He defended the company’s advertising business model, confirmed he wants to stay in charge and disclosed no “meaningful impact” from an online campaign by some users to delete their Facebook accounts. Australia’s government said it has started a formal investigation into whether Facebook breached the country’s privacy laws. Zuckerberg is scheduled to appear before a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committee on April 10 to discuss Facebook’s role in society and users’ privacy.

“We’re broadening our view of our responsibility.” It was my mistake,” Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg said on a conference call with reporters. “We didn’t take a broad enough view of what our responsibility was and that was a huge mistake. It has resulted in calls from legislators and policy makers for greater regulation of social media, helping to shave billion of dollars from the company’s market value.

This is Facebook’s first official confirmation of the possible scope of the data leak, which was previously estimated at roughly 50 million. “So we have now disabled this feature.”įacebook also said data on as many as 87 million people, most of them in the U.S., may have been improperly shared with research firm Cambridge Analytica.

“Given the scale and sophistication of the activity we’ve seen, we believe most people on Facebook could have had their public profile scraped in this way,” the company said.

That was being used by malicious actors to scrape public profile information, it said. The company said it removed a feature that let users enter phone numbers or email addresses into Facebook’s search tool to find other people.

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