The hard hitting interview kicked of Vanity Fair's New Establishment afternoon session Tuesday and ended with Sandberg opening up about her legacy.
Katie Couric hinted to Sheryl Sandberg right off the bat that their conversation at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit Tuesday afternoon would be a big one.o talk about," Couric said to Facebook’s chief operating officer Immediately after they took their seats at center stage inside the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, kicking off the chat titled "Putting a Best Facebook Forward.
To combat that, Sandberg said Facebook has deleted 2.2 billion fake accounts. "We take down millions every day," she explained before mentioning Russia and its alleged meddling the U.S. election. "Everything that was done by Russia was done under a fake account. If you find a fake account, you find the root of the problem."
"It’s a hard conversation and emotions are running high on this," Sandberg said. "It’s not for the money. This is a small part of our revenue. We take political ads because we believe they are a part of political discourse." "We can’t fact check everything," Sandberg said, noting that their focus is on content that is going viral. "We prioritize in terms of what’s growing most quickly."
Couric wanted to know what Sandberg’s response to the exchange. "It was a controversial speech," Sandberg said, noting that Bernice King would be coming to Facebook’s headquarters tomorrow when she would be sitting down with her personally to interview her, like Couric was doing, before hosting her for dinner. She got some laughs when she said that she’d like King “to post on our platform, too” rather than just on Twitter.
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