Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated his regrets for the social network's lapses of data privacy and security, setting the stage for an apology-laden appearance before Congress.
"We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I’m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here," Zuckerberg's testimony, released ahead of a Wednesday appearance before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said.
Zuckerberg spoke with lawmakers Monday, a day before he is scheduled to testify before the combined Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees Tuesday and the House Commerce committee Wednesday.
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg reiterated his regrets for the social network's lapses of data privacy and security, setting the stage for an apology-laden appearance before Congress.
"We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I’m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here," Zuckerberg's testimony, released ahead of a Wednesday appearance before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, said.
Zuckerberg spoke with lawmakers Monday, a day before he is scheduled to testify before the combined Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees Tuesday and the House Commerce committee Wednesday.
This new election research initiative — one of several changes announced in the last two weeks — comes as Zuckerberg defends the firm he co-founded from calls it should face stricter regulations on how it handles its users' data.
Facebook is improving its privacy settings to make them easier for users to understand and is toughening advertising verification methods to prevent societal tampering in political issues, the company said last week.
The social networking giant continued to take steps to recover from the scandal that it now thinks could involve the data misuse of as many as 87 million people, mostly in the United States, when their data was improperly shared by Cambridge Analytica. The social network said it will begin notifying users Monday if their data was shared as part of the incident.
Concerns about possible ties to the British political consulting firm led Facebook to suspend two more firms — San Francisco-based research firm CubeYou and Canadian digital marketer AggregateIQ — as part of its investigation.
Facebook suspended CubeYou on Sunday after CNBC notified Facebook the researcher had quizzes on the platform that collected user data and shared it with marketers. CubeYou had been working with the Psychometrics Lab at Cambridge University, also the workplace of psychology professor Aleksandr Kogan, who Facebook said passed along data to Cambridge Analytica.
The data was generated by a personality app Kogan created, which was downloaded 270,000 times but connected to more Facebook users who were friends of those who used the app. Facebook last month said it had suspended Cambridge Analytica because it improperly obtained that data from Kogan.
As part of its investigation, CubeYou faces an audit by Facebook. "In addition, we will work with the U.K. (Information Commissioner's office) to ask the University of Cambridge about the development of apps in general by its Psychometrics Centre given this case and the misuse by Kogan," Ime Archibong, Facebook's vice president of product, said in a statement.
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