Smithsonian air and Space Museum Live at 6 00 p. M. Eastern. Now a conversation with facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg who spoke at the American Enterprise Institute Last week. Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to aie, im Arthur Brooks and im delighted to introduce Sheryl Sandberg to join us today. We have many events but thsz something ive been looking forward to for a long time. This an interview weve been hoping to do for months and months and had this on the books for four months and this is as many of you know one of the last events well be doing in this building. Well talk about so many issues important to you and important to me. Ill give you a quick bio. Its not that necessary but so impressive. The person i have with me on the stage, i want to talk and dwell on what success really looks like in america today. She has been the chief operating officer at facebook since 2008. When she came to facebook, facebook had 70 million users, which seemed like a lot at the time
Needed human editors. So for example without that, every day at noon, lunch would be trending. We needed human touch to get it right. And dinner around 5 00 or 6 00. Mr. Brooks every day, thats weird. [laughter] ms. Sandberg breakfast, lunch, dinner. We had an excontractor on the team you accuse us of having a liberal bias. That is a pretty important accusation and when we take seriously. It is also one that rang true to some people. Because there is concern that Silicon Valley has a liberal bias. We did not find a liberal bias but we still took steps to be more rigorous in our approach to running the editorial team, putting a stronger guidelines. There was a list we used to validate sites. We got rid of that. There is no list we are relying on. We also had a meeting where we had a full range of conservative voices. And as you remember, we did not just talk about this topic, we talked about how they were using facebook to get their voice out. This really matters to us. It is a politica
In the Treasury Department during the clinton administration. Mr. Brooks thank you for ms. Sandberg thank you for inviting me here today. Mr. Brooks we have been the keyboard to this conversation for a long time. In 2006 and we were both interested in philanthropy. I had written a Controversial Book about who gives more to charity, conservatives or liberals . She came to a talk that i gave and she said, that is one of the most interesting people i have ever met and it is great that we are going to meet again for this particular conversation. I have got a lot of questions and so does our audience. I want to get right to it. You are kind of in the deli of the political beast. You are kind of in the belly of the political beast. One month ago, facebook was in the middle of something that had flared up in which people had asserted that the trending topics at facebook had been either manipulated or had done something to suppress conservative views. I do not want to get into the weeds, but c
Coming up on thursday. David historic. Share thiset market check. Lets get you up to speed. Futures now higher this morning. S p 500 futures up about the exploits. Now futures up 33. A rally in the a rally in europe. Switch at the board to much longer dollar story on most of the crosses this morning. Dollar yen inching higher. Euro sterling, brexit spread, we will talk about that in about 10 minutes. At inches away from that 80 pence level on friday. Treasury yields up a basis point at 1. 78 . Lets get over to vonnie quinn for first world news. First word news. Vonnie more flights scheduled to leave the Brussels Airport a day after it reopened. Only three flights the parted yesterday. Flight schedule to the u. S. And africa today. Because of the damage caused by the attack, the airport can handle less than 20 of its normal passenger load. Investigators in europe say least what two members of the terrorist cell to the paris and brussels attacks are still at large. Officials tell the jou
Without borders was leveled by attack. The airstrike blamed on Government Forces left 50 people dead. A less than welcome greeting for donald trump in burlingame, california. Protesters fought with police and knocked down barriers. Thee arrived to address state gop convention. He said his entrance was like crossing the border. In kenya, search and rescue teams are made at the site of a sixstory building collapse. Four people are hospitalized and others are trapped beneath the rubble because of the high housing, some developers bypassed building regulations to cut costs and maximize profits. Im Mark Crumpton at bloomberg World Headquarters in new york. Bloomberg west is next. Emily i am emily chang, and this is bloomberg west. It has been a dramatic week for tech stocks. Apple sending the s p 500 to its lowest drop since february with amazon checking in for its best profit yet. Plus, the app pulled off a bigtime coup today, scoring a one every kind of deal. Will snapchat revolutionized