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