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Ever since the Cambridge Analytica scandal in 2018, in which the data of some 87 million Facebook users was improperly accessed, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has fielded questions about what he knew and when.

The filing prompted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democrat from New York,

had said Cambridge Analytica previously claimed it could use data to glean voters' inclinations. Zuckerberg appeared to address those types of news reports in his testimony to SEC regulators, saying it piqued his interest about how the company might have been using Facebook at the time. In appearances before Congress in 2018, Zuckerberg had offered answers to lawmakers questioning when he knew of the political data group, whichof then Republican candidate President Donald Trump.

"We got in touch with them, and we asked them to — we demanded that they delete any of the data that they had, and their chief data officer told us that they had," Zuckerberg testified at the April 2018 hearing before the House Energy and Commerce committee.

 

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