Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings. SUBSCRIBE Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees as well and the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 10 and 11 respectively, the committees announced Wednesday. The public testimony will be Zuckerberg's first before the U.S. government and comes after Facebook has been the subject of broad criticism and numerous legal inquiries over how the user information of as many as 87 million Facebook users ended up in the possession of a data-analysis firm that worked with President Donald Trump's election campaign. “This hearing will be an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online," Reps. Greg Walden, R-Ore., and Frank Pallone Jr., D-N.J., said in a statement. Zuckerberg’s testimony … [Read more...] about Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Senate, House committees
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Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify, faces calls to step down as Facebook chairman
By Levi Sumagaysay | [email protected] | PUBLISHED: April 5, 2018 at 8:41 am | UPDATED: April 5, 2018 at 10:22 am Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is scheduled to testify at two Congressional hearings next week, but he and the company are doing plenty of talking in advance in an effort to contain the damage from the company’s latest privacy scandal — including calls for him to step down as chairman of the company he founded. Their message: They can see clearly now, and they’re on it. “It’s not enough to just connect people, we have to make sure that those connections are positive and that they’re bringing people closer together,” he said during the one-hour call. “It’s not enough to just give people a voice, we have to make sure that people are not using that voice to hurt people or spread disinformation.” Zuckerberg and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg are making the media rounds in the wake of revelations last … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg prepares to testify, faces calls to step down as Facebook chairman
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Senate too
WASHINGTON -- Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed he will testify in a second congressional hearing next week, this time in the Senate. Zuckerberg will appear at a rare joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees on April 10 -- a day before testifying at the House Energy and Commerce Committee. The social media giant is reeling from a privacy scandal over its data collection following allegations that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained data on about 87 million Facebook users to try to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. Mark Zuckerberg says he's not stepping down at Facebook, nobody fired after data scandal Reps. Greg Walden, R-Oregon, and Frank Pallone, D-New Jersey, said the House panel hearing will focus on the Facebook's "use and protection of user data." Walden is the House committee's Republican chairman and Pallone is the panel's top Democrat. "This hearing will be an important opportunity to shed light … [Read more...] about Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Senate too
Mark Zuckerberg says he’s not stepping down at Facebook, nobody fired after data scandal
Last Updated Apr 4, 2018 5:49 PM EDT Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told reporters on a Wednesday conference call that as many as 87 million accounts may have been accessed by Cambridge Analytica, significantly above a previous estimate of 50 million. In a lengthy Q&A session, Zuckerberg said that there was still a degree of uncertainty over just how much data had been obtained by the firm and Cambridge researcher Aleksandr Kogan, who devised the app they used to mine user profiles."We don't know how many people's data Kogan got and what he sold to Cambridge Analytica," Zuckerberg said. He said that the initial estimate of 50 million accounts was from a third party, and that he was "confident that it's not more than 87 million — it could be less." A 37 million-person margin of error is an enormous cushion, much bigger on its own than most data breaches. "We didn't take a broad enough view what our responsibility was," Zuckerberg said on the conference call, explaining how … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg says he’s not stepping down at Facebook, nobody fired after data scandal
Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook’s Treatment of Private User Data Is a ‘Mess Up’
In a recent call with members of the media, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg commented on the company’s treatment of private data by saying that when building an “unprecedented” platform like Facebook, “there are going to be things that you mess up.” Speaking to a number of reporters and media professionals, including Breitbart News, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg answered questions about the future of Facebook following the company’s latest user data scandal. The company revealed earlier today that more user data was accessed by data analysis firm Cambridge Analytica than previously thought, “In total, we believe the Facebook information of up to 87 million people — mostly in the US — may have been improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica,” stated Facebook.During the call held earlier today, NBC Tech correspondent Alyssa Newcomb asked Zuckerberg “you’ve said in the past that you’ve clearly made some … [Read more...] about Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook’s Treatment of Private User Data Is a ‘Mess Up’