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A squirrel dying in front of your house may be more relevant to your interests right now than people dying in Africa.

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Moderating content at scale is insane. 3.2 billion people use one of our services every day. It's wild.

You can think about the metaverse as an embodied internet, where instead of just viewing content - you are in it. And you feel present with other people as if you were in other places, having different experiences that you couldn't necessarily do on a 2D app or webpage, like dancing, for example, or different types of fitness.

One of the things that I'm very mindful of is to make sure that the services that we're building help to create meaningful interactions between people and not just a place where people can zone out and consume content for a long time.

So I think that the scale of the systems has created this responsibility for us, where we have to be more proactive about finding and addressing issues [harmful content]. And we can do that both by building technology that is possible now, but wasn't even possible five or ten years ago, and by hiring people at a scale that would not have been possible for us before.

People will always want more immersive ways to express themselves. So if you go back ten years ago on the internet, most of what people shared and consumed was text. Now a lot of it is photos. I think, going forward, a lot of it is going to be videos, getting richer and richer.

If something is spreading and is rated false by fact checkers, it would lose the vast majority of its distribution in News Feed. And of course if a post crossed line into advocating for violence or hate against a particular group, it would be removed. These issues are very challenging but I believe that often the best way to fight offensive bad speech is with good speech.