Lawmakers Push Zuckerberg On Security, Diversity, Drug Sales On Facebook
Updated at 1:16 p.m. ET
After five hours of testimony before a joint session of two Senate committees on Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg returned to the Capitol for a second day of grilling — this time before the House.
Zuckerberg is taking questions from the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Representatives have taken a generally sharp tone, pushing Zuckerberg to commit to yes or no questions and occasionally exclaiming with mock surprise when he protests that he can't answer.
And the questions have extended far beyond questions of security, privacy and data-sharing, to address diversity at Facebook headquarters and whether the company is tacitly allowing illegal drug sales on the platform.
You can watch the video live above or on YouTube via PBS.
The hearing comes in the wake of a scandal in which Facebook user data was sold to Cambridge Analytica, a third-party group that assisted the Trump campaign. (Cambridge Analytica says it did not use the Facebook data in its 2016 election work.)
Zuckerberg has repeatedly apologized for the Cambridge Analytica scandal, while blaming the
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