Mark Zuckerberg Has Agreed To EU Meetings Over Cambridge Analytica After Snubbing UK Hearings

After Mark Zuckerberg appeared for a committee hearing in the US senate last month, over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, he was expected to also make his way across the Atlantic for another hearing in the UK, home to CA¡¯s sister company.

In fact, he ended up ditching that meeting and is instead appearing before the European Parliament.

Zuckerberg at the US Senate hearing last month - Reuters

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Today, European parliament president Antonio Tajani announced that Zuckerberg accepted their invitation to for a meet. ¡°The founder and CEO of Facebook has accepted our invitation and will be in Brussels as soon as possible, hopefully already next week, to meet the leaders of the political groups and the Chair and the Rapporteur of the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE),¡± he said in a statement.

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The thing is, just yesterday Zuckerberg refused to appear for a parliamentary committee hearing in the UK, something the country has been demanding of him for months. After months of rejection, it¡¯s probably galling to the UK to have Zuckerberg readily agree to an EU meet.

But that¡¯s also another important bit, the EU parliament is hosting a meeting with Zuckerberg, and not a public hearing. Clearly restoring confidence is taking precedence over recrimination here. However, the EU has also mentioned there will later be a hearing, ¡°with an opportunity to carry out an in-depth analysis of aspects related to personal data protection.¡± But while that will focus on possible electoral interference, it won¡¯t include the beleaguered CEO.

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