Mark Zuckerberg has long avoided going before the European Parliament to answer questions, and on Tuesday, it was easy to see why. European MEPs boldly went where members of the US Congress feared to tread, hammering the Facebook chief executive with weighty questions. MEP after MEP laid into an increasingly stony-faced Zuckerberg, pelting him with incisive broad questions and needling on specifics. And it was obvious that company strategy was to have Zuckerberg group questions under prepared broad topic headings to which he had rehearsed talking point answers. Facebook will not have drawn a single ounce of comfort from the Europeans, and will go away with plenty to worry about.

Source: The Irish Times May 22, 2018 19:18 UTC