Yesterday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the United States Congress in the wake of a scandal which saw the personal data of 87 million Facebook users harvested by Cambridge Analytica.
Zuckerberg spoke of the “ongoing arms race” of companies and countries trying to interfere with elections via Facebook, and admitted that he regretted not acting sooner to clamp down on the disinformation spread by Russian trolls during the United States presidental election.
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