. >> reporter: facebook executive, monika bickert, speaking out after our exclusive interview with three silicon valley insiders tuesday. >> facebook is a living, breathing crime scene for what happened in the 2016 election. >> what's your response to that? >> this is a really large community. whatever people saw during the 2016 election that was from these russian accounts that we've now removed, it was unacceptable. >> reporter: bickert said many of the problems came from fake accounts. >> these are the sorts of accounts we're investing in technology to get better at detecting. we have made significant strides since the 2016 election. >> reporter: then there's the question of how facebook posts are reviewed. sarah katz was part of a team that examined posts flagged by users in 2016. and katz says she was not instructed to look for disinformation. >> as long as these stories didn't contain anything pornographic or incredibly violent, they're going to be left alone. >> reporter: facebook says 7,500 people now review questionable content. can you guarantee that a misinformation campaign w

i spoke to facebook‘s head of global policy, monika bickert, about our post—mortem account options.t that for facebook, i would imagine is an impossible task to get right. it's certainly a very difficult area for us. losing people is so hard and at facebook, we want to make sure that we are respecting that person's life and respecting the choices that person made, but we also want to make sure we're making this process as easy as possible for the family members that are going through it, and actually, it's sometimes hard for us to satisfy both of those. so i'd imagine a lot of people do not tell you, facebook, what they want to happen to their accounts after their death, so how do you know what to do? that's right, a lot of people don't. i want to be clear that there is a way to tell facebook what you would like to happen to your account after you pass away. we call it our legacy contact. you can actually designate someone who can look after your account basically, this gives the person — you can choose what authority you want the person to have — but this gives the person the choic

carlos monje and monika bickert. google, facebook, twitter and microsoft announced the formation of a hashing coalition to better identify and ultimately remove offending content. the question is, is there any shared standard for what constitutes extremist for terrorist content in your coalition? >> thank you chairman for that question. all companies are possibly working with one another and small companies to address the issues that change and evolve. as new things that we see around the world, we are constantly adapting how we attacked the challenge and we do rely on the advice of the council. not only of our peer companies but academics and ngos. >> there is no standard definition though. that you have agreed upon. >> that is right, mr. chairman. i would just end of companies -- we launched the global internet forum in june 2017. but we have been working together for a number of years informally. part of those meetings is discussing what the appropriate standards are. recognizing of course, that these different pr