Mark Zuckerberg will appear in the United States House on April 11 to testify on the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
The CEO of Facebook will have a face-to-face meeting with representatives of the Commission for Energy and Commerce in which he will have to clarify the role of the social network in the affair relating to the data breach of 50 million users and their use for electoral purposes. According to the "allegations" the British company allegedly exploited the data of Facebook users for the purpose of favor Donald Trump's run for the US presidency (as well as to affect the Brexit referendum).
Zuckerberg's testimony will begin at 10.00:XNUMX am (East Coast Time) and will address "business use and user data protection."
Congressmen Greg Walden and Frank Pallone, chairman and committee member, respectively, said in a statement that the hearing "will be an important opportunity forr shed light on critical privacy issues dand consumer data and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online.
However, Zuckerberg has no intention of appearing unprepared before US deputies. Facebook has indeed decided to close “over 270 pages and accounts managed by a Russian organization called Internet Research Agency", the Kremlin-linked agency which in February was accused by the special prosecutor who is investigating Russiagate of fraud against the US and "aggravated identity theft" in his activities around the 2016 US presidential elections.
Through the post published on the official profile, Zuckerberg explained to users that "many of our actions against the IRA to date have been designed to prevent it from interfering in foreign elections" because "this Russian agency has repeatedly acted deceptively and tried to manipulate people in the US, Europe and Russia. We don't want them on Facebook." The CEO added that “while we respect people and governments who share political views on Facebook, we won't allow them to create fake accounts to do so. When an organization does this repeatedly, we take down their pages, including those that may not be fake."
In the meantime, the defeat of technology stocks on the stock exchanges continues, which today are also weighed down by the war between China and the US on tariffs. On the Nasdaq, a few minutes before the start of trading, the Facebook title it dropped 2.8% to 151,56 dollars.
