The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
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Tuesday, January 01, 2019 02:45 PM
Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg Gets Grilled In House Over Site's Failure To Protect Information of 87 Million Users
“We are calling you here today ... to examine these alarming reports,” said Oregon GOP Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the House Commerce committee. “While Facebook has certainly grown, I fear it hasn't matured. We hope you can help us and the American people.”
Zuckerberg testified before the committee on his final day on Capitol Hill -- after five grueling hours of testimony Tuesday before a joint hearing of the Senate’s Commerce and Judiciary committees.
The 33-year-old tech tycoon came to Washington this week to explain a series of recent problems for the social media behemoth -- foremost how political data company Cambridge Analytica, associated with Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign, got its hands of the personal information of the 87 million Facebook users.
Zuckerberg, who in 2004 cofounded Facebook from his Harvard dorm, began his week by meeting privately Monday with senators and making behind-the scenes apologies.
“Looking back, it's clear we were too slow identifying election interference in 2016, and we need to do better in future elections,” he said in an open letter posted on Facebook, minutes before meeting privately with the senators.