"Good meeting with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook in the Oval Office today , " Donald Trump simply tweeted , accompanying his message with a photo showing the two men shaking hands. He did not provide further details on the content of their discussions.
In the US Congress, on the same day, Mark Zuckerberg spoke in a closed-door exchange with Republican Senator Josh Hawley, one of Facebook's most vocal critics. "We had a frank conversation , " the senator tweeted .
"I challenged him to do two things to show that Facebook is serious about fairness, data protection and competition :
“ 1) Sell WhatsApp and Instagram;
2) Submit to an independent, external audit on the issue of censorship. ”
He answered no to both."
Senator Hawley had already pursued the network with his thunderbolts when he was attorney general of Missouri.
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A law to protect personal data
On Wednesday night, Zuckerberg met privately with other overseas chinese in canada data elected officials at a lively dinner, Democratic Senator Mark Warner said. “We have a long way to go, but I appreciate his candor and taking our concerns seriously. I hope we can work together to address these challenges ,” he tweeted.
While he wants tighter regulation, Warner said he is not yet in favor of breaking up Facebook. "I'm not joining some of my friends who want to go straight to breaking up [the company] , " he said on Fox Business Network.
The young tech mogul and elected officials discussed "many topics ," according to Warner, including data privacy, transparency, racist content, ways to better authenticate identities and cryptocurrencies. Congress is working on legislation to better protect privacy from Internet giants, for whom personal data is often the main source of income.
At the end of July, the American federal authorities imposed on Facebook, which they accuse of having "deceived" its users, an independent control of the way in which it processes personal data, in addition to a record fine of five billion dollars.
