Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg will not attend a world assembly in Canada this week to debate misinformation and election interference, CNN studies.
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Fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg do not plan to attend a listening to in Canada, later this week, CNN reported Monday, regardless of being subpoenaed by a Canadian Parliament committee.
The Fb executives had been invited earlier this month to look earlier than the Worldwide Grand Committee on Large Knowledge, Privateness and Democracy in Ottawa on Might 28, however neither responded. Zuckerberg additionally ignored requests to deal with a Canadian committee trying into election meddling and disinformation on Fb.
Not attending the listening to might consequence within the executives being held in contempt of parliament, however the subpoena can solely be enforced if Zuckerberg and Sandberg go to Canada.
Lawmakers from about 210 nations are anticipated to attend the assembly, which is scheduled to be held in Ottawa on Tuesday. Zuckerberg additionally declined to attend a joint worldwide listening to in London final yr to analyze disinformation and election interference.
Fb informed CNN that as an alternative of Zuckerberg and Sandberg, it is sending to the assembly Kevin Chan, its head of public coverage for Fb Canada, and Neil Potts, its director of public coverage.
Final yr, Zuckerberg testified earlier than Congress following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, by which information from as many as 87 million Fb customers was improperly shared with the political consultancy.
Fb did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
