Name: Mark Zuckerberg Denies Knowing About Anti-Semitic PR Firm Hire
Uploaded: 2018-11-21
Duration: 2 min 19 s
Description: He sat down with CNN’s Laurie Segall.

[ MUSIC ] The PR firm was founded by Republican political strategists and it launched a campaign linking a Facebook critics to George Soros. This is a common tactic used by anti- Semitic and alt right groups. That's why I think people were so shocked when they found out about this. I think that was one of the parts about the report that a lot of folks had real questions about Does that strike you as stooping low? Yeah. I wasn't particularly happy about that piece of that. That's certainly a big part of when I read about this what made me want to look into this more deeply. So, the intention here was never to attack an individual. I mean, but in this particular scenario launching, it's not common for tech companies to necessarily hire these types of firms, and many would argue it's a way of spreading the same type of conspiracy theories that Facebook has worked so hard in the last couple of years to get on top of. Yeah. Look, from the review that I've done so far, it doesn't appear that anything that the group said was untrue, as far as we can tell. There are a lot of questions now about Sheryl Sandberg's role in the latest controversy. Can you definitively say Sheryl will stay in her same role? Yeah look Charlet is a really important part of this company. And is leading a lot of the efforts to address a lot the efforts, the biggest issues that we have. And she' been an important partner for me, for ten years. And am really proud of the work that we've done together. And I hope that we work together for decades more to come. I was on the reporter call where you repeatedly denied that you knew anything about hiring this opposition group PR firm. Can you state it for the record did you know anything about this? Well like I said on the call, I learned about this when I read the report as well But I'm not actually sure that that's the most important point. And I think your question is right, that I do run the company, I am responsible for everything that happens here. I don't think that this point was about a specific PR firm, it was about how we act, and that's why I think it's important not just you know, what we're doing in relation to To this one firm, but that we go through and look at all the different PR firms and folks who we work with and make sure that we're operating in the way that we want to. [ MUSIC ]