemented, that there
was a tremendous bias against conservative
news and content and a favorable bias
towards liberal content. Was there a directive
to put a bias in and first are you
aware of this bias that many people have looked
at and analyzed and seen? Congressman, this is a
really important question. There is absolutely no
directive in any of the changes that we make to have
a bias in anything that we do.
Well, you have a long
history of growth and success. But you also have a
long list of apologies. In 2003, it started at Harvard. I apologize for any harm
done as a result of my neglect.
2006: We really
messed this one up. 2007: We simply did a bad job. I apologize for it. This is proof to me that
self-regulation simply does not work.
Are you aware of other
third-party information mishandlings that have not been disclosed? Congresswoman, no, although we are currently going through
the process of investigating every single app So youre not sure? That had access
to a large amount of data. All right, but I only have four minutes. Was your data included in the data sold to the
malicious third parties? Your personal data? Yes. If you don't,
youre not listening to us on the phone, who is, and do you
have specific contracts with these companies
that will provide data that is being
acquired verbally through our phones
or now through things like Alexa or other products? Congressman, were not collecting
any information verbally on the microphone, and we dont
have contracts with anyone else who is.
Facebook has
detailed profiles on people who have never
signed up for Facebook. Yes or no? Congressman, in general,
we collect data from people have not signed up for
Facebook for security purposes to prevent the kind of
scraping that you were just referring to. As C.E.O., You didnt know
some key facts. You didnt know about major court
cases regarding your privacy policies against your company.
You didnt know that the F.T.C.
Doesnt have fining authority and that Facebook could not
that have received fines for the 2011 consent order. You didnt know what
a shadow profile was..
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