we are technology company in our heart. we hire engineers. but that does not mean we don t have responsibility for what people put on our site. we don t write any news articles, so we re different than a media company, but that doesn t mean we don t have speedometer. 12k34r so you re not a media company? the hard thing about that company is we saying the answer or don t have responsibility. in our heart, we re a tech company. we hire engineers. we don t hire reporters. no one is a journalist. but when we say that, we aren t saying we don t have responsibility. we re a new platform with our is size. we think we have more responsibility. so let s go to the regulation question pause it s important. so we haven t seen an exact proposal from the government, but we talked to them and i saw what they said. what they are really going after is safety and security on our site. bullying, terrorism, our policy ises are very clear in this area.
joyce vance and david ki kirkpatrick, wrote the facebook effect as someone who has followed this closely. what is your take-away how late and lazy and sloppy they ve been to deal with they are role in this? lazy is not a word i would apply to leaders of facebook, but i think they re late to recognize the degree to which the systems that have arisen organically over the course of many years could be so deeply manipulated in ways they don t seem to have anticipated. that s shocking to me. in that sense very surprise. not lazy about policing journalism? a huge platform for sharing information and their attitude initially was we don t have responsibility. naïve. didn t anticipate the degree to