Facebook’s chief executive will tell Congress this week that the social media company did not do enough to prevent its tools from being used for harm, as he prepares for two days of grilling about the leakage of personal information of 87m users.
Mark Zuckerberg said advertisers and developers would never take priority over Facebook’s mission of “connecting people” as long as he was leading the social network, according to prepared testimony published by the House commerce committee.
The Facebook founder said the company had made “mistakes” that allowed the leak of data of up to 87m users to Cambridge Analytica, the analytics firm that worked for the Trump presidential campaign. In his testimony, he listed the series of changes that Facebook had made in the three weeks since the revelations but admitted there was “more to do”.