"We need to protect people using our platform." "We know it's an arms race," said Sandberg. Their answers all ended up with different variations of apologies. On stage, Sandberg and chief technology officer Mike Schroepfer avoided the harder questions posed by Recode's Kara Swisher and Peter Kafka, such as why anyone wasn't fired at Facebook in response to the scandals. One of its most vocal critics, Virginia Senator Mark Warner, a Democrat, is scheduled to speak at the same conference Wednesday. It was a tale of two social media companies, one the biggest and most profitable, but under fire from lawmakers that it hasn't done enough to protect its users' data. Sandberg repeated apologies for allowing the data of an estimated 87 million people to be harvested by political ad targeting firm Cambridge Analytica and vulnerabilities that allowed Russian manipulators to pose as authentic users to try to sway voters during the 2016 election. Facebook repeats apologiesįacebook COO Sheryl Sandberg also spoke late Tuesday at the conference, an annual gathering of tech CEOs and insiders. Since before its IPO, Snap had come under fire for racist filters, the augmented reality features users of the app add to their posts. Snap has resisted publicly releasing its diversity numbers, a preliminary step now made by most tech companies to hiring and retaining more women and people of color, who represent few of the tech industry's leadership and technical staff. "We're proud of the progress we've made in the last 6 months," he said. "We need to do even more, and do it even faster," to change the company culture, he said, adding that Snap hired external consultants to study the firm and show Snap where it needed to improve. Spiegel said the letter was a "wake-up" call. At the conference, Spiegel was asked to respond to a recent report by news outlet Cheddar of a former female engineer who quit Snap in 2017 and sent a letter to employees complaining of a "toxic," male- dominated culture, such as top executives making penis enlargement jokes and all-male push-up contests in the office.
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