Photo: stephen lam/ReutersFacebook Inc. FB 0.74% Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence five days into a growing uproar about how outsiders handle Facebook’s user data, admitting mistakes and pledging an investigation but failing to calm some who thought he should have gone further in his remarks. In an interview with CNN, Mr. Zuckerberg apologized and said the company had been too trusting of developers in the past. Reports in the New York Times and Britain’s Observer said the episode involved information on some 50 million Facebook users. It also sent the company’s lawyer Colin Stretch rather than Mr. Zuckerberg to testify in Washington. Internally, Mr. Zuckerberg has appeared to take the criticism in stride.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 21, 2018 19:20 UTC