Washington • Mark Zuckerberg is set to return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, where the Facebook chief executive will face off against a second panel of congressional lawmakers ready to grill him about the social network’s privacy practices and efforts to combat disinformation, including Russian propaganda.
The hearing — before the House Energy and Commerce Committee — will be Zuckerberg’s second in as many days. On Tuesday, he apologized and defended his company in a rare joint Senate session that lasted nearly five hours.
Driving lawmakers’ scrutiny is the controversy around Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy tapped by President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign that improperly accessed the names, “likes” and other personal information of millions of Facebook users.