asked hard questions by journalists. what happened? what went wrong? this was a major breach of trust. i m really sorry that this happened. there were previous instances they had the issue of apologies for breaches in the past. this was different. senator john thune and much of washington was watching closely. we re already contemplating how to proceed in terms of our oversight role and we want to make sure we re holding them accountable. reporter: everybody wants you to show up. will you testify before congress? i m happy to if it s the right thing to do. reporter: you are the brand of facebook, the name of facebook. people want to hear from you. we want to make sure we send whoever is best informed to doing that. we took into consideration the statement that he made when you had asked him those questions and then began to more aggressively pursue the idea of having him come in. reporter: zuckerberg agreed
the site under fire. the era of the wild west in social media is coming to an end. sharing private data. the largest security breach in facebook history. manipulated by foreign governments. details about the extent of facebook s role in russia s election interference. used to spread hate and lies. fake news. leading questions about the platform. you have users asking maybe i should dloet it. what does it truly mean to connect the world? our mission has really always been to connect the world. we can connect the whole world. there s always a catch 22 whenever you re giving a voice to people who didn t have a voice before. did making money get in the the way of the mission to ultimately connect the world? we search for answers, rare interviews to facebook insiders. we pushed the boundaries too far.
but to fully understand facebook of today, you have to go back to the beginning. hi, i m mark zuckerberg. founder of facebook, an online social directory. that was really good. give a smile. thanks. the early days of facebook were very scrappy time. there have been some constants through the years. the mission of the company of connecting people and bringing people together, that informed some of the most important decisions that we have made. you re going to hear this phrase the mission quite a bit. mark s mission is the mantra at facebook. our mission has always been to connect the world. we re a mission-driven company. our mission is to connect everyone in the world. connect. we can connect can the whole world. it was in the company s dna from the the beginning. people have been drawn to the peop company. if you re an employee you
why weren t the myspace founders upset? or suing us at the time? they had 100 million users. when we had 10 million. he did not steal the idea. facebook strategy was to ignore and keep building. and when asked, denied. we know we didn t steal any ideas or code. so we re just kind of waiting until that comes o out in court. in 2007 a judge called their claims tissue thin and called the agreement dorm room chitchat, which the judge ruled does not make a contract. by 2008 the twins settled for $65 million. what facebook did throughout the entire litigation was suppress and withhold all of the smoking gun electronic communications of mark zuckerberg. the communications that et eventually leaked because of beside insiders nicholas karlson. you presed someone. someone wanted you to have these
now it says move carefully and don t break things. if you break thing, sometimes you break the country. this was long before the facebook backlash. in this 05 the group moved to their first office. it was just a bunch of kids who were living out a continuation of their college experience. naomi was one of the early et employees. it was a above chinese restaurant. we would order chinese food, come into work at like 2:00. had college hours. work all night until 8:00 in the morning and go home and crash. mark recruited his oldest sister who was skeptical. facebook was so early. who was i to think that was going to be the thing that stuck? he was just like, if you just come out and see what we re working on, you ll change your mind. and she did president at 471 emerson, she negotiated her salary, with her brother.