Facebook's Zuckerberg to testify before US Congress twice next week

April 07, 2018 00:06

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will face questions from two congressional panels next week about how his company handles its users' data.

He's set to appear before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday afternoon followed by a House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing the following morning.

"Our joint hearing will be a public conversation with the CEO of this powerful and influential company about his vision for addressing problems that have generated significant concern about Facebook's role in our democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy," Senator John Thune, the chairman of the Commerce Committee, said in a statement.

Sen Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee said the hearing "will explore approaches to privacy that satisfy consumer expectations while encouraging innovation."

Facebook has been under fire after the revelation last month that the data firm Cambridge Analytica was able to access information from tens of millions of Facebook users without their knowledge, and lawmakers have been clamoring for Zuckerberg to testify.

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