The key takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg's press tour

Amid mounting pressure from customers and regulators, Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg broke his public silence Wednesday about the widening Cambridge Analytica scandal. He began with a prepared statement posted on his Facebook page followed by interviews with CNN, Recode, Wired and the New York Times - conversations that offered deeper insight into his perspective on what might amount to the company's biggest crisis.

Here are some key takeaways from Zuckerberg's press tour:

_Zuckerberg blames Facebook's naivety.

Facebook's rise from a service that judged whether Harvard students were hot or not to the world's largest social network was, by any means, meteoric. In the interviews, Zuckerberg makes the case that in his company's early days, he never could have anticipated the problems Facebook now faces.

"If you had asked me, when I got started with Facebook, if one