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Damian Collins

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Quentin Letts

sees an international Commons panel

‘empty-chair’ the Facebook billionaire

Few expected Zuck to

show ... and he didn’t

AC E B O O K ’S

b illio n a ir e

b oss Ma rk Zu ckerb erg

‘s e n t h is c a t ’ t o a n in t e r n a -

t io n a l c o m m it t e e h e a r in g

in We s t m in s t e r. To ‘s e n d

yo u r c a t ’, we le a r n e d fr o m B e lgia n

p o lit ic ia n N e le L ijn e n , wa s a F le m -

is h wa y o f s a yin g ‘fa il t o s h o w u p ’.

C a n a d a ’s C h a r lie A n g u s w a s le s s

p o e t ic . M r Z u c k e r b e r g h a d ‘d e c id e d

t o b lo w o ff t h e m e e t in g ’.

T h e 23- s t r o n g c o m m it t e e c o n t a in e d

p a r lia m e n t a r ia n s fr o m B r it a in , F r a n c e , ,

Ar ge n t in a , C a n a d a , B e lgiu m , B r a zil, Ir e -

la n d , S in ga p o r e a n d L a t via a n d w a s a s k-

in g a b o u t ‘d is in fo r m a t io n a n d fa k e n e w s ’

a t Fa ceb ook . T h ey m a d e t h e m ost of Mr

Z u c k e r b e r g’s n o n -a t t e n d a n c e .

I t g a ve t h e m s o m e t h in g t o h u ff a n d -

p u ff a b o u t , s o m e t h in g e ve r yo n e c o u ld -

u n d e r s t a n d . S o m u c h e ls e in t h e in t e r n e t -

d a t a w o r ld is d o u b le D u t c h a n d t h e

D u t c h w e r e o n e o f t h e fe w n a t io n s n o t

r e p r e s e n t e d a t t h e lo n g, U -s h a p e d c o m -

m it t e e t a b le .

Few h a d exp ect ed Mr Zu ckerb erg t o

a p p e a r, ye t a lit t le p la s t ic p a n e l b e a r in g

h is n a m e h a d b e e n p la c e d a t t h e w it n e s s ,

t a b le . T h is a llo w e d a n ‘e m p t y c h a ir ’ p h o -

t ogra p h t o b e t a ken a t t h e st a rt of t h e

m e e t in g . T h e c o m m it t e e im m e d ia t e ly

p o s t e d t h is o n t h e in t e r n e t t o g ive t h e -

im p r e s s io n t h a t B a d Z u c k h a d d o n e a -

r u n n e r a t t h e fin a l m o m e n t .

H m m . T h a t w a s a r g u a b ly a lit t le fa k e - s

-

n e w s y in it s e lf.

M r Z u c k e r b e r g ’s ‘c a t ’ w a s L o r d Alla n

( L ib D e m ) , wh o wo rk s fo r Fa ce b o o k . L o rd

( L ib D e m ) , wh o wo rk s fo r Fa ce b o o k .

t

( R ic h a r d ) Alla n w a s o n c e a n M P

b u t va c a t e d h is S h e ffie ld H a lla m

s

s e a t fo r a ce rt a in N ick Cle gg, wh o

n o w a ls o wo rk s fo r Fa ce b o o k . L o r d

F

Alla n is Cle gg’s J o h n t h e B a p t is t .

Alla n is Cle gg’s J o h n t h e B a p t is t .

T h e s ig h t o f L o r d A lla n s it t in g

a lo n e a t t h e w it n e s s t a b le , fa c in g

t h is m a s s e d in t e r n a t io n a l p a n e l,

h a d t w o e ffe c t s .

I t a c c e n t u a t e d g lo b a l c o n c e r n

a b o u t F a c e b o o k a n d s o c ia l-

m e d ia c o m p a n ie s ; it a ls o m a d e

t h e fi x t u r e l o o k a l i t t l e o n e -

s id e d . S u n X u e lin g , o f t h e p a r lia -

m e n t a r y c o m m it t e e o n d e lib e r a t e

o n lin e fa ls e h o o d s fr o m S in g a p o r e

( t h a t , a h e m , h o t b e d o f fr e e

s p e e c h ) , e x p la in e d t h a t s h e h a d

c r o s s e d t h e w o r ld t o s h o w h o w

c o n c e r n e d p e o p le w e r e a b o u t t h e

d a m a g e s o c ia l m e d ia c a n d o t o

n a t io n a l s e c u r it y, r a c ia l h a r m o n y,

s o c ia l c o h e s io n a n d t r u s t in

n a t io n a l in s t it u t io n s . L o r d Alla n

t h a n k e d h e r fo r m a k in g h e r jo u r-

n e y. H e w a s lik e t h a t , A lla n . T e r-

r ib ly d ip lo m a t ic .

H e h u n c h e d a n d t w is t e d h is

s h o u ld e r s t o c o n ve y U r ia h H e e p -

is h ’u m ilit y. H e w a ve d h is h a n d s t o

em ot e, so m u ch so t h at at on e

p o in t t h e t o p o f h is p e n w e n t

flyin g. D u c k , la d s !

H e r o u n d e d h is e ye s a n d le n t h is

vo ic e A m e r ic a n u p lift t o c o n ve y

h is p a in - s h a r in g . T h e in t e r n a -

t io n a l d e le g a t e s g lo w e r e d – a B e n -

e t t o n a d ve r t in a jo lly b a d m o o d .

T h e c o m m it t e e h a d c o m p la in t s

a b o u t : F a c e b o o k flo g g in g o ff it s

c u s t o m e r s ’ d a t a , n o t r e s p e c t in g

t h e ir p r iva c y s e t t in g s ( L o r d Alla n

p r o n o u n c e d ‘p r iva c y’ in t h e U S

fa s h i o n ) , n o t m a k i n g p r o p e r

c h e c k s o n a s s o c ia t e s a n d a llo w in g

t h e p u b lic a t io n o f d o d g y m a t e r ia l

w h ic h c o u ld in flu e n c e e le c t io n

r e s u lt s a n d fo m e n t d is c o r d .

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r e s u lt s a n d fo m e n t d is c o r d .

L o r d A lla n , s p e a k in g o f ‘t h e

F a c e b o o k c o m m u n it y’, k e p t a p o l-

o g is in g . T h is o r t h a t s h o u ld n o t

h a ve h a p p e n e d . G r e a t e r e ffo r t s

w o u ld b e m a d e in fu t u r e t o p r e -

ve n t t h e ir r e c u r r e n c e .

Yo u r e a lis e d h o w s e r io u s t h e s e

m a t t ers were wh en we h ea rd t h a t

a F a c e b o o k p o s t in S r i L a n k a

u r g e d t h e m u r d e r o f M u s lim s .

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g

O R D Alla n s a id F a c e b o o k

w a s a s s e m b lin g ‘a d ic t io n -

a r y o f h a t e -s p e e c h t e r m s ’.

Wa s t h e e v e n t in s o m e

w a ys o ve r-t h e a t r ic a l? Ye s . B u t t h e

s o c ia l-m e d ia g ia n t s d o w ie ld e n o r-

m o u s c lo u t .

I n fr o n t o f m e , a h e a v y - e y e d

A r g e n t in e , L e o p o ld o M o r e a u ,

k e p t jo k in g w it h h is in t e r p r e t e r, a

yo u n g m a n w it h s h a k y h a n d s a n d

a w o n k ily-g e lle d h a ir d o . Wh e n h is

c h a n c e fo r q u e s t io n s c a m e , t h e

in t e r p r e t e r d id m u c h o f t h e ve r b a l

fe n c in g w it h L o r d Alla n .

T h e c o m m it t e e ’s c h a ir m a n , p u b -

lic it y-p r o n e To r y M P D a m ia n C o l-

lin s , g r u m b le d a b o u t R u s s ia n s

u s in g F a c e b o o k t o in flu e n c e w e s t -

e r n d e m o c r a t ic e le c t io n s . I t m a y

o r m a y n o t b e w o r t h n o t in g t h a t

M r C o llin s is a R e m a in e r. H e w a s

d is p le a s e d w h e n L o r d Alla n vo l-

u n t e e r e d F a c e b o o k ’s h e lp in w r it -

in g ‘r e g u la t o r y fr a m e w o r k s ’. ‘T h a t

s h o u ld b e u p t o p a r lia m e n t s t o

d e c id e ,’ s n a p p e d M r C o llin s .

An I r is h M P, E a m o n R ya n , w a s

w o r k in g o n a la p t o p w h ic h s u d -

d e n ly s t a r t e d m a k in g s t r a n g e

n o is e s . U n a b le t o s h u t it u p , h e

t o o k it o u t o f t h e r o o m . S e e ? I f

o n ly M a r k Z u c k e r b e r g h a d b e e n

t h e r e , h e w o u ld h a ve k n o w n w h ic h

b u t t on t o p ress.

Com m en t – Pa ge 16

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Missing: Yesterday’s 23-strong international panel – and Mr Zuckerberg’s empty chair

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Damian Collins

Zuckerberg

in

snub to

‘fake

news’ probe

MPs “empty chaired” Face-

book boss Mark Zucker-

berg after he refused to face

questions on fake news.

The firm instead sent VP

of policy Richard Allan to

face parliamentarians

from around the world.

The Committee released

a photo of the empty chair.

Damian Collins, chair of

Parliament’s inquiry on

fake news, claimed Face-

book knew about Russian

activity in 2014.

He said seized emails

showed an engineer had

warned “entities with

Russian IP addresses”

accessed “three billion

data points a day”.

But Facebook said it had

found “no evidence of

specific Russian activity”.

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Damian Collins

Facebook boss admits

need for more oversight

FACEBOOK bosses knew of a

possible Russian cyber attack

years before details emerged, an

MP claimed yesterday.

Damian Collins, chairman of the

parliamentary inquiry into fake

news, said a Facebook engineer

warned hackers had attempted to

get data in 2014.

But the social media giant yes-

terday claimed they found no evi-

dence of Russian activity.

Richard Allan, the social media

giant’s vice-president of policy

solutions, admitted at a “interna-

tional grand committee” in West-

minster that the Cambridge Ana-

lytica data harvesting scandal had

damaged public trust in the com-

pany.

He insisted they were making

progress in tackling fake news,

claiming 50 per cent of “low qual-

ity” posts had been removed from

the site. But Mr Allan, who also

sits in the Lords, admitted the

company needs greater oversight

from politicians amid fears of

political interference in elections.

Damian Collins told Allan in

front of lawmakers from nine

countries: “An engineer at Face-

book notified the company in

October of 2014 that an entity

with Russian IP addresses had

been using a Pinterest API key to

pull over three billion data points

a day.”

Lord Allan said the email cache

referred to by Mr Collins was “at

best partial, at worst potentially

misleading” and had come from a

“hostile litigant”.

A Facebook spokeswoman later

said: “The engineers who had ini-

tially flagged these initial concerns

subsequently looked into this fur-

ther and found no evidence of spe-

cific Russian activity.” In a scath-

ing attack, Charlie Angus, the vice

chair of a privacy committee said:

“Our democratic institutions, our

form of civil conversation, seem to

have been upended by frat boy bil-

lionaires from California.

“I put it to you that you have

lost the trust of the international

community to self-police.”

Lord Allan added: “We recognise

through our own actions and

external events that we are not in

a good place in terms of trust.”

Hildegarde Naughton, chair-

woman of the Irish joint commit-

tee on communications, said: “In

light of the fake news and data

breaches that your company has

been involved in over the last two

years, do you accept that Face-

book needs to be regulated?”

“So... yes,” Lord Allan replied.

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Damian Collins

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Quentin Letts

sees an international Commons panel

‘empty-chair’ the Facebook billionaire

Few expected Zuck to

show... and he didn’t

AC E B O O K ’S

b illio n a ir e

b oss Ma rk Zu ckerb erg

‘s e n t h is c a t ’ t o a n in t e r n a -

t io n a l c o m m it t e e h e a r in g

in We s t m in s t e r. To ‘s e n d

yo u r c a t ’, we le a r n e d fr o m B e lgia n

p o lit ic ia n N e le L ijn e n , wa s a F le m -

is h wa y o f s a yin g ‘fa il t o s h o w u p ’.

C a n a d a ’s C h a r lie A n g u s w a s le s s

p o e t ic . M r Z u c k e r b e r g h a d ‘d e c id e d

t o b lo w o ff t h e m e e t in g ’.

T h e 23- s t r o n g c o m m it t e e c o n t a in e d

p a r lia m e n t a r ia n s fr o m B r it a in , F r a n c e ,

Ar ge n t in a , C a n a d a , B e lgiu m , B r a zil, Ir e -

la n d , S in ga p o r e a n d L a t via a n d w a s a s k-

in g a b o u t ‘d is in fo r m a t io n a n d fa k e n e w s ’

a t Fa ceb ook . T h ey m a d e t h e m ost of Mr

Z u c k e r b e r g’s n o n -a t t e n d a n c e .

I t g a ve t h e m s o m e t h in g t o h u ff a n d

p u ff a b o u t , s o m e t h in g e ve r yo n e c o u ld -

u n d e r s t a n d . S o m u c h e ls e in t h e in t e r n e t -

d a t a w o r ld is d o u b le D u t c h a n d t h e -

D u t c h w e r e o n e o f t h e fe w n a t io n s n o t -

r e p r e s e n t e d a t t h e lo n g, U -s h a p e d c o m -

m it t e e t a b le .

Few h a d exp ect ed Mr Zu ckerb erg t o

a p p e a r, ye t a lit t le p la s t ic p a n e l b e a r in g

h is n a m e h a d b e e n p la c e d a t t h e w it n e s s

t a b le . T h is a llo w e d a n ‘e m p t y c h a ir ’ p h o -

t ogra p h t o b e t a ken a t t h e st a rt of t h e

m e e t in g . T h e c o m m it t e e im m e d ia t e ly

p o s t e d t h is o n t h e in t e r n e t t o g ive

t h e im p r e s s io n t h a t B a d Z u c k h a d

d o n e a r u n n e r a t t h e fi n a l

m om en t .

H m m . T h a t w a s a r g u a b ly a lit t le

fa k e -n e w s y in it s e lf.

M r Z u c k e r b e r g ’s ‘c a t ’ w a s L o r d

Alla n ( L ib D e m ) , w h o w o r k s fo r

F a c e b o o k . L o r d ( R ic h a r d ) A lla n

w a s o n c e a n M P b u t va c a t e d h is

S h e ffie ld H a lla m s e a t fo r a ce rt a in

N ick Cle gg, wh o n o w a ls o wo rk s fo r

F a c e b o o k . L o r d A lla n is C le g g ’s

F

J o h n t h e B a p t is t .

T h e s ig h t o f L o r d A lla n s it t in g

a lo n e a t t h e w it n e s s t a b le , fa c in g

t h is m a s s e d in t e r n a t io n a l p a n e l,

h a d t w o e ffe c t s .

I t a c c e n t u a t e d g lo b a l c o n c e r n

a b o u t F a c e b o o k a n d s o c ia l-

m e d ia c o m p a n ie s ; it a ls o m a d e

t h e fi x t u r e l o o k a l i t t l e o n e -

s id e d . S u n X u e lin g , o f t h e p a r lia -

m e n t a r y c o m m it t e e o n d e lib e r a t e

o n lin e fa ls e h o o d s fr o m S in g a p o r e

( t h a t , a h e m , h o t b e d o f fr e e

s p e e c h ) , e x p la in e d t h a t s h e h a d

c r o s s e d t h e w o r ld t o s h o w h o w

c o n c e r n e d p e o p le w e r e a b o u t t h e

d a m a g e s o c ia l m e d ia c a n d o t o

n a t io n a l s e c u r it y, r a c ia l h a r m o n y,

s o c ia l c o h e s io n a n d t r u s t in

n a t io n a l in s t it u t io n s . L o r d Alla n

t h a n k e d h e r fo r m a k in g h e r jo u r-

n e y. H e w a s lik e t h a t , A lla n . T e r-

r ib ly d ip lo m a t ic .

H e h u n c h e d a n d t w is t e d h is

s h o u ld e r s t o c o n ve y U r ia h H e e p -

is h ’u m ilit y. H e w a ve d h is h a n d s t o

em ot e, so m u ch so t h at at on e

p o in t t h e t o p o f h is p e n w e n t

flyin g. D u c k , la d s !

H e r o u n d e d h is e ye s a n d le n t h is

vo ic e A m e r ic a n u p lift t o c o n ve y

h is p a in - s h a r in g . T h e in t e r n a -

t io n a l d e le g a t e s g lo w e r e d – a B e n -

e t t o n a d ve r t in a jo lly b a d m o o d .

T h e c o m m it t e e h a d c o m p la in t s

a b o u t : F a c e b o o k flo g g in g o ff it s

c u s t o m e r s ’ d a t a , n o t r e s p e c t in g

t h e ir p r iva c y s e t t in g s ( L o r d Alla n

p r o n o u n c e d ‘p r iva c y’ in t h e U S

fa s h i o n ) , n o t m a k i n g p r o p e r

c h e c k s o n a s s o c ia t e s a n d a llo w in g

t h e p u b lic a t io n o f d o d g y m a t e r ia l

w h ic h c o u ld in flu e n c e e le c t io n

r e s u l t s a n d fo m e n t d i s c o r d .

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r e s u l t s a n d fo m e n t d i s c o r d .

L o r d Alla n , s p e a k in g o f ‘t h e F a c e -

b o o k c o m m u n it y’, k e p t a p o lo g is -

in g. T h is o r t h a t s h o u ld n o t h a ve

h a p p e n e d . G r e a t e r e ffo r t s w o u ld

b e m a d e in fu t u r e t o p r e ve n t t h e ir

recu rren ce.

Yo u r e a lis e d h o w s e r io u s t h e s e

m a t t ers were wh en we h ea rd t h a t

a F a c e b o o k p o s t in S r i L a n k a

u r g e d t h e m u r d e r o f M u s lim s .

O R D Alla n s a id F a c e b o o k

w a s a s s e m b lin g ‘a d ic t io n -

a r y o f h a t e -s p e e c h t e r m s ’.

Wa s t h e e v e n t in s o m e

w a ys o ve r-t h e a t r ic a l? Ye s . B u t t h e

s o c ia l-m e d ia g ia n t s d o w ie ld e n o r-

m o u s c lo u t .

I n fr o n t o f m e , a h e a v y - e y e d

Ar ge n t in e , L e o p o ld o M o r e a u , k e p t

jo k in g w it h h is in t e r p r e t e r, a yo u n g

m a n w it h s h a k y h a n d s a n d a w o n -

k ily-g e lle d h a ir d o . Wh e n h is

c h a n c e fo r q u e s t io n s c a m e , t h e

in t e r p r e t e r d id m u c h o f t h e ve r b a l

fe n c in g w it h L o r d Alla n .

T h e c o m m it t e e ’s c h a ir m a n , p u b -

lic it y-p r o n e To r y M P D a m ia n C o l-

lin s , g r u m b le d a b o u t R u s s ia n s

u s in g F a c e b o o k t o in flu e n c e w e s t -

e r n d e m o c r a t ic e le c t io n s . I t m a y

o r m a y n o t b e w o r t h n o t in g t h a t

M r C o llin s is a R e m a in e r. H e w a s

d is p le a s e d w h e n L o r d Alla n vo l-

u n t e e r e d F a c e b o o k ’s h e lp in w r it -

in g ‘r e g u la t o r y fr a m e w o r k s ’. ‘T h a t

s h o u ld b e u p t o p a r lia m e n t s t o

d e c id e ,’ s n a p p e d M r C o llin s .

An I r is h M P, E a m o n R ya n , w a s

w o r k in g o n a la p t o p w h ic h s u d -

d e n ly s t a r t e d m a k in g s t r a n g e

n o is e s . U n a b le t o s h u t it u p , h e

t o o k it o u t o f t h e r o o m . S e e ? I f

o n ly M a r k Z u c k e r b e r g h a d b e e n

t h e r e , h e w o u ld h a ve k n o w n w h ic h

b u t t on t o p ress.

Com m en t – Pa ge 16

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d

Missing: Yesterday’s 23-strong international panel – and Mr Zuckerberg’s empty chair

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Facebook engineer ‘warned in

2014 of Russia’s data harvesting’

Emma Graham-Harrison

Jim Waterson

A Facebook engineer warned the

company in 2014 that users appar-

ently based in Russia were scooping

vast amounts of data from the site on a

daily basis, politicians from nine coun-

tries have been told.

Facebook’s representative, Rich-

ard Allan, often looked uncomfortable

during hours of grilling by members

of the House of Commons, where he

once sat as a Liberal Democrat MP,

and parliamentarians from eight other

countries. An empty seat was left for

Facebook’s founder and chief exec-

utive, Mark Zuckerberg, underlining

the committee’s frustration about his

refusal to appear.

Allan was questioned on Face-

book’s failures to crack down on posts

inflaming hatred in Sri Lanka, falter-

ing efforts to protect user privacy and

data, the company’s problems regulat-

ing fake accounts and misinformation,

and the slow pace of efforts to improve

transparency of political advertising.

The Tory MP Damian Collins asked

about the mass harvesting of data in

2014. “An engineer at Facebook noti-

fied the company in October 2014 that

entities with Russian IP [internet pro-

tocol] addresses had been using a

Pinterest API [application program-

ming interface] key to pull over 3bn

data points a day [from Facebook],” he

said. “Was that reported to any exter-

nal body at the time?”

Facebook later confirmed the data

collection had been investigated. “The

engineers who had flagged these ini-

tial concerns subsequently looked into

this further and found no evidence of

specific Russian activity,” it said.

Facebook said it had investigated

the potentially suspicious activity and

insisted it was not a data breach. It said

they were legitimate data requests for

approximately 6m items a day, not the

3bn claimed by the engineer.

It appeared the cache of documents

emerged from a lawsuit launched by

the software developer Six4Three in

2015. It had invested $250,000 in a

controversial app that allowed users

to filter through friends’ photos to find

images of them in swimwear, and sued

Facebook after the company cut off

access to the data of users’ friends.

The documents were provided to

Six4Three’s lawyers by Facebook.

They are alleged to contain significant

revelations about decisions on data

and privacy controls that led to the

Cambridge Analytica scandal, includ-

ing confidential emails between senior

executives, and correspondence with

Zuckerberg. Collins told a news con-

ference that he considered them

important and he aimed to publish

a selection after redacting personal

details.

“Facebook is trying to pretend that

these are all spurious allegations or

carefully selected internal documents

designed to give a false impression.

I think that is a misrepresentation of

these documents,” he said.

One of the key concerns of the

committee was the lack of oversight

on Facebook. The Singaporean pol-

itician Edwin Tong asked about the

role of Facebook posts in stirring reli-

gious tensions in Sri Lanka, where its

inaction when asked to remove them

led the government to block the plat-

form. “I’m ashamed that these things

happen,” said Allan, appearing to agree

with calls for greater regulation, even

though Facebook has poured mil-

lions into lobbying to limit controls

worldwide. Among current battles, it

is appealing against a record £500,000

fine from the UK’s data watchdog.

Asked what Facebook needed to

do to prevent its platforms being used

to spread abuse, Allan said the com-

pany needed to make its own controls

stronger but also needed better con-

trols from lawmakers – “Frankly, you

and your colleagues standing over us.”

The Canadian politician Charlie

Angus accused the company of “cor-

porate fraud on a massive scale” for

doctoring video -viewing metrics

it presented to advertisers. He also

attacked Facebook’s dominance of

online life, through its eponymous

platform, the photo-sharing app

Instagram and the messaging service

WhatsApp.

“The problem is Facebook,” Angus

said, calling for it to be broken up.

“Unprecedented economic control

of every form of social discourse and

communication.”

▲

Mark Zuckerberg was absent as

parliamentarians asked questions

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Facebook’s Zuckerberg

criticised for failing to appear

at London hearing

ANDREW GRIFFIN

Facebook has been savaged by an “international grand committee” of politicians after boss Mark

Zuckerberg once again refused to answer questions.

The company was accused of undermining democratic institutions and failing to take responsibility for

recent data breaches, allegations of business malpractice, repeated electoral interference and the spread of

disinformation and hate speech on the platform.

But the hearing was marked by the fact that Mr Zuckerberg had not arrived, despite a request that came

from representatives of nine countries including the UK, Ireland, Canada and France.

Instead, they chose to leave a chair open for the Facebook founder and criticised him for refusing to turn

up.

Facebook is being investigated by lawmakers in Britain after consultancy firm Cambridge Analytica, which

worked on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, obtained the personal data of 87 million Facebook

users from a researcher, drawing attention to the use of data analytics in politics.

Concerns over the social media giant’s practices, the role of political adverts and possible interference in

the 2016 Brexit referendum and US elections are among the topics being investigated by regulators.

While Facebook says it complies with EU data protection laws, the special hearing in London criticised Mr

Zuckerberg for declining to appear to answer questions.

“We’ve never seen anything quite like Facebook, where, while we were playing on our phones and apps,

our democratic institutions ... seem to have been upended by frat-boy billionaires from California,”

Canadian MP Charlie Angus said.

“So Mr Zuckerberg’s decision not to appear here at Westminster to me speaks volumes.”

Richard Allan, the vice president of policy solutions at Facebook, who appeared on Mr Zuckerberg’s

behalf, admitted the company had made mistakes but said it had accepted the need to comply with data

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rules.

“I’m not going to disagree with you that we’ve damaged public trust through some of the actions we’ve

taken,” Mr Allan told the hearing.

Facebook has faced a barrage of criticism from users and politicians after it said last year that Russian

agents had used its platform to spread disinformation before and after the 2016 US presidential election, an

accusation that Moscow has denied.

Mr Allan repeatedly declined to give an example of a person or app banned from Facebook for the misuse

of data, aside from the GSR app which gathered data in the Cambridge Analytica scandal.

Legal documents reviewed by Reuters showed how the investigation by British lawmakers had led them to

seize documents relating to Facebook from app developer Six4Three, which is in a legal dispute with

Facebook.

Damian Collins, chair of the culture committee, which convened the hearing, said he would not release

those documents on Tuesday because he was not in a position to do so, although he had previously said

that the committee had the legal power to.

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Invisible man: Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg never turned up (AFP)

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Politicians blast Zuckerberg after

Facebook boss’s hearing no-show

EMILY NICOLLE

@emilyjnicolle

POLITICIANS criticised Facebook

founder Mark Zuckerberg for not

appearing at a hearing yesterday, and

accused the social media platform of

undermining international

parliaments and regulators.

A grand committee consisting of

representatives from countries

including the UK, Canada, France

and Belgium met in Westminster

yesterday, convened by the

Department for Culture, Media and

Sport Select Committee, to question

Facebook policy head, Liberal

Democrat peer Lord Richard Allan.

Topics included Facebook’s role in

possible interference in the Brexit

referendum and 2016 US

presidential elections, its privacy

policies and future regulation of the

social media site.

Zuckerberg’s absence from the

hearing, having turned down several

invitations to appear before the

international committee, was

marked by an empty chair.

“We’ve never seen anything quite

like Facebook, where, while we were

playing on our phones and apps, our

democratic institutions... seem to

have been upended by frat-boy

billionaires from California,” said.

Charlie Angus, a Canadian minister.

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Facebook boss quizzed

on Russia ‘cyber attack’

FACEBOOK bosses knew of a

possible Russian cyber attack

years before details emerged,

politicians were told yesterday.

The allegation came at a Lon-

don-based inquiry into fake news

in which the social media giant

came under fire from politicians

around the world.

Facebook founder Mark Zucker-

berg snubbed the hearing – send-

ing a deputy to be grilled instead.

Lord Allan, vice-president of

policy, was quizzed by Tory MP

Damian Collins, chairman of the

Commons Digital, Culture, Media

and Sport Committee.

Mr Collins claimed a Facebook

engineer had warned in October

2014 that Russians were harvest-

ing vast amounts of data daily.

It came from a cache of internal

emails seized on Sunday by MPs

which they have threatened to

publish in the next few days.

But Lord Allan said the emails

were “potentially misleading” and

had come from a “hostile litigant”.

The company later claimed its

engineers had found “no evidence

of specific Russian activity”.

Lord Allan, a Lib Dem peer,

insisted Facebook was making

progress in tackling fake news,

claiming 50 per cent of “low-

quality” posts had been removed.

But he admitted it needed

greater oversight amid fears of

political interference in elections.

Irish

politician

Hildegarde

Naughton asked: “In light of the

fake news and data breaches your

company has been involved in over

the last two years, do you accept

Facebook needs to be regulated?”

“So...yes,” Lord Allan replied.

“We recognise through our own

actions and external events that

we are not in a good place in terms

of trust.” He also conceded it was

“not great” that Mr Zuckerberg

had refused to appear.

Canada’s Charlie Angus said:

“While we were playing on our

phones and apps, our democratic

institutions seem to have been

upended by frat boy billionaires

from California. You have lost the

trust of the international commu-

nity to self-police.”

Singapore’s

Edwin

Tong

highlighted a post published in

Sri Lanka during political unrest

in the country, which proclaimed

“Kill all Muslims, don’t even let an

infant of the dogs escape”.

Mr Tong pointed out that a

Facebook moderator said it did

not violate standards, a decision

Lord Allan downplayed as “a mis-

take” before accepting its gravity.

The Daily Express has compiled

a dossier of hate-filled material

found on the social media site.

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Empty chair

shaming for

Facebook’s

Zuckerberg

by DANIEL BINNS

FACEBOOK boss Mark Zuckerberg was

‘empty chaired’ and condemned for fail-

ing to show up to an inquiry in London.

MPs were joined by politicians from

around the world yesterday for a hearing

into alleged privacy breaches and the

spread of hate speech and fake news on

the social network.

Facebook’s vice-president of policy

solutions, Lib Dem peer Lord Richard

Allan, was sent in Mr Zuckerberg’s place.

He admitted it was ‘not great’ that the

website’s founder was absent.

Canadian politician Bob Zimmer told

Lord Allan: ‘In this room we represent

over 400million people, and to not have

your CEO sit in that chair there is

an offence to all of us in this room

and, really, our citizens as well.’

Mr

Zuckerberg

(pictured)

appeared before the US Congress

in April but has repeatedly

refused to appear in London.

The inquiry yesterday heard

claims of Facebook’s failure

to tackle misinformation

and data harvesting of

its 2billion users. One

post went viral in Sri

Lanka, urging people to ‘kill all Muslims

[and] don’t even let an infant of the dogs

escape’. Despite complaints, a Facebook

moderator said the post ‘did not violate

the network’s standards’ – even though

it appeared at a time of sectarian clashes

that left several people dead.

Tory MP Damian Collins, who chairs

the digital, culture, media and sport com-

mittee, said Facebook knew it was vul-

nerable to a Russian cyber attack as far

back as 2014. This was revealed in emails

seized from the boss of a US software

firm who was ordered to hand them over

by parliament’s serjeant-at-arms dur-

ing a business trip to London.

Facebook said comments were

taken out of context and ‘no evi-

dence of specific Russian activity’

had been found at that time.

Lord Allan admitted ‘we’ve dam-

aged public trust with some of the

actions we’ve taken’. His fellow Lib

Dem, former deputy prime min-

ister Nick Clegg, joined Face-

book as head of global affairs

last month.

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Absent Facebook riend:

Mark

Zuckerberg’s empty chair at the

global inquiry in London yesterday

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Facebook

had Russia

suspicions as

early as 2014

Russians were accessing

‘3bn data points a day’ but

social network said it did

not constitute interference

By

James Cook

and

Laurence Dodds

FACEBOOK investigated suspicions of

Russian data harvesting as early as

2014, at least two years before the

social network admitted to widespread

interference from Moscow, according

to private emails seized by Parliament.

Damian Collins, chairman of the

Commons digital, culture, media and

sport committee, revealed that Face-

book staff had found computers in Rus-

sia accessing “3bn data points a day”

from the social network in 2014.

Facebook said it had investigated the

matter and found that it did not consti-

tute genuine interference from Russia.

It said the internet traffic being sent to

Russia was legitimate, and related to

Pinterest, a popular picture sharing

app. However, the disclosure raises

more questions about how Facebook

dealt with Russian attempts to inter-

fere with the service. The Kremlin has

been accused of meddling with demo-

cratic votes in the US, UK and else-

where in Europe, and Facebook has

previously said it did not discover any

such attempts until after the 2016 pres-

idential election.

At a hearing of an “international

grand committee on disinformation

and fake news”, a coalition of different

parliamentary committees investigat-

ing Facebook, Mr Collins asked the

social network’s policy chief Richard

Allan why the investigation was not

previously disclosed.

“If Russian IP addresses were pull-

ing down a huge amount of data from

the platform, was that reported or was

that just kept, as so often seems to be

the case, within the family and not

talked about?” he asked. A Facebook

spokesman later said: “The engineers

who had flagged these initial concerns

subsequently looked into this further

and found no evidence of specific Rus-

sian activity.”

The use of Russian addresses to

access Facebook data does not prove

that people in Russia were behind an

attempt to scrape data from Facebook,

since software can be used to mask the

origin of internet traffic.

Mr Allan was questioned yesterday

after Facebook’s chief executive Mark

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Zuckerberg declined multiple de-

mands to appear in front of the com-

mittee. Last night, further pressure

was piled on Facebook after a black

employee accused the company of

maintaining a climate of racial discrim-

ination in which black and Latino

workers are feared, marginalised and

harassed by security guards.

In a scathing memo later posted on

his personal Facebook page, Mark

Luckie, a departing manager at the

social network’s headquarters in Menlo

Park, California, said the social net-

work “has a black people problem”.

“Racial discrimination at Facebook

is real,” wrote Mr Luckie. “Too many

black employees can recount stories of

being aggressively accosted by campus

security beyond what was necessary.”

A Facebook spokesman said it

“wants to fully support all employees”

who report discrimination or trou-

bling  “micro-behaviours” and is “do-

ing  all we can to be a truly inclusive

company”.

Richard Allan,

Facebook’s policy

chief, gave evidence

to MPs on the digital,

culture, media and

sport committee

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Lone protest: Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg declined multiple demands to appear in front of the committee

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Facebook was warned of Russian

data harvesting in 2014, says MP

Mark Bridge

Technology Correspondent

Facebook was told four years ago that

Russians were exploiting security fail-

ings to harvest “billions” of items of us-

er data a day, an MP claimed yesterday.

Damian Collins said that he had seen

an internal email that showed a Face-

book engineer notifying the company

in October 2014. Facebook has indicat-

ed that it only became aware of Russian

interference on its platform after the

US presidential election in late 2016.

The email, the first disclosure from a

large cache of seized Facebook papers

that MPs plan to release , was cited at an

unprecedented “Grand Committee” of

British and international lawmakers

who questioned Lord Allan of Hallam,

Facebook’s European policy director.

Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the US

tech giant in 2004, refused to attend.

Mr Collins, head of the special com-

mittee, said that he was not ready to

publish the full cache of documents

seized by the digital, culture, media and

sport committee, which he also chairs.

However, he described the email as

of “considerable public interest”. It alle-

gedly shows that the engineer told Fa-

cebook that “entities” with Russian IP

addresses had been pulling three billion

data points a day. The data, including

details of users’ Facebook friends, ap-

peared to have been obtained by people

who created apps for the Pinterest web-

site, which gave them de-

velopers’ access to

users’ Facebook

data. Mr Col-

lins’ remarks

suggested that

Russians

ex-

ploited a similar

loophole to the one that

enabled the British data

company Cambridge An-

alytica to obtain users’ data

without their knowledge.

In Westminster, an empty

chair behind a nameplate for Mr Zuck-

erberg, 34, highlighted his absence. The

billionaire has turned down repeated

requests to appear before parliament to

answer questions on fake news and his

company’s failure to protect users’ data.

Those attending from nine countries,

including Canada, France and Ireland,

signed a joint declaration that social

media companies should be regulated.

The alleged data harvesting came at

the same time as Russia set up its Inter-

net Research Agency. Facebook posts

from the “troll factory”, supportive of

Donald Trump, were seen by 126 mil-

lion Americans. Alan Woodward, of

Surrey University, said that the data

made available to app developers could

have been used to successfully “micro-

target” disinformation.

Mr Collins asked Lord

Allan: “If Russian IP

addresses were pulling

down a huge amount

of data from the plat-

form was that report-

ed or was that just kept

within the family and

not talked about?”

The peer said that

the documents were

only a partial set of

information

ob-

tained by a “hostile

litigant”. Parlia-

ment seized them

from an executive

of Six4Three, a

US software com-

pany using them

in a case against

Facebook in Califor-

nia, where their publi-

cation is prohibited.

Lord Allan said that

he would return to the

committee with an-

swers to the questions

about Facebook’s re-

sponse. A Facebook

spokesman later

said: “The engineers who had flagged

these initial concerns subsequently

looked into this further and found no

evidence of specific Russian activity.”

He said that the requests had been nor-

mal traffic to Pinterest and included

millions, not billions, of data points.

Nate Erskine-Smith, a Canadian MP,

asked Lord Allan whether Facebook

told app developers that their access to

users’ friends’ data would be cut off un-

less they bought advertisements from

Facebook. Lord Allan denied the claim.

Referring to the US Racketeer Influ-

enced and Corrupt Organisations

(Rico) act, used to target the mafia, Paul

Farrelly, MP, said to Lord Allan: “I’ve

read the summary and the thought I

have is Rico. Racketeering. Has Face-

book ever taken advice on possible Rico

offences?” Lord Allan said that he was

unaware of any such preparation.

Clive Efford, a fellow British MP,

asked the peer: “How do you think it

looks that Mark Zuckerberg didn’t turn

up to answer questions to parliament

today?” Lord Allan replied: “Not great.”

6

Google could face a fine of £3.8 bil-

lion for breaches of GDPR data rules

after the European Consumer Organi-

sation alleged that location data could

reveal sexual orientation and political

activity. Google denies wrongdoing.



 

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Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee

Facebook was warned of Russian

data harvesting in 2014, says MP

Mark Bridge

Technology Correspondent

Facebook was told four years ago that

Russians were exploiting security fail-

ings to harvest “billions” of items of us-

er data a day, an MP claimed yesterday.

Damian Collins said that he had seen

an internal email that showed a Face-

book engineer notifying the company

in October 2014. Facebook has indicat-

ed that it only became aware of Russian

interference on its platform after the

US presidential election in late 2016.

The email, the first disclosure from a

large cache of seized Facebook papers

that MPs plan to release , was cited at an

unprecedented “Grand Committee” of

British and international lawmakers

who questioned Lord Allan of Hallam,

Facebook’s European policy director.

Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the US

tech giant in 2004, refused to attend.

Mr Collins, head of the special com-

mittee, said that he was not ready to

publish the full cache of documents

seized by the digital, culture, media and

sport committee, which he also chairs.

However, he described the email as

of “considerable public interest”. It alle-

gedly shows that the engineer told Fa-

cebook that “entities” with Russian IP

addresses had been pulling three billion

data points a day. The data, including

details of users’ Facebook friends, ap-

peared to have been obtained by people

who created apps for the Pinterest web-

site, which gave them de-

velopers’ access to

users’ Facebook

data. Mr Col-

lins’ remarks

suggested that

Russians

ex-

ploited a similar

loophole to the one that

enabled the British data

company Cambridge An-

alytica to obtain users’ data

without their knowledge.

In Westminster, an empty

chair behind a nameplate for Mr Zuck-

erberg, 34, highlighted his absence. The

billionaire has turned down repeated

requests to appear before parliament to

answer questions on fake news and his

company’s failure to protect users’ data.

Those attending from nine countries,

including Canada, France and Ireland,

signed a joint declaration that social

media companies should be regulated.

The alleged data harvesting came at

the same time as Russia set up its Inter-

net Research Agency. Facebook posts

from the “troll factory”, supportive of

Donald Trump, were seen by 126 mil-

lion Americans. Alan Woodward, of

Surrey University, said that the data

made available to app developers could

have been used to successfully “micro-

target” disinformation.

Mr Collins asked Lord

Allan: “If Russian IP

addresses were pulling

down a huge amount

of data from the plat-

form was that report-

ed or was that just kept

within the family and

not talked about?”

The peer said that

the documents were

only a partial set of

information

ob-

tained by a “hostile

litigant”. Parlia-

ment seized them

from an executive

of Six4Three, a

US software com-

pany using them

in a case against

Facebook in Califor-

nia, where their publi-

cation is prohibited.

Lord Allan said that

he would return to the

committee with an-

swers to the questions

about Facebook’s re-

sponse. A Facebook

spokesman later

said: “The engineers who had flagged

these initial concerns subsequently

looked into this further and found no

evidence of specific Russian activity.”

He said that the requests had been nor-

mal traffic to Pinterest and included

millions, not billions, of data points.

Nate Erskine-Smith, a Canadian MP,

asked Lord Allan whether Facebook

told app developers that their access to

users’ friends’ data would be cut off un-

less they bought advertisements from

Facebook. Lord Allan denied the claim.

Referring to the US Racketeer Influ-

enced and Corrupt Organisations

(Rico) act, used to target the mafia, Paul

Farrelly, MP, said to Lord Allan: “I’ve

read the summary and the thought I

have is Rico. Racketeering. Has Face-

book ever taken advice on possible Rico

offences?” Lord Allan said that he was

unaware of any such preparation.

Clive Efford, a fellow British MP,

asked the peer: “How do you think it

looks that Mark Zuckerberg didn’t turn

up to answer questions to parliament

today?” Lord Allan replied: “Not great.”

6

Google could face a fine of £3.8 bil-

lion for breaches of GDPR data rules

after the European Consumer Organi-

sation alleged that location data could

reveal sexual orientation and political

activity. Google denies wrongdoing.



 

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Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Committee

Facebook was warned of Russian

data harvesting in 2014, says MP

Mark Bridge

Technology Correspondent

Facebook was told four years ago that

Russians were exploiting security fail-

ings to harvest “billions” of items of us-

er data a day, an MP claimed yesterday.

Damian Collins said that he had seen

an internal email that showed a Face-

book engineer notifying the company

in October 2014. Facebook has indicat-

ed that it only became aware of Russian

interference on its platform after the

US presidential election in late 2016.

The email, the first disclosure from a

large cache of seized Facebook papers

that MPs plan to release , was cited at an

unprecedented “Grand Committee” of

British and international lawmakers

who questioned Lord Allan of Hallam,

Facebook’s European policy director.

Mark Zuckerberg, who founded the US

tech giant in 2004, refused to attend.

Mr Collins, head of the special com-

mittee, said that he was not ready to

publish the full cache of documents

seized by the digital, culture, media and

sport committee, which he also chairs.

However, he described the email as

of “considerable public interest”. It alle-

gedly shows that the engineer told Fa-

cebook that “entities” with Russian IP

addresses had been pulling three billion

data points a day. The data, including

details of users’ Facebook friends, ap-

peared to have been obtained by people

who created apps for the Pinterest web-

site, which gave them de-

velopers’ access to

users’ Facebook

data. Mr Col-

lins’ remarks

suggested that

Russians

ex-

ploited a similar

loophole to the one that

enabled the British data

company Cambridge An-

alytica to obtain users’ data

without their knowledge.

In Westminster, an empty

chair behind a nameplate for Mr Zuck-

erberg, 34, highlighted his absence. The

billionaire has turned down repeated

requests to appear before parliament to

answer questions on fake news and his

company’s failure to protect users’ data.

Those attending from nine countries,

including Canada, France and Ireland,

signed a joint declaration that social

media companies should be regulated.

The alleged data harvesting came at

the same time as Russia set up its Inter-

net Research Agency. Facebook posts

from the “troll factory”, supportive of

Donald Trump, were seen by 126 mil-

lion Americans. Alan Woodward, of

Surrey University, said that the data

made available to app developers could

have been used to successfully “micro-

target” disinformation.

Mr Collins asked Lord

Allan: “If Russian IP

addresses were pulling

down a huge amount

of data from the plat-

form was that report-

ed or was that just kept

within the family and

not talked about?”

The peer said that

the documents were

only a partial set of

information

ob-

tained by a “hostile

litigant”. Parlia-

ment seized them

from an executive

of Six4Three, a

US software com-

pany using them

in a case against

Facebook in Califor-

nia, where their publi-

cation is prohibited.

Lord Allan said that

he would return to the

committee with an-

swers to the questions

about Facebook’s re-

sponse. A Facebook

spokesman later

said: “The engineers who had flagged

these initial concerns subsequently

looked into this further and found no

evidence of specific Russian activity.”

He said that the requests had been nor-

mal traffic to Pinterest and included

millions, not billions, of data points.

Nate Erskine-Smith, a Canadian MP,

asked Lord Allan whether Facebook

told app developers that their access to

users’ friends’ data would be cut off un-

less they bought advertisements from

Facebook. Lord Allan denied the claim.

Referring to the US Racketeer Influ-

enced and Corrupt Organisations

(Rico) act, used to target the mafia, Paul

Farrelly, MP, said to Lord Allan: “I’ve

read the summary and the thought I

have is Rico. Racketeering. Has Face-

book ever taken advice on possible Rico

offences?” Lord Allan said that he was

unaware of any such preparation.

Clive Efford, a fellow British MP,

asked the peer: “How do you think it

looks that Mark Zuckerberg didn’t turn

up to answer questions to parliament

today?” Lord Allan replied: “Not great.”

6

Google could face a fine of £3.8 bil-

lion for breaches of GDPR data rules

after the European Consumer Organi-

sation alleged that location data could

reveal sexual orientation and political

activity. Google denies wrongdoing.



 

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