INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg faced a barrage of questions from lawmakers in Washington on Tuesday, an advocacy group staged a
public spectacle of its own
Members placed 100 life-size cutouts of Zuckerberg on the lawn outside the Capitol, each wearing a T-shirt with the words "Fix Fakebook.The
crowd of cardboard Zuckerbergs, planted between the Capitol building and the Library of Congress, was designed to call attention to the fake
accounts that spread disinformation on the social network, according to Avaaz, a global activist network that organized the public display
The installation coincided with the first day that Zuckerberg testified before congressional lawmakers, who are demanding that he explain
how Facebook came to compromise the privacy of tens of millions of Americans and helped spread false news, as well as disinformation from
D.C., where Zuckerberg was testifying (WP)Avaaz said in a statement that it "is calling on the CEO to ban all bots, alert the public any and
every time users see fake or disinformation, fund fact checkers around the world, and submit to an independent audit to review the scale and
scope of fake news.Zuckerberg testified before a joint session of two Senate panels - the Commerce and Judiciary committees - Tuesday
waiting for the start of the hearing (Bloomberg)As many as 43 senators are set to question Zuckerberg, including Sen
Christopher Coons, D-Del., who said on Twitter that he has learned of two fake Facebook accounts that are impersonating him and are
associated with what appear to be Russian accounts."On today of all days, I just found out that there are two fake Facebook accounts
impersonating me, and guess what Many of the 'friends' appear to be Russian accounts
Zuckerberg-this is unacceptable," he tweeted.(This story has not been edited by TheIndianSubcontinent staff and is auto-generated from a
