Published On : Wed, Mar 28th, 2018

Facebook’s Zuckerberg has decided to testify before US Congress

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After repeated calls for him to do so, Mark Zuckerberg has decided he will testify before US Congress.

Facebook sources tell CNNMoney the 33-year-old CEO has come to terms with the fact that he will have to testify before Congress within a matter of weeks, and Facebook is currently planning the strategy for his testimony.

The pressure from lawmakers, the media and the public has become too intense to justify anything less.

The Facebook sources believe Zuckerberg’s willingness to testify will also put pressure on Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to do the same. Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley has officially invited all three CEOs to a hearing on data privacy on April 10.

Zuckerberg today turned down a request from British lawmakers to answer questions on the social network’s privacy practices and will send two deputies instead.

Facebook has been enduring a crisis of trust ever since it was revealed that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, reportedly accessed information from about 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge.