On Wednesday, EU Parliament President Antonio Tajani confirmed that Zuckerberg "will be in Brussels as soon as possible, hopefully already next week" and would meet with parliamentary leaders and an expert on civil liberties and justice. That suggests he will avoid an uncomfortable public appearance and instead meet only with the legislature's top brass behind closed doors. He might get tougher questions in Brussels, where an assertive new European data protection law comes into effect on May 25. Zuckerberg's EU visit will be his first since a whistleblower alleged that Cambridge Analytica improperly harvested information from over 50 million Facebook accounts to help Donald Trump win the 2016 presidential election. Cambridge says none of the Facebook data was used in the Trump campaign, and Facebook is investigating.

Source: ABC News May 16, 2018 15:41 UTC