Democratic Sens. Ed Markey and Amy Klobuchar want Mark Zuckerberg to testify to Congress under oath about Facebook.
Markey responded to Zuckerberg’s statement on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, writing on Facebook, “You need to come to Congress and testify to this under oath.”
Klobuchar tweeted: “The steps Facebook has laid out to protect its users are a start but Zuckerberg still needs to come testify.”
“Facebook should show good faith & support the Honest Ads Act. To truly regain the public’s trust, Facebook must make significant changes so this doesn’t happen again,” she added.
Their request comes after Zuckerberg, Facebook’s CEO, broke his silence five days after the news broke this weekend that Cambridge Analytica, a data firm with ties to President Donald Trump’s campaign, reportedly accessed information from about 50 million Facebook users without their knowledge.
Zuckerberg pledged Wednesday to take a series of steps to protect data and fix what he called a “breach of trust” between the social network and its users.
“We have a responsibility to protect your data, and if we can’t then we don’t deserve to serve you,” Zuckerberg wrote in a Facebook post. “I’ve been working to understand exactly what happened and how to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
Zuckerberg is also set to speak with CNN’s Laurie Segall in an interview to be broadcast on “Anderson Cooper 360” at 9 p.m. ET.
Markey’s message comes a day after Christopher Wylie, a former Cambridge Analytica contractor, agreed to speak to Congress amid growing calls on Capitol Hill for him to testify.
Christopher Wylie, the Cambridge Analytica contractor who has spoken out in recent days about the company, agreed to give an interview and documents to House Intelligence Committee Democrats, according to a committee official. A spokesman for Wylie also confirmed this to CNN.
