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Will ensure protection of integrity of upcoming polls in India: Zuckerberg

Will ensure protection of integrity of upcoming polls in India: Zuckerberg

TIL Desk/World/Washington/ Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg during his congressional hearing said that he wants to ensure protection of integrity of elections, mentioning that he knows the importance of the upcoming polls in countries, including India, Hungary and Brazil.

Zuckerberg faced a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. He noted that there are several important elections in 2018 in countries like India, Hungary and Brazil and his company wants to ensure protection of integrity in these elections. The social networking giant chief executive officer also said that there are people dedicated in Russia to sabotage our systems and elections.

When asked by Sen. Dianne Feinstein about what Facebook was doing to prevent foreign actors from interfering in US elections, Zuckerberg said, ” This is one of my top priorities is to get this right. One of my greatest regrets is we were slow in identifying the Russian operations in 2016.”

Zuckerberg, 33, testified before the senators and a House panel amid a firestorm over the alleged hijacking of data of millions of Facebook users by British firm Cambridge Analytica. Zuckerberg began a two-day congressional inquisition with the earlier press statement in his response.

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