WATCH LIVE: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is grilled by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a day after senators questioned him on Facebook's privacy practices https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/mS2G2OPlhz
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Rep. Anna Eshoo: Was yourdata included in the data sold to the malicious 3rd parties? Mark Zuckerberg: "Yes." Eshoo: Are you willing to change your business model in the interest of protecting individual privacy? Zuckerberg: "Congresswoman, I'm not sure what that means."pic.twitter.com/Sso2lwrtg8
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Rep. Eliot Engel: Do you plan to sue Cambridge Analytica? Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: "We need to understand whether there is something bad going on at Cambridge University overall that requires a stronger action from us." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/ombYnfgE9T
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says he is not aware of any specific hate or terror groups scraping for data on the social platform: "If we find anything suspicious, we will tell everyone affected. We don't allow hate groups on at all." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/68oiroYqom
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"People have the ability to see everything that they have in Facebook, to take that out and delete their account and move their data anywhere they want," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says on question of data portability https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/sHyjLBlbMg
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Rep. Marsha Blackburn: Who do you think owns an individual's presence online? Is it you? Or is it them? Mark Zuckerberg: "I believe everyone owns their own content online and that's the first line of our terms of service, if you read that." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/M8Z6joxl8Y
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Rep. Scalise: Was there a directive to put a bias in Facebook's algorithm? Mark Zuckerberg: "There is absolutely no directive in any of the changes we make to have a bias in anything we do. To the contrary, our goal is to be a platform for all ideas." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/qAgoqOWYlQ
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"We did not allow the Obama campaign to do anything that any developer on the platform would not have otherwise been able to do. There was no special treatment," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/grpnwC6zI7
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Rep. Michael Doyle: It seems as though you turned a blind eye to this, correct? Mark Zuckerberg: "I disagree with that assessment. I do think that going forward, we need to take a more proactive view of policing what the developers do." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/X0r7mVEoVm
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"It's going to take many months to do this full process. It is going to be an expensive process with a lot of auditors, but we think this is the right thing to do at this point," Mark Zuckerberg says of Facebook's plan to audit 3rd party apps https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/1eR5vOHWHT
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"We don't sell data to advertisers. Advertisers don't get access to your data. There is a core misunderstanding about how that system works," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/iQWYvHJWbv
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Rep. Kathy Castor: You are collecting personal information on people who do not even have Facebook accounts, isn't that right? Mark Zuckerberg: "Congresswoman, I don't think that that's what we are tracking." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/rZfVf5XYBu
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"Ad-based business models have been a common way that people have been able to offer free services for a long time, and our social mission of trying to help connect everyone in the world relies on having a service that can be affordable to everyone," Zuckerberg sayspic.twitter.com/Rs8CPC6gfm
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Rep. John Sarbanes: Is it true that Facebook offered to provide to dedicated campaign embeds to both the presidential campaigns? Mark Zuckerberg: "We offer sales support to every campaign." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/njiSuz3ikT
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Rep. John Sarbanes: Can you say they were not special ad approval rights granted to the Trump campaign? Mark Zuckerberg: "Congressman, we apply the same standard to all campaigns."https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/L9CusjZM8X
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"The sheer volume of content on Facebook makes it so that no amount of people we can hire will be enough to review all of the content. We need to rely on and build sophisticated AI tools that can help us flag certain content," Mark Zuckerberg says https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/siFYDUdg8n
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"I have no specific knowledge of any data that we have ever given to Russia," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/Z6i1mWdQ0I
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Rep. Ben Lujan: Have you disclosed to this committee or anyone all information Facebook has uncovered about Russian interference on your platform? Zuckerberg: "Congressman, we are working with the right authorities on that." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/sVxYe1qJ5i
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Rep. Morgan Griffith: Who decides what is misinformation? “There are three categories of fake news that we fight,” Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says. https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/h17EVxJucf
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"We are not collecting any information verbally on the [cell phone] microphone and we don't have any contracts with anyone else who is," Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/Or21oO7Fhd
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company does not give advertisers access to people's data: "I would push back on the idea that we are giving them access to the data. We allow them to reach people, but we are not giving them accessto the data." https://cbsn.ws/2GPGZif pic.twitter.com/2cOwJ2gdkD
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