00:00How do you sustain a business model in which users don't pay for your service?
00:06Senator, we run ads.
00:09I see.
00:18And I'm not gonna say into the record what kind of language was used around that picture
00:22of her grandfather, but I'd ask you, how does that show up on a seven-year-old's iPhone
00:27who's playing a kid's game?
00:30Congressman, iPhone is made by a different company.
00:33Is it an alternative to Facebook in the private sector?
00:37Yes, Senator.
00:37The average American uses eight different apps to communicate with their friends and
00:42stay in touch with people, ranging from texting apps to email.
00:45It's the same service you provide?
00:47Well, we provide a number of different services.
00:48Is Twitter the same as what you do?
00:50I move from here and go over there and sit with my Democrat friends,
00:54which will make them real nervous.
00:57Does Google track my movement?
01:00Does Google, through this phone, know that I have moved here and moved over to the left?
01:07It's either yes or no.
01:10Not by default.
01:11There may be a Google service which you've opted in to use, and if...
01:15So Google knows that I am moving over there.
01:18It's not a trick question.
01:19You know, you make $100 million a year.
01:21You ought to be able to answer that question.
01:23I'm communicating with my friends on Facebook and indicate that
01:30I love a certain kind of chocolate.
01:33All of a sudden, I start receiving advertisements for chocolate.
01:40What if I don't want to receive those commercial advertisements?
01:46A while back, Republicans in the House passed legislation
01:50to repeal and replace Obamacare.
01:54Our bill was called the American Health Care Act, or the AHCA.
01:58When I was writing my blog about that, I Googled American Health Care Act,
02:02and virtually every article was an attack on our bill.
02:07Article after article alleging that our bill would result in millions and millions of people
02:12losing the great care that they were supposedly getting under Obamacare.
02:17Let me give you a second example.
02:19The Republican tax cut bill was passed about a year ago,
02:22the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.
02:24Same story.
02:26Article after article attacking the Republican tax cut plan,
02:30alleging the tax cuts only went to the rich.
02:33And once again, to find any article that had anything remotely good to say about our plan,
02:41you had to go deep into the search results.
02:44MSNBC would be in news.
02:46I mean, if you're on MSNBC,
02:47wouldn't that be in your news?
02:51Is MSNBC a news provider?
02:52Is that your question?
02:53So if you put, like I put my name in here, Rep Steve Cohen, I punch news.
02:57This weekend, I was on MSNBC four times,
03:00and yet the first thing that comes up is the Daily Caller.
03:02Not exactly a liberal, but I guess well-known group.
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