Hey there, it's Stephen Dubner.

You are about to hear a conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook.

It was recorded last summer, long before we learned that 50 million Facebook users'

data had been weaponized by political operatives.

Facebook has been the subject of intense scrutiny for years now.

That's what happens when you've gone from a college dorm startup to a social network

with some two billion global users.

We heard parts of this interview during our recent six-part series, The Secret Life of a CEO,

which you can find at Frekenomics.com slash CEOs.

Now we're releasing some of our full interviews from that series as special episodes like

this one.

I spoke with Zuckerberg in Chicago, in a trailer outside an event space where he had just

addressed a few hundred very enthusiastic people who serve as group administrators for Facebook

user groups.

He had just introduced new software tools that would help them manage their groups.

You may have heard recently that Facebook has been seriously questioning its mission,

that it's trying, or at least it's saying, that it's trying to encourage more meaningful

social bonds and less partisanship and discord.

That movement was essentially launched on this day at this talk Zuckerberg gave in Chicago.

Every day I wake up and I just think to myself, I don't have much time here on Earth.

How can I make the greatest positive impact that I can?

I know that this is a question that a lot of you ask yourselves too, and it's not always

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