here's steffan powell. street in the uk today and people will have their heads down looking at their phones. chances are a fair few of them will be on the world's biggest social media platform, facebook. carnaby street is a busy place in central london and is no different. but here today are some of the top bosses responsible for the content that people are scrolling through. it has been a tough year in the news for facebook, but this is a rare opportunity to put a face to the platform and ask the questions that you want answered. hello, my name is steffan powell. and joining me in central london are some listeners to bbc radio one's newsbeat. facebook has invited us in ahead of their facebook weekend. we have a look to the audience and the money for facebook and any of the questions that we are going to be asking tonight. everyone with us here has got something to say, so an issue to raise. what are we going to find out tonight? for me, if you're going to watch my browsing habits, and mark why you're watch

hello, my name is steffan powell. joining me in central london are some listeners to bbc radio one and 1xtra's newsbeat. facebook has invited us in to this public space ahead of their it's your facebook weekend. we have selected the audience and nobody from facebook has seen any of the questions that we are going to be asking tonight. everyone with us here has got something to say, or some issues to raise, so let's go to them briefly. duncan, what do you want to find out tonight? for me, if you're going to watch my browsing habits, and market relevant products to me then that's a good thing but how much do you really know about us and who else knows that information? 0k, thank you, duncan. what about you 7 i take my online privacy extremely seriously. i would like to know how much control do i truly have over my data on facebook. thank you very much. to answer these and many other questions are some experts from facebook itself. why don't you introduce yourselves? thank you, my name isjessie de la merced and i work at

joining me now is newsbeat‘s steffan powell, who chaired last night's debate.four. various executives with different responsibilities in the uk and europe and they met with listeners from radio1 europe and they met with listeners from radio 1 and wanted to put questions to them. there were a range of topics. listeners asked about mental health concerns. there have been surveys linked with a rising depression with young people tied with social media. they asked pertinent questions that have hit the headlines about data misuse and one thing was how can we trust facebook? given the power of the news feed and what information we see on a daily basis, how can we trust to make sure the platform is not being used to influence politics. i think we were expecting a clip but i am not sure we have it. give us a sense of how difficult it was from a technical point of view to get these facebook managers together at the same time to talk to you? i have the easy job. i wasjust hosting. the hard work was done by my boss ‘s production team in the weeks leading up to it. it is n

the event was chaired by newbeat‘s steffan powell, and he's here to tell us what happened. latform, it's the beginning of an average programme from them, they have an event on this weekend called it's your facebook to try and speak to users and try and allay fears after a tricky year for them, we put some new speed, radio one and one xtra listeners in a room with four of top executives from the company and tried to figure out what going on and let them have a chance to ask their questions. a range of issues we re their questions. a range of issues were talked about from mental health to big things like what they do with data and how can we trust facebook given that the power they have on the platform that so many people use and can influence our politics?“ you look on facebook now we've built an archive, running in the us today but we are working at this moment to bring it to the uk and you can go to the ads archive and you can see all the ads archive and you can see all the political ads that have running, you can see who run them, roughly how much they spent and further we