Mark Zuckerberg vows to fight election meddling in marathon Senate grilling
by David Smith in Washington from Technology | The Guardian on (#3MDF7)
Facebook's CEO appeared before Congress in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal to address concerns over users' data
Mark Zuckerberg, the Facebook chief executive, warned on Tuesday of an online propaganda "arms race" with Russia and vowed that fighting interference in elections around the world is now his top priority.
The 33-year-old billionaire, during testimony that lasted nearly five hours, was speaking to Congress in what was widely seen as a moment of reckoning for America's tech industry. It came in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which, Facebook has admitted, the personal information of up to 87 million users were harvested without their permission.
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