In the hope of avoiding future foreign meddling in elections, Facebook said on Friday that it is putting in place a new policy to prevent interference in future elections.
“With important elections coming up in the US, Mexico, Brazil, India, Pakistan and more countries in the next year, one of my top priorities for 2018 is making sure we support positive discourse and prevent interference in these elections,” Zuckerberg said in a Facebook post.
Cambridge Analytica allegedly used data acquired for elections usage in the UK and the US.
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Under fire, after political research firm Cambridge Analytica allegedly used data acquired from an app for elections usage in the United Kingdom and the United States, billionaire Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg will now be testifying before the US Congress next week.
To recall, Bloomberg and CNN had earlier reported that Facebook CEO would testify but hadn’t officially confirmed the schedule. However, the House Energy and Commerce Committee has now announced that Zuckerberg will testify before the committee on April 11th at 10AM ET. “This hearing will be an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online,” Committee Chairman Greg Walden Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. said in a joint statement.
Meanwhile, the FTC has initiated an investigation to determine whether Cambridge Analytica’s data collection violated an earlier consent decree by social media platform Facebook. “The FTC takes very seriously recent press reports raising substantial concerns about the privacy practices of Facebook. Today, the FTC is confirming that it has an open non-public investigation into these practices,” the agency said in a statement.
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