US senators hearing in data theft: ‘will do everything to ensure fair polls’,  Facebook CEO
US senators hearing in data theft: ‘will do everything to ensure fair polls’, Facebook CEO
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Washington [U.S.A.], Apr. 11 (NT): Testifying before US senators in the wake of Social Media platform Facebook's data theft scandal and foreign meddling in the election, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has asserted them that his company will do everything to ensure fair elections takes place in India and other countries.

"2018 is an important year for the whole world. Several countries like India, Pakistan will have elections. We'll do everything possible to ensure these elections are safe," Zuckerberg stated in the joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees, at the Capitol Hill here as ANI reported.

Earlier, the CEO and founder of the world's most well-liked social networking giant stated he was "sorry" that Facebook did not take a "broad enough view" of the accountability when their platform was being used for circulating fake news and was becoming a tool for foreign meddling in polling.

The 33-year-old billionaire also was repentant that his company was slow in identifying the Russian operations in 2016, which allegedly offered profit to the then-presidential candidate, Donald Trump, who is now become USA's 45th president.

The hearing is taking place after reports started bucketing in March that the social networking site had the negotiation with the personal data of over 87 million Facebook users to Britain-based Cambridge Analytica. It was allegedly influenced voters during the 2016 US Presidential elections.

 

 

 

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