Mark Zuckerberg’s meeting at the European parliament ended in acrimony, amid a chorus of complaints that the Facebook founder had been allowed to evade questions and give vague answers.
Over the 90-minute session the Facebook founder told MEPs there would be no repeat of the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, as he faced accusations that his company has too much power.
The format meant Zuckerberg spent around 30 minutes giving answers to a 60-minute block of consecutive questions. The 12 MEPs asked dozens of overlapping questions that allowed the Facebook boss to pick and choose his answers. Guy Verhofstadt, the leader of the liberal group, slammed the “pre-cooked format” as “inappropriate” and having ensured Zuckerberg could avoid questions.
Zuckerberg promised his colleague would follow-up with written answers: “I realise there were a lot of specific questions that I didn’t get around to answer,” as he noted the session had run out of time.
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