the case, and one was keeping up a trump post that many felt fell under a hate speech category, and many were worried about a conservative backlash, and the government in general, and are leaders making constant decisions on appeasing political leaders? no. did they in that situation? no, they didn t. i was involved in those conversations. i think it s very important that people have the opportunity to hear from what political leaders are saying. you know, in those cases i don t think that a lot of the content violated our policies, and we have a specific point in our policies where newsworthy content, we have a special deference to, which is somebody who is a prominent politician
understood the issue sooner. i wish we understood it before 2016, before the russians tried to do these information operations in the first place. i do think sometimes people say, well, how did you not know this? i think in some of these cases it s a really big deal to come out and say a nation state is behind something. and before our company puts a stamp on something saying that, i want to be really sure that s the case. quite a few revelations in this case. one references a decision to keep up a trump post that many considered fell under the hate speech category and one of the reasons your team decided to keep it up was you were worried about a conservative backlash. are leaders making content decisions based on appeasing political leaders? no. but did they in that situation? no, they didn t. and i was involved in those conversations, and i think it s very important that people have the opportunity to hear from
in the first place. i think sometimes people say how did you not know this, and i think in some of these cases, it s a really big deal to come out and say that a nation state is behind something. before our company puts a stamp on something saying that, i want to be really sure that s the case. one referenced a decision to keep up a trump post that many considered fell under the hate speech category. in part of this revelation, it said one of the reasons you kept it up is because you were worried about a conservative backlash. facebook is under pressure from the democrats and republicans. the government in general. are leaders making content decisions based on appeasing political leaders? no. reporter: did they in that situation? no. they didn t. i was involved in those conversations, and i think it s very important that people have the opportunity to hear from what political leaders are saying. in those cases, i don t think
well, how did you not know this? i think in some of these cases, you know, it is a really big deal to come out and say that a nation state is behind something. and before our company puts a stamp on something saying that, i want to be really sure that that s the case. quite a few revolutions. one is you decided to keep up a trump post that many felt fell under the hate speech post. one of the reasons is they were worried about a conservative backlash. i know facebook is under a lot of pressure. no. look, in a lot of these cases did they in that situation? no, they didn t. and i was involved in those conversations. i think it s very important that people have the opportunity to hear from what political leaders are saying. so, you know, in those cases, i don t think that a lot of the