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🗓️ 29 January 2019
⏱️ 19 minutes
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0:00.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, our second guest is a small girl. |
0:10.0 | She had to put up with the accusation of being a bit bossy. |
0:14.0 | Last week in Davos Switzerland, Facebook executive Cheryl Sandberg gave this talk. |
0:19.0 | Hi. |
0:20.0 | I don't think I've ever done a standing interview before. |
0:24.0 | Yeah, well, here we are. |
0:26.0 | A German journalist is asking the questions here. |
0:29.0 | While they spoke, a crowd of guys and suits, and I mean a lot of guys and suits, |
0:33.0 | they all pressed against each other and held up their cell phones like they were at a Beyoncé concert. |
0:38.0 | Mostly, Sandberg wanted to talk about how Facebook is in the middle of a grand evolution. |
0:43.0 | We recognize Facebook once you're done with the makeover or is it going to be a whole different company. |
0:49.0 | We didn't anticipate all the risks that came from connecting so many people. |
0:53.0 | After a year of coming under fire for privacy violations and data leaks, |
0:58.0 | her tone was conciliatory. |
1:00.0 | You know, we know we need to earn back trust. |
1:02.0 | And so from everything from election integrity to fake news on our platform to getting the right content up, |
1:09.0 | we're taking a much more rigorous approach. |
1:11.0 | And I think it's really important. |
1:12.0 | But there was this one moment that stood out where Sandberg started defending the way Facebook makes money. |
1:18.0 | What we do is we use information to show relevant ads, so we're showing you things you might be interested in. |
1:24.0 | And where that's really important is for small business. |
1:27.0 | She gave this example about a woman she met in Dublin who uses Facebook to advertise her dog hotel. |
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