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The EU Parliament has some questions for Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Tajani confirmed in a tweet on Wednesday that the Facebook CEO has accepted his invitation, and said the appearance could happen as early as next week.
Zuckerberg will meet the leaders of the political groups, as well as the chair and the rapporteur of the Committee for Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs. The focus of the meetings will be on the potential impact of Facebook on electoral processes in Europe, as well as other aspects of personal data protection.
Tajani extended an invitation to Zuckerberg to appear in Brussels in the early days of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, which first made headlines in March. In April, Zuckerberg testified before Congress regarding Cambridge Analytica, data privacy, Russian interference in the 2016 US election and how the social network handles political points of view.
But in spite of his trips to Washington and Brussels, the Facebook CEO apparently isn't amenable to talking to all politicians about his company's role in the scandal. He has declined to speak to British politicians on multiple occasions -- the latest rejection taking place only on Tuesday -- despite being threatened with a potential formal summons by Parliament.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by requerdanos on Wednesday May 16 2018, @07:22PM (5 children)
Dear Esteemed Editor,
It may not have been mentioned during the training, but the part above in all caps has been delegated to you by the bot authors that provide our site with quality submissions that we* are too lazy to manually seek out. Thank you.
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* At least I personally have proven to be, and judging by the bot/human ratio in story submissions, so is practically everyone else. Whoever came up with these bots, thank you. I would have said ahead of time that they would not do a good job. Thank you for not asking me--they are fantastic.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 16 2018, @09:44PM (1 child)
Wait... Arthur is a bot? I mean, I always wondered at the large number of stories attributed to him, but... Wow. Next you're going to make something up about the Soul Cake Duck, aren't you?
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Wednesday May 16 2018, @11:39PM
Well, maybe Arthur is a bot, and maybe he's just a very prolific submitter who never comments and has a cool bot to help him.
There is a bot named Arthur, either way.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday May 17 2018, @02:24AM (2 children)
https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?noupdate=1&sid=25632&page=1&cid=680592 [soylentnews.org]
I can only say 'Sorry' again.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday May 17 2018, @01:01PM (1 child)
I was just enjoying the rare opportunity to poke fun at "the editing around here", in the person of you in particular. It was fixed within minutes and not an issue, as I fully expected, which is why I was hurrying to get that post in before it was so!
Apologies if it came across as insulting or ungrateful. I genuinely appreciate the work you do, for which you have no need to apologize in any way, even if the occasional minor mistake slips through.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Thursday May 17 2018, @03:48PM
No offence taken - but when I cock up I don't mind admitting it! And as a team, we don't object to the occasional well-intentioned dig when we deserve it.