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"I come with very good news. We're the only company in Silicon
Valley that's not building a car," Sandberg said to laughter and
applause at the opening ceremony of the Frankfurt motor show,
where she met German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Facebook is sponsoring a "new mobility world" at the Frankfurt
show that brings together carmakers, tech companies and
start-ups in areas such as autonomous driving and electric cars.
Sandberg's visit to Germany comes after the country's parliament
passed a law in June to introduce fines of up to 50 million
euros ($59 million) for social media networks if they fail to
remove hateful postings promptly.
On Wednesday - when Sandberg was attending a marketing
conference in Germany - Facebook tightened its rules on who can
make money from advertising on its network to make it harder for
providers of fake news and sensational headlines to cash in.
Facebook also said on Wednesday it would step up its monitoring
of hate speech, adding 3,000 content reviewers to nearly double
the size of its existing team.
"We take our responsibility to the people who use our products,
to the countries in which we work like Germany, to society at
large, very seriously," Sandberg said on Thursday.
Sandberg announced that Facebook will join an urban mobility
test project in Munich with carmakers and start-ups and said it
will also sponsor a new university in Berlin focused on digital
product development.
Facebook, which has about 30 million active users in Germany out
of a population of 80 million, has run a major advertising
campaign in the country in recent weeks in an attempt to address
concerns about privacy and control of personal data.
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(Reporting by Emma Thomasson; Editing by Elaine Hardcastle)
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