Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg apologized to US officials Tuesday for the leak of individual information on a huge number of clients as he confronted a moment of retribution before Congress thinking about control of the worldwide online networking mammoth.



Mark Zuckerberg kept on focusing on that Facebook will fortify its regulation of the applications it permits gathering Facebook client information in another meeting with CNN. He stressed that the standards that brought about Cambridge Analytica's capacity to abuse the information of Facebook clients have since been additionally refreshed and confined and that Facebook will coordinate much more limitations to forestall to mining of clients' information without their insight.

Zuckerberg also reiterated the apology he made in a Wednesday blog post addressing the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

"It was my mistake, and I'm sorry," Zuckerberg said in prepared testimony. "I started Facebook, I run it, and I'm responsible for what happens here."

“This was a major breach of trust and I’m really sorry that this happened,” he said. “We have a basic responsibility to protect people’s data. And if we can’t do that, then we don’t deserve to have the opportunity to serve people. So our responsibility now is to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.”

“It’s hard to know what we’ll find,” he said. “We’re going to review thousands of apps. So this is going to be an intensive process, but this is important.”

Zuckerberg couldn't give a solid answer on whether Facebook influenced the result of the 2016 election, and said it's " hard to fully assess " how all the diverse parts of political association that keep running on Facebook — and the terrible performers — contrasted with on-the-ground battling.
To ensure this never happens again, Zuckerberg promised to " hire thousands of more people " to get the new framework set up in front of US midterm elections in November, beginning the procedure in the United States and taking it worldwide in the coming months.