NEW YORK (AP) — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to 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.
Earlier Wednesday, the House Energy and Commerce Committee announced that Zuckerberg would be testifying at a hearing on April 11.
Lawmakers have called for Zuckerberg to appear personally after revelations that Cambridge Analytica, a Trump-linked political consulting firm, obtained data of tens of millions of users without their permission with the intent of swaying elections. The company has also been under scrutiny after Russians used Facebook and other social media to meddle in the 2016 elections.
Zuckerberg will be the only witness at the hearing.
Flagged as off-topic, not to mention genuinely idiotic, since that’s not at all what Waters is describing.
Edited to add that this was in a response to a post by user davidfarrar posting a YouTube video of an interview of Maxine Waters and claiming something like Google was going to give all of its data to Democrats or some similar wild-assed conspiracy theory and that the Waters interview was “proof.”
There’s a crying need for an alternative to Facebook. A pay model might work, such as WhatsApp, which cost about $1 to join and netted 100s of millions. But Facebook bought them. Time to short Facebook stock?
“Facebook says Cambridge Analytica may have gotten 87 million user files not 50 million.”
Watch how quickly the Senate GOPers try to use the hearing to establish that “Obama’s campaign did the same thing as Cambridge Analytica and nobody cared”.
It is, of course, not even remotely true, but that’s their propaganda and they’re sticking to it.
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2018/03/20/obama-2012-campaign-sucked-data-from-facebook-former-official-says.html
http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/03/26/did-facebook-s-favors-for-obama-campaign-constitute-violation-federal-law.html
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/30/clinton-campaign-app-may-have-harvested-facebook-data-millions.html
Don’t get your hopes up about this being anything other than another opportunity for the GOPers to try to bring down their opposition.
Hard to keep up, but it looks like some bad actors got all of Facebook, about 2 billion users.
Wow, I wonder how Mark handles that one? The only way it gets worse is if Facebook secretly has everyones information.
I’m hoping that Dem. staff prepping for this meeting are reading international news: (This about Duerte- Phillipines). Facebook faced criticism for sending out teams to train politicians around the world, including Duterte, on how to use the platform as a campaign tool.
The MSNBC reported that in January 2016, Facebook “flew in three employees who spent a week holding training session with candidates that include Duterte.”
Read more at https://www.philstar.com/headlines/2018/04/05/1803068/report-uk-firm-heart-facebook-data-scandal-helped-duterte-win-2016-polls#WT1YuTLEWQmstFJr.99