Sheryl Sandberg revealed new Facebook privacy protections at Davos - Business Insider

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Sheryl Sandberg spoke a private event in Davos and revealed that Facebook is rolling out a new privacy checkup to 2 billion people as part of efforts to be more accountable

, from drugs to exotic animals to "adult service," although Facebook said a technical issue allowed these listings to make it past reviewers.

While she acknowledged that Facebook didn't know enough about removing bad content or preventing election interference in 2016, Sandberg said that "We've shown in the elections since that we can stop election interference and ensure privacy." As an example of the company holding itself accountable, Sandberg announced that Facebook was rolling out what she called a "privacy checkup" to two billion users, that they can use to see how their data is being used.

Sandberg was also clear in calls for greater government oversight. "We think there needs to be more constraints on companies like ours and more standards that we can all adhere to, so we can decide together what is political speech, what is content that should be reviewed, what is privacy that individuals should have," she said.

Content moderation and deciding what counts as political speech has historically been a sore spot for Facebook. Decisions like

 

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