Zuckerberg to Testify Before Congress on April 10 and 11

UPDATE: Zuckerberg will begin his Capitol Hill appearances on Apr x, testifying before a joint meeting of the Senate Judiciary and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committees.

The Facebook CEO is currently the sole witness at the hearing, which begins at 2:xv p.one thousand. ET and volition focus on "Facebook, Social Media Privacy, and the Employ and Corruption of Data."

"Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company almost his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy," Commerce Chairman John Thune said in a statement.

"Social media has revolutionized the way we communicate, using data to connect people from around the world. With all of the data exchanged over Facebook and other platforms, users deserve to know how their data is shared and secured. This hearing will explore approaches to privacy that satisfy consumer expectations while encouraging innovation," Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley added.

Yesterday, Facebook revealed that the Cambridge Analytica leak mayhap afflicted up to 87 million users.

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Marker Zuckerberg is officially headed to Capitol Hill to testify before Congress on the Cambridge Analytica data leak.

The House Energy and Commerce Committee has appear that Facebook's CEO will show on Wednesday, Apr 11 at x a.m. about "the company'south apply and protection of user data" post-obit the revelation that 50 million Facebook users had their data leaked to the political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, which assisted Donald Trump'due south campaign in the 2022 election.

"This hearing will exist an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer information privacy bug and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online," Committee Chairman Greg Walden (R-OR) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) said in a argument. "We capeesh Mr. Zuckerberg's willingness to testify before the committee, and we look forward to him answering our questions on April 11."

In a statement to PCMag, a Facebook spokesperson confirmed the Energy and Commerce Committee's proclamation and said that "conversations with the other committees keep." US lawmakers have asked Facebook's CEO to testify before at least three Congressional committees.

Last week, CNN reported that Zuckerberg had "come up to terms with the fact that he will have to testify before Congress" and had started planning for it. During a media blitz late concluding month, Zuckerberg said he was open to testifying, but too suggested someone from his legal squad might be better suited to announced.

"If...I am the about informed person at Facebook in the best position to testify, I volition happily do that," he said.

Meanwhile, Facebook recently turned down a request for its CEO to appear before a UK parliament committee on the same issue. The company instead decided to make two senior executives bachelor for the hearing.

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