Zuckerberg apologises to European Parliament lawmakers

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has apologised to European Parliament lawmakers for its role in the Cambridge Analytica scandal and for allowing fake news to proliferate on its platform.

Cambridge Analytica, which denied any wrongdoing, is accused of acquiring data from millions of Facebook profiles for use in political campaigns.

In opening remarks, shared ahead of the hearing, Zuckerberg apologised for Facebook's tools being used "for harm" adding that was a mistake.

Zuckerberg did not address questions about whether Facebook was a monopoly and how it plans to use data from its WhatsApp division.

Nor did he directly answer questions about shadow profiles or whether non‑Facebook users' data should be collected.

[Source: BBC]