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LONDON: Facebook’s founder Mark Zuckerberg will not personally give evidence to a British parliamentary committee inquiry into fake news, a letter to the committee said.
Rebecca Stimson, Facebook’s head of public policy, said in the letter submitted to Damian Collins, the chair of the digital, culture, media and sport select committee, that Zuckerberg was ready to send one of his deputies to give evidence to British lawmakers.
Stimson said the deputies “report directly to Mr Zuckerberg and are among the longest-serving senior representatives in Facebook’s 15-year history. Both of them have extensive expertise in these issues and are well placed to answer the committee’s questions on these complex subjects.”
The committee had asked Zuckerberg to provide evidence following the allegations that a U.K.-based IT firm, Cambridge Analytica, breached privacy rules in harvesting data from millions of Facebook users in the U.S.
“The allegations are clearly very concerning; it is absolutely right they should be properly investigated,” May told the House of Commons. “The Board of Cambridge Analytica has announced today that it has suspended CEO Alexander Nix with immediate effect, pending a full, independent investigation,” the firm said in a press release shortly after the Channel 4 report. AA
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