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Steve Scalise questions Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg

Thank You mr. chairman and mr.,Zuckerberg I appreciate you coming here,I know as some of my other colleagues,mentioned you came here voluntarily and,we appreciate the opportunity to have,this discussion because clearly what,your company has been able to do is,revolutionize the way that people can,connect and there's a tremendous benefit,to our country,now it's a worldwide platform and it's,it's helped create a shortage of,computer programmers so as a former,computer programmer I think we would,both agree that we need to encourage,more people to go into the computer,sciences because our country is a world,leader,thanks to your company and so many,others but it obviously raises questions,about privacy and data and how the data,is shared and what is a user's,expectation of where that data goes so I,want to ask a few questions first would,you agree that we need more computer,programmers and people to go into that,field,congressman yes that's a public service,announcement we just made so appreciate,you joining me in that um and mr.,Shimkus his question it was really a,follow-up to a question yesterday that,that you weren't able to answer but it,was dealing with how facebook tracks,users especially after they log off and,you had said in relation to congressman,Shimkus this question that there is data,mining but it goes on for security,purposes so my question would be is that,data that is mine for security purposes,also used to sell as part of the,business model congressman I believe,that those are that we collect different,data for those but I can follow up on,the details of all right if you could,follow up I would appreciate that um,getting into this this new realm of,content review I know some of the people,that work for Facebook Campbell Brown,said for example this is changing our,relationship with publishers and,emphasizing something that Facebook has,never done before it's having a point of,view and you mentioned the diamond silk,example where there,I think described it as a mistake were,the people who made that mistake held,accountable in any way congressman let,me follow up with you on that that,situation developed while I was here,preparing to testify so I'm not okay I,do want to ask you about a study that,was done,dealing with the algorithm that Facebook,uses to describe what is fed to people,through the newsfeed and what they found,was after this new algorithm was,implemented that there was a tremendous,bias against conservative news and,content and a favorable bias towards,liberal content and if you can look at,that that shows a 16-point disparity,which is concerning I would imagine,you're not going to want to share the,algorithm itself with us I'd encourage,if you wanted to do that but who,develops the algorithm I wrote,algorithms before and you can determine,whether or not you want to write an,algorithm to sort data to,compartmentalize data but you can also,put a bias in if that's the directive,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 and any of the,changes that we make to have a bias and,anything that we do to the contrary our,goal is to be a platform for all ideas,and I know where we're almost out of,time so if you can go back and look and,determine if there was a bias whoever,developed that software you have twenty,thousand people that work on some of,this data analysis if you can look and,see if there is a bias and let us know,if there is and what you're doing about,it because that is disturbing when you,see that kind of disparity finally,there's been a lot of talk about,Cambridge in what they've done in the,last campaign in 2008 and 2012 there was,also a lot of this done one of the lead,digital heads of the Obama campaign said,recently Facebook was surprised we were,able to suck out the whole social graph,but they didn't stop us once they,realized that was what we were doing,they came to office in the days,following election recruiting and were,very candid that they allowed us to do,things they wouldn't have allowed,someone else to do because they were on,our side that's a direct quote from one,of the heads of the Obama digital team,what what would,she mean by they Facebook on our side,congressman we didn't allow the Obama,campaign to do anything that any,developer on the platform wouldn't have,otherwise been able to do so she's,making in an accurate statement in your,point of view yes the comments look,forward to those answers yield back the,balance month chair now

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