Facebook CEO terms Pakistan’s coming election important

Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder, chairman and CEO of Facebook, appeared before lawmakers in US Congress for the first time on Tuesday to answer questions about how his social networking juggernaut handles its 2.2 billion users’ private data, as well as the role the company played in Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.

During his testimony Mark mentioned that 2018 is very crucial year for some years because elections are going to take place in those countries and he mentioned the name of Pakistan twice on different occasions that elections are going to held in Pakistan in 2018.

The 33-year-old tech titan faced an onslaught of 44 senators from the chamber’s Judiciary and Commerce committees — all eager to maximize their allotted five minutes for grilling the witness.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on Tuesday that the company has been working with Special Counsel Mueller.
Zuckerberg clarified he had not personally been interviewed but others within the company had been.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified to a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees Tuesday that Facebook is cooperating with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation.
“I know we are working with them,” Zuckerberg said during the hearing.
When asked by Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont about Facebook’s involvement with Mueller’s investigation, Zuckerberg confirmed the cooperation but refused to divulge additional information.

“I want to be careful here, because that work is confidential. We are in open session and I don’t want to reveal anything that is confidential,” Zuckerberg said.
Zuckerberg clarified that he had not personally been interviewed by Mueller’s team but that others in the company had. When asked if Facebook had been issued a subpoena Zuckerberg first said they had, before backpedaling.
“I have to clarify that I’m not sure that there are subpoenas, there may be,” he said.
The company is facing questions following reports that research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly gained access to the personal data of as many as 87 million Facebook users.
Zuckerberg is likely to face tough questions on user privacy, foreign meddling on the site and abuse of social media tools.
He’s scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday. His prepared remarks for that hearing were released Monday.