Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday said his organisation is committed to ensure integrity of elections across the world, including India, as he testified before the US Congress amid a firestorm over the alleged hijacking of data of millions of Facebook users by British firm Cambridge Analytica.
He said data privacy and foreign interference in elections were topics that they have discussed at the Facebook board meeting.
"These are some of the biggest issues that the company has faced, and we feel a huge responsibility to get these right," Zuckerberg told the US the lawmakers during the Congressional hearing, adding that "this is one of my top priorities in 2018".
He said Facebook was taking steps to ensure integrity of elections in countries like the United States, India, Brazil, and Pakistan.
"2018 is is an incredibly important year for elections. Not just in the US mid-terms, but, around the world, there are important elections—in India, Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan and Hungary—and we want to make sure we do everything we can to protect the integrity of these elections," the Facebook founder and CEO said.
Zuckerberg began his two-day hearing as his organisation faces charges of failing to prevent Cambridge Analytica, the data-mining firm affiliated with Donald Trump's presidential campaign, from gathering personal information from over 80 million users to try to influence election.