Zuckerberg last spring called for tighter regulations to protect consumers' data, control harmful online content and ensure election integrity and data portability. — AFP
The Senate's most vocal critic of the tech industry offered a challenge to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Sell your WhatsApp and Instagram properties to prove you're serious about protecting data privacy.
It may have been more than Zuckerberg expected from his private meeting with Sen Josh Hawley, a conservative Republican from Missouri, in his Capitol Hill office. Zuckerberg left the hourlong meeting – one of several with lawmakers on Capitol Hill – without answering questions from a throng of reporters and photographers pursuing him down a hallway.
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