The New York Times: Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg Gets an Earful From the E.U.

31.07.2018

The Facebook chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, went to the European Parliament in Brussels on Tuesday to answer lawmakers’ questions over his social media company’s handling of user data. Credit: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

European lawmakers barraged Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, on Tuesday with a litany of questions about his company’s global power, its role in elections and its misuse of user data. One even raised the prospect of breaking up the social media giant.

But the meeting in Brussels ended with members of the European Parliament complaining that Mr. Zuckerberg had used the session’s odd format to evade specific questions and just repeat statements he had made in the past. Several shouted follow-up questions out of turn, one complained that he had asked six yes-or-no questions to which he received no clear reply, and another argued that Mr. Zuckerberg had used the event’s structure to deliberately sidestep details.

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