Apologetic Zuckerberg offers mea culpa on first day of hearings
The man in the middle of a firestorm over privacy offered a full mea culpa at a joint hearing of two Senate committees
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The man in the middle of a firestorm over privacy offered a full mea culpa at a joint hearing of two Senate committees
"I want to be careful because our work with the special counsel is confidential," social media mogul told senators
"A great many Americans...are deeply concerned that Facebook and other tech companies are engaged in a pervasive pattern of bias and political censorship," said Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. The Facebook CEO responded that he is committed to free expression of ideas on the social network.
"If you and other social media companies do not get your act in order, none of us are going to have any privacy anymore. That is what we are facing," says Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, as he grilled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the issues of internet privacy.
During testimony, Dick Durbin asked Mark Zuckerberg if he would share what hotel he stayed at last night.
James Comey's 2017 hearing was nearly three hours long. Anita Hill's 1991 hearing was six hours. Hillary Clinton's 2015 hearing was 11 hours. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg joins the list of high-profile people to testify before Congress, with two hearings scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
Senator Dick Durbin's question drew laughs from the chamber as Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg refused to say what hotel he stayed in overnight and who he's messaged online. Durbin also asked about the security of Facebook's Messenger Kids app.
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When asked if anyone at Facebook notified the FTC that millions of user accounts had been compromised, he answered in the negative.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg told Senators that he was ready to take their questions, and that Facebook was working hard to make users' data safer
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"We think Facebook needs to be accountable, transparent and I'm glad Mr. Zuckerberg is appearing today," Sen. John Thune says
Wired editor-in-chief and CBS News contributor Nicholas Thompson interviewed Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg last month about the social media platform's privacy problem. Thompson joins "CBS This Morning" to discuss what we can expect from Zuckerberg's congressional hearing.
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