Mark Zuckerberg Is Testifying Before The Senate Today About Facebook

This is what's going on:

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is affirming before two Senate panels today following quite a while of exceptional feedback over the social stage's part in Russia impacting the 2016 presidential decision and after a huge number of clients had their own data abused by a political examination firm utilized by Trump's crusade.

This is an immense test for Zuckerberg, who has gone under feedback for quite a long time for just settling issues with the stage after open shock or confessions by the news media. What's more, it's a major ordeal for the billions of Facebook clients around the globe — they're going to see a tech official who has some of their most individual data get flame broiled.

Only as of late, for instance, Facebook said 50 million clients had their information traded off by Cambridge Analytica. It later said that number was up to 87 million individuals.

"Counterfeit news, remote impedance in races and despise discourse, and also engineers and information security. We didn't take a sufficiently expansive perspective of our duty, and that was a major misstep," Zuckerberg will state in composed declaration submitted for a hearing before a House council Wednesday. "It was my error, and I'm sad. I began Facebook, I run it and I'm in charge of what occurs here." *BuzzFeed News will run a livestream of the procedures here. Take after Alex Kantrowitz, will's identity in the hearing, and Emma Loop, Tasneem Nashrulla, and Talal Ansari, will's identity viewing.