Cambridge Analytica scandal: Mark Zuckerberg refuses to appear before MPs

Facebook will send one of his deputies to face parliamentary committee questions

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has declined a request by MPs to appear before a parliamentary committee to give evidence in response to allegations that user data was misused.

The social media behemoth has been “under pressure since the revelations that vast swathes of data were held by British firm Cambridge Analytica”, says Bloomberg, after a researcher obtained the data from a third-party app hosted on Facebook and passed it on to the data analysis firm.

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