Lawmakers Push Zuckerberg On Security, Diversity, Drug Sales On Facebook

After five hours of testimony before a joint session of two Senate committees on Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to the Capitol for a second straight day of grilling — this time before the House.

For another five hours, Zuckerberg took questions from the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Representatives took a generally sharp tone, pushing Zuckerberg to commit to yes or no questions and occasionally exclaiming with mock surprise when he protested that he couldn't answer.

And the questions extended far beyond questions of security, privacy and data-sharing, to address diversity at Facebook headquarters and whether the company is tacitly allowing illegal drug sales on the platform.

You can watch video of the proceedings above, or on YouTube via PBS. Or, of course, read on for highlights.

The Congressional hearings, Zuckerberg's first, come in the wake of a scandal in which Facebook user data was sold to Cambridge Analytica, a third-party group that assisted the Trump campaign. (Cambridge Analytica says it did not use the Facebook data in its 2016 election work.)

Zuckerberg has repeatedly apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, while blaming the information-sharing on a researcher who, according to Facebook, violated the platform's terms of service.

Zuckerberg says he found out that the data was sold to Cambridge Analytica after The Guardian reported on the issue.

He told members of the House that his own data was included in the privacy breach. - Read More, NPR

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