Zuck tells of ‘mistakes’ in data scandal

FACEBOOK honcho Mark Zuckerberg offered to testify before Congress over the Cambridge Analytica scandal as he apologized for the first time for allowing personal data to be misused in the leadup to the 2016 presidential election.

After five days of silence, Zuckerberg appeared on CNN on Wednesday night and addressed the scandal by saying, “So this was a major breach of trust, and I’m really sorry that this happened.”

“You know, we have a basic responsibility to protect people’s data,” he said. “And if we can’t do that, then we don’t deserve to have the opportunity to serve people. So our responsibility now is to make sure that this doesn’t happen again.”

Facebook has been embroiled in scandal since it was revealed Friday that the Trump campaign-connected data-mining firm Cambridge Analytica improperly accessed personal information on more than 50 million users.

The British-based company used the information to create complex algorithms that could have influenced Americans to vote for Trump. U.S. and British officials have questioned how Facebook could have allowed this to happen.