Mark Zuckerberg’s Senate Hearing Indicates A Little Hope For Action
Mark Zuckerberg made an appearance before the United States Senate on Tuesday to defend his company on the subject of regulating internet-based companies. He wass confronted with two significant challenges- How Facebook was unaware that users" information of 87 million people was harvested from his social media platform and abused by the political consultancy, Cambridge Analytica , and how Russia used the social network to spread false information during the 2016 U.S presidential elections. The Facebook boss testified before the Senate Commerce and the Judiciary Committees of 44 members of Senate. Senator Bill Nelson, the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, thinks that the format of the hearing will not give room for a thoughtful debate. " How in the world can you have 44 senators do a hearing that has a lot of substance when each senator only has four minutes? ", he queried. There have been agitations on what the outcome of this hearing would be. Facebook...