WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify next week before a congressional committee over a political consulting firm’s misuse of customer data to interfere in the presidential election, lawmakers said on Wednesday. Zuckerberg will appear before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11, the panel said on Wednesday. “This…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s decision not to answer questions from British lawmakers about a scandal over the firm’s data is “astonishing,” the parliamentary committee chief who invited him to attend said on Tuesday. “Given the extraordinary evidence that we’ve heard so far today… it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit…
The Cambridge Analytica furor, like the uproar over Russian penetration of Facebook that preceded it, has painted a bullseye on Mark Zuckerberg. I get why he and other social media CEOs are waffling about testifying at congressional hearings: They’re afraid that pictures of their oath-taking will remind people of the tobacco company executives in the…
(JTA) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg responded to growing pressure on the social media company, following reports that a British company used information inappropriately collected from 50 million accounts while working for the Trump presidential campaign. Zuckerberg in a statement Wednesday that he will investigate access to data about users that are currently available to outside…
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will speak today about the growing controversy surrounding the social network platform’s alleged leak of over 50 million users’ personal data, Axios reported. Neither Zuckerberg or Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg had spoken publicly about the scandal as of Wednesday morning. The company announced on Friday that it was suspending Cambridge…
This week, Jewish billionaire George Soros came out storming against the internet. At the global gathering of the financially and politically powerful at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Soros gave a long, withering speech on the state of the world. Part of his analysis was directed at the politics of Russia, the EU, China…
In previous years, Mark Zuckerberg set personal goals for himself: He vowed to learn Mandarin, to read at least two books a month and to travel to as many U.S. states as possible. This year, perhaps grasping the enormous role his social media network played in the 2016 elections and in shaping America’s political discourse,…
The Most Powerful Man In Media And Tech — And That’s Not Fake News Throughout the country — maybe even in your hometown — there have been Mark Zuckerberg sightings. The 33-year-old Facebook founder has left Silicon Valley and gone out among the people, powering through a New Year’s resolution to visit all the states…
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