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attempting to interfere but I hope will

also give us some confidence that our

systems are now more sophisticated to

proactively identify and address these

things on your question about political

ads I look from a business perspective

the very small percent of our business

that is made up of political ads does

not come anywhere close to justifying

the controversy that this incurs for our

company so this really is not about

money

this is unprincipled in giving people a

voice I believe that ads can be an

important part of voice I think

especially in the political process for

challenger candidates and for local

candidates or advocacy groups whose

message might not otherwise be covered

by the media having ads can be an

important way to inject your message

into the Internet me interrupt you for a

minute are you telling me I think as she

said to me before you plan on doing no

fact-checking on political ads

chairwoman our policy is that we do not

fact check politicians speech and the

reason for that is that we believe that

in a democracy it is important that

people can see for themselves what

politicians are saying political speech

is some of the most scrutinized speech

already in the world to in fact check on

any ads at all up yes

describe what you fact check on oh sure

actually thank you for the opportunity

to clarify Facebook itself actually does

not check it does not fact check what we

do is we have feedback that people in

our community don’t want to see viral

hoaxes or or kind of like that maybe

clear you do no fact-checking

on any ads is that correct chairwoman

what we do is we work with a set of

independent fact checkers who somebody

fact checks on ads you have you contract

with someone to do that is that right

chairwoman yes and tell me who is it

that they bag checked on a chairwoman

what we do is when content is getting a

lot of distribution and is flagged by

members of our community or by our

Technical Systems it can go into a queue

to be reviewed by a set of independent

fact checkers

they can’t fact check everything but the

things that they get to and if they part

something is false then we all right my

time has expired

and someone else will continue on this

line of questioning