Recent Facebook privacy scandal and the hearings in Congress, mark Zuckerberg (local time):
8:20 PM
The discussion forum reddit, the company published its report transparency in 2017 in the Senate, the General Director of Facebook mark Zuckerberg, stating that he found and banned 944 suspicious accounts connected with Russian agencies and Internet research.
The Director-General on reddit, Steve Huffman said in the post that the company is working with the Congress and briefed lawmakers on its findings on Tuesday.
Senator mark Warner welcomed the announcement in a statement, saying that all technological platforms are required to prevent hostile foreign forces from interfering in elections in the United States.
The update came during a five-hour appearance, Zuckerberg before a joint Senate hearing before the Committee. The senators questioned him about privacy on the wave of Pro-trump collection mining firm Cambridge data Analytics on Facebook millions of Americans without their knowledge.
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6:55 PM
CEO mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook had not seen a decline in the use in light of the scandal of the Cambridge analyst.
Zuckerberg has already said last week that the company saw “significant impact” from the campaigns “delete Facebook” or from some high-profile departures, such as Elon Musk pulls their pages from the site.
Hearing Tuesday in Congress is the first of two Zuckerberg-person this week to answer questions about protecting the privacy of Facebook and other issues.
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6:25 PM.
If he notes any indication, the General Director of Facebook mark Zuckerberg is expected to senators to ask if he could resign. His notes to acknowledge that he made a mistake and saying the company faces “a big problem”, but it’s the same thing.
Notes Zuckerberg was briefly visible photographer the associated Press during the hearing on Tuesday in which he answered questions about his personal life, interference with elections and other issues.
Bullet-pointed pages includes sections “diversity,” “competition,” and GDPR, the European data-privacy rules that will come into force next month. Notes Zuckerberg to warn him: “not to say that we are already doing that GDPR requires”.
Notes even refer to Tim cook, Apple CEO, who recently criticized Facebook. One comment says there’s “a lot of stories about applications to abuse Apple never seen Apple to notify people.”
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6:20 PM
Senator Richard Blumenthal was evidence on Tuesday, grilling CEO of Facebook, mark Zuckerberg.
Former attorney General of Connecticut is what his staff called a previously unknown agreement, in which Facebook was given to the researcher in the center of the scandal in Cambridge the analyst permission to sell data collected from Facebook users via a survey 2014.
Facebook said that they were deceived by the researcher, the survey which was used to collect data on 87 million users.
Blumenthal asked if the document violated a decree 2011 consent on increase the privacy of the users of Facebook that have reached with the Federal trade Commission.
Zuckerberg said no, but added that the document was “in conflict” with the rules of Facebook.
Blumenthal decried by Facebook “profile willfull blindness” and insisted that it will only change his image with strict rules.
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5:40 PM
CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg assured the legislators that he learned a lot since launching the social network in his Harvard Dorm 14 years ago.
Approximately 2.2 billion people now using Facebook one can only hope that the sight of Zuckerberg on his personal life has changed.
Not long after Zuckerberg started Facebook when he was 19 years old, he was mocking the people who entrusted him with their letters, photos and other sensitive information while instant messaging with a friend. The exchange was received and published in 2010, business Insider.
After his friends asked him how he got so much information about 4,000 people, Zuckerberg said they “trust me” and then described people as “dumb” for it is punctuated with profanity.
Zuckerberg later apologized for remarks in a 2010 interview with “new Yorker” and said he “learned a lot and grown.”
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5:10 PM
Investors uniting to Facebook CEO mark Zuckerberg will appear before Congress to answer questions about the recent scandal privacy social media giant.
Facebook shares rose 4.5% to $165.04, their biggest percentage gain for nearly two years.
Came about half arrived in the early afternoon, as the overall market rose on signs of loosening trade tensions between the US and China. Shares received on Facebook, as Zuckerberg answered questions from senators in search of explanations, as Facebook failed to prevent mining companies from collecting personal information by 87 million users and is the company doing enough to protect user data.
Facebook shares are still down about 11 percent after the scandal last month broke out because of concerns about stricter regulation of companies in social media.
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5 hours
CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg said that the company doesn’t need to know, if someone set up a shell Corporation to run political advertising in the United States to circumvent the verification process of the company.
The company recently announced that it will require political advertisers and those working on so-called political “game” — to check who they are and what they have a physical address. Facebook will test this by asking for a number and mail a special code, the physical address of the advertiser to check it out.
Zuckerberg, answering questions, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode island, who asked how the company can check the “true beneficiary” of the website, which puts political material.
Hearing Tuesday in Congress is the first of two Zuckerberg-person this week to answer questions about protecting the privacy of Facebook and other issues.
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4:50 PM
Crisis management experts say that the CEO of Facebook looks a little shaky at points, but overall work well to appear cooperative and sincere.
Mike Chapple of the University of Notre Dame Professor, said Zuckerberg did a good overall job.
Chapple said: “as far as I can tell, the answers he supplies are accurate, he was upfront about the mistakes they made in the past and seeks to correct problems in the future.”
But Dartmouth business Professor Paul Argenti said that it was “staged and cautious”.
Said he: “he must have said 15 times – I’ll tell my people to get in touch with you. There is a formality about how he’s presenting himself.”
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4:35 PM
CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg says the company is “responsible for content” on its site.
This deviation from the Internet companies have traditionally viewed itself as a neutral platform, generally is not responsible for what people post and share on their services.
But Zuckerberg, who testified before a rare joint congressional Committee on Tuesday, said that Facebook should take “wider” its responsibility in the world.
He also says that advances in artificial intelligence mean, companies like Facebook will have to think about actively removing unwanted content, for example, not just reactive after someone flags it. This, he says, is the “moral and legal” obligation issues.
Facebook already takes some materials, such as suspected terrorist propaganda, before anyone sees it. But as it systems improve, it is likely to be able to remove other content.
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4:30 PM
Texas Senator Ted Cruz says many Americans are concerned that Facebook has a bias against conservatives.
The interrogation of the General Director of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg at a hearing in the Senate on Tuesday, Republican Senator and former presidential candidate from the Republican party, said that for many people there “appear to be the broad pattern of political bias” after some conservative pages were removed from the platform. In a series of pointed questions, Cruz asked Zuckerberg if he had monitored the political leanings of their employees.
Zuckerberg said that he had not. But he noted that the company is based in Silicon valley, left, and said, “this is a fair concern.”
Cambridge Analytics, a data analysis firm allegedly collected personal information about users of Facebook, boasted in helping Cruz win the Iowa Caucus in 2016.
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3:55 PM
CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg said that his company “works with” special attorney Robert Mueller in his probe on Russia’s intervention.
Earlier this year, Mueller will be charged 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies in the plot to intervene in the presidential election of 2016 through social media and outreach efforts, which included the purchase of online ad, using the aliases of the US and politicking in the USA. Some Russian ads on Facebook.
Zuckerberg says he was not personally interviewed and he said that he did not know if the company was summoned to the court.
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3:50 PM
Asked Senator Lindsey Graham, if Facebook has a monopoly, CEO mark Zuckerberg said it was “certainly not feel that way to me.”
Zuckerberg in front of the 44 senators in a rare joint hearing of the Committee to talk about how his company protects user data and transactions with the election intervention, among other issues. He says that Facebook has many competitors and protested against naming just one.
He says Facebook provides a “variety of services”, and that the average person uses eight different apps for communicating with friends.
Some critics who say that Facebook is too large, it should be forced offshoot applications such as whatsapp and Instagram.
Overall, Facebook is considered a “duopoly” with Google when it comes to market. It has a few competitors on other fronts, including Twitter, snapchat and different messaging apps worldwide
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3:45 PM
CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg is trying to convince American lawmakers, who fear that Russia and other foreign powers will use the social network to intervene in the upcoming midterm elections.
The first public testimony on Capitol hill 33-year-old told deputies that in 2018 is “incredibly important” for elections around the world, including the US , India and Brazil.
He says that Facebook launched a new artificial intelligence tools that do a better job to identify fake accounts. This is intended to prevent interference of elections by foreign actors — Zuckerberg says it’s “arms race”.
He said in the past that the company is in better shape this year than it was on the US presidential election in 2016, when Facebook is said to be used by Moscow to sow discord among Americans.
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3:40 PM
Facebook may have artificial intelligence tools in the next five to 10 years, which will definitely hate the flag.
CEO mark Zuckerberg said at the hearings in the Senate that he hopes that in this period of time the company will have tools that can get into the “language nuances” to be more accurate in marking messages that use hate speech.
Today, he said, “we just do not have anything.”
Zuckerberg in front of the 44 senators within a rare joint Committee hearing to address how his company handles users ‘ privacy and other issues.
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3:30 PM
CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg said that “it was an obvious error” to believe in these company Cambridge Analytics Facebook has removed the information gathered in an attempt to influence the election.
A former employee of the Cambridge analyst in London based data analysis firm with ties to U.S. President Donald trump, said that the company has gathered the information of tens of millions of Facebook users, without their permission. Firm received information through the Facebook app in order to build psychological profiles on most of the U.S. electorate.
Zuckerberg said that the company considered the data collection a “closed case,” because they thought that the data was removed. He said that they handle it differently.
He said that the company warns the Federal Trade Commission on data collection.
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3:05 PM
CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg in front of the 44 senators within a rare joint Committee hearing to address how his company handles users ‘ privacy and other issues.
Zuckerberg said in his opening statement Tuesday that Facebook has not done enough to prevent its tools can be used for harm. This, he says, is fake news, elections, foreign intervention, hate and privacy.
Zuckerberg apologized, as he has in the past, and says that he is “responsible” for what happens on Facebook. Zuckerberg also confirmed that the company is in the process of investigation of apps that have access to user data. He says the company is exploring “many applications” in the tens of thousands.
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2:40 PM
A man dressed in a sharp blue and green wig, trying to look like a Russian Troll, watched from the back of the room, as the Senate kicked off hearings with the General Director of Facebook mark Zuckerberg. The man wore a red and blue Russian flag on the neck.
Other protesters held up signs that said “stop Corporate espionage.”
The Chairman of the judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley said that the crowd was not large by the standards of the platform that the giant social network. But the courtroom was full, with a line of hundreds of people waited in the hallway and in nearby building office.
Zuckerberg will testify in the Senate on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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2:15 PM
The first two congressional hearings with the CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg started.
Zuckerberg will testify in the Senate on Tuesday and Wednesday. He agreed to testify after revelations that Cambridge data Analytics and mining firm affiliated with the presidential campaign, Donald trump has collected personal information from 87 million users, to try to influence the election.
The senators should also ask him about the intervention of Russia on the platform of the company for the 2016 elections.
In a speech published on Monday, Zuckerberg apologized for the scandal is privacy and not recognizing sooner the intervention of Russia.
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2 PM
Twitter says that the support Of honest advertising, a bipartisan bill designed to make online political advertising more transparent, by showing who paid for them, among other information.
Recently Facebook made in support of the bill. The company’s CEO, mark Zuckerberg, is testifying before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday on users of personal data and other issues, including the intervention of foreign elections.
Google, Facebook and Twitter were questioned last fall on the Russian election interference using their platform and all three asked if they would like to support the bill. Google did not immediately respond to a request for comment Tuesday Afternoon.
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12:30 PM
Facebook two new Federal lawsuits on charges of violating the trust of millions of users whose personal data together with data-mining firm Cambridge intelligence.
In California the lawsuit, filed on Monday, seeks a court order to stop what he calls unfair and fraudulent business practices in Facebook.
In the case of Delaware filed Tuesday alleges that Facebook has violated the agreement in 2011, the Federal Trade Commission. It also names Cambridge analyst and business partners, as defendants, alleging they had committed fraud using social network to obtain personal information about at least 80 million users of Facebook without their knowledge and consent.
How to get the status of a class action. Lawyers in the Delaware case, they say that they are known about a dozen similar lawsuits. Facebook declined to comment, but referred to previous statements that called the actions of the Cambridge analyst breach of trust.
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10 am
Facebook began warning some users that their data is swept up in the scandal Cambridge privacy analyst.
Said on Tuesday, a notice that appeared on Facebook for some users that “one of your friends” use Facebook to log in now-banned personality quiz app called “Your Digital life”. The notification says that the app is incorrect information, including profile, likes page, date of birth and the city, sharing its data with firm Cambridge intelligence.
As many as 87 million users who may have been their Total data was to obtain a detailed report about their news, starting Monday. Facebook claims that more than 70 million affected users are in the US, although there are more than a million each in the Philippines, Indonesia and the UK.
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1:45 am
Experts doubt that Facebook is fundamentally changing its relationship with users, or simply patching holes in her deep need for user data to sell advertising.
CEO mark Zuckerberg, speaking before Congress on Tuesday and Wednesday in the Wake of revelations that Pro-Donald trump data Analytics firm Cambridge scooped million Facebook users ‘ data without their knowledge.
Researchers say it’s unlikely that Facebook will upset their business model, which allows advertisers to precisely target users, even the company clamps down on information it transmits to the developers.
And analysts on wall Street are counting on Facebook to survive the rebellion of the users shares fell nearly 4 percent after a nine-month low hit late last month.
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12:10 am
After privately assured the senators that his company will do better, CEO of Facebook mark Zuckerberg held a two-day Inquisition in Congress that will be very public and may be crucial for his massive company.
Zuckerberg visited with senators meeting behind closed doors Monday, the viewing public an apology he plans to give to Congress on Tuesday after revelations that the data-mining Analytics firm Cambridge have collected personal information from 87 million users, to try to influence the election.
Zuckerberg will testify before a joint meeting of two Senate committees on Tuesday and before the house panel on Wednesday.
In a prepared statement released Monday by the Committee on energy and Commerce chamber, Zuckerberg apologizes for fake news, hate, lack of confidentiality and Russian social networks intervention in the elections of 2016.
Sourse: abcnews.go.com
