I've been here for on and off for the last four hours that you've been testifying and I have to tell you I'm I'm concerned about how much Facebook values trust and transparency if we agree that a critical component of a relationship of trust and transparency as we speak truth and we get to the truth during the course of this hearing these last four hours you've been asked several critical questions for which you don't have answers and those questions have included whether facebook contract users browsing activity even after the user has logged off of Facebook whether
Facebook can track your activity across devices even when you aren't logged into Facebook who is face looks biggest competition whether Facebook may store up to 96 categories of users information whether you know whether Kogan's Terms of Service and whether you knew if that Cogan could sell or transfer data and then another case in point specifically as it relates to Cambridge analytic is in a concern of mine is that you meaning Facebook and I'm gonna assume you personally as CEO became aware in December of 2015 that dr. Kogan and Cambridge analytical misappropriated data from 87 million
Facebook users that's 27 months ago but that you became as Facebook and perhaps you personally became aware however a decision was made not to notify the users so my question is did anyone at Facebook have a conversation at the time that you became aware of this breach and have a conversation where in the decision was made not to contact the users senator I don't know if there were any conversations at Facebook overall because I was in a lot of them but on that subject yeah I mean I'm not sure what other people discussed are at
the time in 2015 we heard the report that this developer Alexander Cogan had sold data to Cambridge analytic ah that's in violation of our Terms correct and were you a part of a decision were you part of a discussion that resulted in a decision not to inform your users I don't remember a conversation like that but the reason why are you aware of anyone in leadership at Facebook who was in a conversation where a decision was made not to inform your users or do you believe no such conversation ever took place I'm not sure whether
there was a conversation about that but I can tell you the thought process at the time of the company which was that in 2015 when we heard about this we banned the developer and we demanded that they delete all the data and stop using it and same with Cambridge analytical and I regard but I'm talking about notification of the users and and and this relates to the issue of transparency and the relationship of trust informing the user about what you know in terms of how their personal information has been misused and I'm also concerned that
when you personally became aware of this 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 didn't 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 that's my understanding yes okay and what I retrospect I think that was a mistake and knowing what we know now we should have handled a lot of things here differently and I appreciate that point do you know when that Congress when that decision was made not to inform the users I don't okay last November the Senate Intelligence Committee held a hearing on Media influence I was a part of that hearing I submitted 50 written questions to Facebook and other companies and the responses that we received were unfortunately evasive and some were frankly non-responsive
so I'm gonna ask the question again here how much revenue did Facebook earn from the user engagement that resulted from foreign propaganda well senator what we do know is that the IRA the internet research agency the the Russian firm ran about a hundred thousand dollars worth of ads I can't say that we've identified all of the foreign actors who are involved here so I I can't say that that's all of the money but that is what we have identified okay my time is up I'll submit more questions for the record thank you
