Old Apologies But No New Promises: Zuckerberg’s Senate Hearing
Zuckerberg refused to make any promises to support new legislation or change how the social network does business.
Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday, 11 April, navigated through the first of two US congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the social network makes money.
During nearly five hours of questioning by 44 US senators, Mark Zuckerberg repeated apologies he previously made for a range of problems that have beset Facebook, from a lack of data protection to Russian agents using Facebook to influence US elections.
But the 33-year-old internet mogul managed to deflect any specific promises to support any congressional regulation of the world's largest social media network and other US internet companies.
"I'll have my team follow up with you so that way we can have this discussion across the different categories where I think this discussion needs to happen," Mark Zuckerberg told a joint hearing by the US Senate's Commerce and Judiciary committees, when asked what regulations he thought were necessary.
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