'So you won't take down lies?': Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez challenges Facebook CEO - YouTube

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mr. Zuckerberg what year and month did
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you personally first become aware of
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Cambridge analytic ah I'm not I'm not
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sure of the exact time but it was
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probably around the time when it became
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public I think it was around March of
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2018 I could be wrong though mm-hmm when
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did Facebook CEO Oh Cheryl Sandberg
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become aware of Cambridge analytic on oh
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and did anyone on your leadership team
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know about Cambridge analytic apriority
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the card Ian on December 11 2015
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congresswoman I I believe so and that
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some folks were were tracking it
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internally and actually as you're asking
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this I III do think I was aware of
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Cambridge analytic as an entity earlier
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I just I don't know if I was tracking
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how they were using Facebook
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specifically when was the issue
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discussed with your board member Peter
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Thiel
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congresswoman I don't I don't know this
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was the largest data scandal with
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respect to your company that had
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catastrophic impacts on the 2016
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election you don't you don't know well
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congresswoman I'm sure we discussed it
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after it after after we were aware of
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what happened okay you announced
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recently that the official policy of
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Facebook now allows politicians to pay
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to spread disinformation in 2020
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elections and in the future so I just
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want to know how far I can push this I'm
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in the next year under your policy you
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know using census data as well could I
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pay to target predominantly black zip
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codes and advertise them the incorrect
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election date no congresswoman you
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couldn't we we have even for these
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policies around the newsworthiness
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of content that politicians say in the
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general principle that I believe that
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but you said you're not going to
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fact-check my ass we have if if anyone
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including a politician is saying things
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that can cause that is calling for
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violence or could risk imminent physical
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harm or voter or census suppression when
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we roll out the census suppress
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policy we will take that content so so
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you will there is some threshold where
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you will fact check political
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advertisements is that where you're
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telling me well
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congresswoman yes and for specific
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things like that where there's imminent
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risk of harm could I run ads targeting
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Republicans in primaries saying that
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they voted for the Green New Deal
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sorry can you repeat that would I be
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able to run advertisements on Facebook
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targeting Republicans in primary saying
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that they voted for the green new deal I
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mean if you're not fact-checking
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political advertisements I'm trying to
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understand the bounds here don't know if
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I'll be able to do that do you see a
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potential problem here with a complete
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lack of fact-checking on political
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advertisements
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well congresswoman I think lying is bad
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and I think if you were to run an ad
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that had a lie that would be bad that's
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different from it being from from or in
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our position the right thing to do to
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prevent your constituents or people in
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an election from seeing that you had
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lied so we can so you won't take down
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lies or you will take down lives I think
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it's just a pretty simple yes or no
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congresswoman might talk about spin I'm
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talking about actual yes democracy I
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believe that people should be able to
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see for themselves what politicians that
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they may or may not vote for you won't
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take so you won't you may flag that it's
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wrong but you won't take it down
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congresswoman it's a it depends on the
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context that it shows up Organic Post
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one question one more question in your
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ongoing dinner parties with far-right
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figures some of who advanced the
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conspiracy theory that white supremacy
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is a hoax did you discuss so-called
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social media bias against conservatives
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and do you believe there is a bias
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congresswoman I don't remember
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everything that was in the Senate in the
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course array I'll move on can you
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explain why you've named the Daily
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Caller
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a publication white well documented
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with ties to white supremacists as an
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official fact checker for facebook
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congresswoman sure we actually don't
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appoint the independent fact checkers
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they go through an independent
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organization called the independent fact
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checking network that has a rigorous
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standard for who they allow to to serve
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as a fact checker so you would say that
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white supremacist tide publications meet
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a rigorous standard for fact-checking
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Thank You congresswoman I would say that
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we're not the one assessing that that
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standard the international fact-checking
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network is the one who is setting that
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standard