When Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg appears before Congress this week, he’s kicking things off with an apology — an expansive one.
Facebook didn’t do enough to prevent its platform from being used to do harm, and that goes for “fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy,” Zuckerberg says. “We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I’m sorry.”
Zuckerberg’s prepared testimony for his appearance in front of a House of Representatives committee has been released online. He speaks in front of a joint meeting of two Senate committees on Tuesday, and then the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday.
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