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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will not be speaking to EU policy makers on Tuesday, reports said.
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Instead of appearing before the top European politicians to answer questions about the possible role of Facebook in spreading misinformation, CEO Mark Zuckerberg will send a representative.
Richard Allan, vice president of Facebook for political solutions, will testify on Tuesday before a committee of legislators from Argentina, Brazil, Britain, Canada, Ireland, Latvia and Singapore, the Washington Post reported.
But Zuckerberg's decision to send a replacement has apparently not stood up well in Europe.
"The committee still believes that Mark Zuckerberg is the right person to answer important questions about privacy, security, security and data sharing," the committee members said in a statement.
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European lawmakers have expressed concern over how social media companies handle hate speech and terrorism on their platforms. In May, Zuckerberg was questioned about Facebook incidents by Brussels leaders.
In other parts of the world, the company has large commercial agreements. Facebook is preparing to host its first data center in Asia in Singapore, which will cost $ 1 billion to the social media giant.
Zuckerberg's decision not to testify before the UK-led committee comes as Facebook faces scrutiny over how he, his operations manager, Sheryl Sandberg, has guided the company. during the last years. Critics have called for his resignation from his presidential post in the midst of a series of scandals calling into question the credibility of the social media giant.
But the CEO recently said he did not intend to leave – and he hoped to continue working with Sandberg.
On Wednesday, Facebook's outgoing leader Elliot Schrage took on the responsibility of recruiting a Republican law firm to fend off his critics, Vanity Fair reported.
George Soros, billionaire democrat philanthropist, is a frequent target of conservative critics.
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The company, known as Definers, was charged with investigating George Soros, the billionaire philanthropist Democrat, a frequent target of conservatives. Soros called for increased scrutiny of the technology society.
In response to Schrage's statement, Sandberg wrote that some Definers workers "had crossed my office," after previously stating that she did not know the company well.
Facebook has also been confronted with the way in which it treats users' personal data and their use to incite violence against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar and Russian efforts to use the platform to sow discord before the day. Presidential election of 2016.
