Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and CTO Mike Schroepfer (Live at Code 2018)

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4.4 • 585 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Facebook executives Sheryl Sandberg and Mike Schroepfer talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka at the 2018 Code Conference. Sandberg, the company’s COO, and Schroepfer, the CTO, talk about the continuing fallout from Cambridge Analytica and other scandals, including “fake news” during the 2016 elections. They retrace the timeline of the Cambridge Analytica affair and talk about what they’ve learned from their mistakes during that time, pledging to take responsibility for the platform. The duo also talks about Apple CEO Tim Cook’s criticism of Facebook’s privacy policies, the potential of government regulation and why trust and safety is now an “arms race.” Plus: Sandberg says Facebook won’t stop offering a free version of its product and Schroepfer explains how it’s thinking about VR and AR. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.6	Over the past year, Facebook has been no stranger to the conversation happening around fake news.
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0:43.3	This is Recode Media with Peter Kafka. That is me. I am part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:49.5	Today is a special day. I'm not recording this in New York. I'm at the 2018 Code Conference in California.
0:56.9	It's awesome here. If you're not here, good news. You're going to hear a lot of this conference coming to you in this podcast feed in the near future.
1:03.6	Today, for instance, you're going to hear from a conversation I just had with Facebook CEO, Cheryl Sandberg and Facebook CTO Mike Shrepfer. That's me and Kara Swisher talking with them.
1:14.2	Before we start that, my standard ask, if you like this show, tell someone else about it. Thank you.
1:19.9	Okay, in a second, Cheryl Sandberg and Mike Shrepfer, we had a lot to talk about.
1:24.6	We probably didn't get to everything because we only had about 35 minutes,
1:27.4	but we had a lot of conversations about Facebook's role and everything, how much responsibility
1:32.6	they're taking for it. Also a short conversation about VR while they're doing that. It's a
1:36.8	wide-ranging conversation. Karen and I did our best to elicit a real sort of answer from
1:41.6	Cheryl and Mike about some stuff. I think we did a pretty good job.
1:44.6	You can be the judge of that.
1:45.7	So that is coming in one more second.
1:47.8	P.S. if you like this stuff, good news.
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