Zuckerberg stands firm

FACEBOOK chief executive Mark Zuckerberg has fielded 10 hours of questions over two days from nearly 100 US politicians and emerged largely unscathed.

He parried questions of how much control people have over their data on the world’s largest social media network without a major gaffe, while avoiding being cornered into supporting new government regulation.

The hearings that ended yesterday revealed no consensus among US politicians about what kind of privacy legislation they might want to pursue.