“After committee staff received a briefing yesterday from Facebook officials, we felt that many questions were left unanswered.”“Mr. Zuckerberg has stated that he would be willing to testify if he is the right person,” they added. The upcoming hearing comes in response to a controversy with Cambridge Analytica, a firm that aided Trump and other Republican political candidates by building psychological profiles of voters. At least five other panels of lawmakers have spoken with the tech giant in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica controversy. While this specific issue involving Cambridge Analytica should no longer happen with new apps today, that doesn't change what happened in the past.

Source: Washington Post March 22, 2018 16:38 UTC