lighter. don t see it. is mark zuckerberg s position within the company in jeopardy? i think peter thiel is remaining on the board. peter thiel is still on the board, correct. i don t think there s kwconcern with mark zuckerberg losing his board. one, the board has been together a long time. they believe mark zuckerberg is the right person to lead the company. also, mark zuckerberg is the controlling member of the board. i believe he still controls some 60% of the board vote. there is nothing that happens at facebook without his final approval and permission. mark is not going anywhere. this is the first time though that i have seen people even ask that question, are you the best person to run facebook? we ve assumed for the last 14 or 15 years that the answer was an obvious yes. now, if for the first time, people are questioning that. he s not going anywhere. let me ask you this, kirk, when he goes before the senate on tuesday, what is it that people want to know? sometimes, t
sometimes they re grandstanding for people who want to nus thuse in election ads. what should we ask that we don t know? he will be sworn, so he can deny but not lie. the biggest question we still have is what impact did facebook actually have on the 2016 election? what impact could facebook have on the 2018 midterms or other elections around the world? we ve seen the data. we ve seen how many people may have been exposed through this cambridge analytica situation, how many ads were purchased. we really don t know what that ultimately led to. i don t know if facebook has that answer. i m sure they ve tried to find the answer to that question. we haven t heard it yet. i would love to hear someone ask mark zuckerberg, what was your impact on this whole situation? kirk, good to cere ysee you. senior social media editor. this is a time of reckoning for everybody, facebook and digital media. they have to figure out their responsibility with respect to privacy and fake news, and so do
where you come in. you have to take some responsibility for this. facebook did the wrong thing the whole time, but you have to take some control over this now. measures are going to certainly help make your data more secure. but it is a bit like installing a security system after your house has been robbed, assuming you re one of the 87 million or whatever million number of people with information harvested. you re not going to say, the party is over, leave the front door open forever and keep robbing me. time to clean it up. close it and install the alarm system. joining us now, social media editor kirk wagner. here s what i don t get, the scope of this keeps expanding. this data breach happened years ago. how is it that facebook only in the last days is now saying, oh, let s up the number to 87 million? well, we didn t really know about it until three weeks ago when the new york times and observer came out with stories saying, cambridge analytica, the firm that promised t
these changed seem fine on paper but must next guest argues they don t go far enough. quote, the changes are cosmetic, facebook isn t changing the way it collected your data and it was used before and scattered in different pages that made it tougher to see. i m joined by kirk wagner from recode. let s start about going through what is changing. i m on facebook, four years ago i got off and i was given this cache of information and i have no idea what is in this and what is the result of these policy changes. if you are a facebook user today, it is hard to figure out what data you ve given facebook. what your privacy settings are and the company is redesigning the format that it puts all of that on website so you should hopefully be able to go on to facebook and more easily and clearly find out what does facebook know about me and what am i granting them permission and do i want to remove permission. so this already existed. facebook is just trying to make it easier for people to fin