--- title: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Set to Testify Before Congress description: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the Congress on April 11. He will discuss Facebook's "use and protection of user data" canonical: https://time.com/5227492/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-congress-testimony/ author: TIME Staff article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-04-04T12:42:30.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-12T09:05:04.677Z article:section: Politics og:title: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congress Next Week og:description: He'll discuss Facebook's "use and protection of user data" og:url: https://time.com/5227492/facebook-mark-zuckerberg-congress-testimony/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf48e0c35c0f1ec96/69892cc597cdff03466b4d95/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-testimony.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4000 og:image:height: 2250 og:image:alt: Mark Zuckerberg at Oculus Connect 4 Event og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congress Next Week twitter:description: He'll discuss Facebook's "use and protection of user data" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf48e0c35c0f1ec96/69892cc597cdff03466b4d95/mark-zuckerberg-facebook-testimony.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Will Testify Before Congress Next Week > Sponsored content. 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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized in an interview Thursday, saying that the exposure of users’ data to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica “was a major breach of trust,” and that he was “really sorry that this happened.”_ by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 4, 2018 12:42 PM UTC Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg apologized in an interview Thursday, saying that the exposure of users’ data to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica “was a major breach of trust,” and that he was “really sorry that this happened.” by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Apr 4, 2018 12:42 PM UTC (WASHINGTON) — The leaders of a House oversight committee say Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before the panel on April 11. In an announcement Wednesday, Reps. Greg Walden and Frank Pallone say the hearing will focus on the Facebook’s “use and protection of user data.” Facebook is facing scrutiny over its data collection following allegations that the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica obtained data on tens of millions of Facebook users to try to influence elections. Walden, R-Ore., is the House Energy and Commerce committee’s chairman. Pallone of New Jersey is the panel’s top ranking Democrat. They say the hearing will be “an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online.” ## Transcript This was a major breach of trust and I'm really sorry that this happened. We have a basic responsibility to protect people's data, and if we can't do that then we don't deserve to have the opportunity to serve people. Going forward, when we identify apps that are similarly doing sketchy things We're gonna make sure that we tell people then too. Right, that's definitely something that, looking back on this, I regret that we didn't do it at the time and I think we got that wrong. And we're committed to getting that right going forward. I actually I'm not sure we shouldn't be regulated. I think in general, technology is an increasing. Increasingly important trend in the world and I actually think the question is more what is the right regulation rather than yes or no should it be regulated. I mean there's a lot of hard work that we need to do to make it harder for nation states like Russia to do election interference, to make it so that trolls and other folks can't spread fake news. But we can get in front of this and we have a responsibility to do this, not only for the 2018 midterms in the US which are going to be a huge deal this year. And that's just a huge focus of us. But there's a big election in India this year. There's a big election in Brazil. There are big elections around the world and that you can bet we are really committed to doing everything that we need to to make sure that the integrity of those elections on Facebook is secure. Facebook testifies in Congress regularly on a number of topics, some high profile and some not, and our objective Is always to provide Congress, this extremely important job, to have the most information that they can. Well see a small slice of activity on Facebook but Congress gets to have access to the information across Facebook and all other companies and the intelligence community and everything. So what we try to do. Is send the person at Facebook who will have the most knowledge about what Congress is trying to earn. 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