EU MPs Join US in Calling for Breakup of Facebook ‘Digital Monster’ – Prof.
SputnikNews.com
23.05.2018
EU lawmaker Guy Verhofstadt has told Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg that he may be remembered as “a genius who created a digital monster.” The MEP made the remark at a hearing over a massive Facebook data leak affecting millions of users. Digital communications specialist Dr. Amy Binns told Sputnik she was disappointed about the hearing’s format.
Sputnik: What are your thoughts about Mr. Zuckerberg’s hearing at the European Parliament?
Amy Binns: It was really a very odd format, and one that the Europeans use a great deal, which is that everybody on the panel gets to ask all their questions. [This] means a whole hour of the 90 minute session is taken up with the politicians asking questions one after another, and only then is Mr. Zuckerberg supposed to reply to all the questions at once. So there was only 30 minutes for him to answer all the questions he had been asked in 60 minutes.
Now obviously there is no way he can answer all of the questions, and it’s a format that allows him to choose which questions he wants to answer; so of course he’s going to pick the easy ones. Really it was up to the European Parliament, to the politicians, to pick a better format than this, because this was never going to go well in my opinion.
Sputnik: Are we going to get answers from Mr. Zuckerberg at some later date? How do you think this situation is going to develop?
Amy Binns: He agreed to provide written answers to the questions he hadn’t had time to answer. But Facebook is very good at preparing press releases that really don’t say very much. So I think this is a missed opportunity. I don’t think we’re going to get much more that is interesting or definite from Mr. Zuckerberg on this.
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