welcome back. i m stephanie ruhle. mark zuckerberg was restrained with when it came to facebook s role in the 2016 election and willing to testify before congress in his first interview since the cambridge analytica story broke. remember, it was journalists who broke the story that now has facebook in the hot seat. facebook didn t come forward voluntarily. you cannot forget that. there was one topic he did seem interested in discussing. please listen. given the stakes here, why shouldn t facebook be regulated? i actually am not sure we shouldn t be regulated. i actually think the question is more, what is the right regulation rather than yes or no, should it be regulated? there were things like ads transparency regulation that i would love to see. if you look at how much regulation there is around advertising on tv, in print, it s not clear why there should be less on the internet. we re committed, and we ve already started rolling out ad
they need to do their extremely important job. we just want to make sure we send whoever is best informed doing that. i agree separately that there s an element of accountability where i should be out there doing more interviews. as uncomfortable as it is for me to do a tv interview, i think this is an important thing that is a discipline for what we re doing, i should be out there and being asked hard questions by journalists. given the stakes here, why shouldn t be facebook be regulated? i actually am not sure we shouldn t be regulated. i think in general technology is an increasingly important trend in the world, and i actually think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than yes or no should it be regulated. what s the right regulation? well, there are some basic things and i think there are big intellectual debates. on the basic side, there are things like ads transparency