Did Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Intend To Deceive?
NPRDid Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg Intend To Deceive? "We cut off this investigation too early, Facebook was willing to pay more money in order to hide Mark Zuckerberg's testimony from this investigation," he says. "Facebook fully cooperated with the FTC's investigation and provided tens of thousands of documents, files and emails—including from Mark Zuckerberg," Colin Stretch, Facebook's general counsel, said in a statement Sunday after this story aired. "We didn't even want to look at something that seemed fundamentally important, and instead traded it away for a higher fine, and none of that money will actually go to Facebook's users," Chopra says. Zuckerberg lauded the settlement, saying in a post that his company has a "privacy-focused vision" and that, while Facebook already works hard to protect people's privacy, "now we're going to set a completely new standard for our industry."