whistleblower claims that a personal data of fifty million uses was misused by persons in cambridge and aletta and the twenty sixteen u.s. presidential election now facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg is facing some serious questions facebook's mark zuckerberg enjoys the limelight at least when the news is good but as far as the latest data scandal is concerned he's keeping a low profile. more than two years ago his company discovered that cambridge analytic was using data taken from fifty million facebook users yet the company failed to inform those affected cambridge analytical it was simply told to delete the data which according to media reports never happened instead facebook has opted to delete the accounts of those who brought the scandal to light. people like chris wiley former research director of cambridge analytics he described the investigative team at ukase channel for how the company worked a magic when i go and ask you i say hey if i give you a dollar two dollars could you fill out the survey for me just do it on this app and you say fine right i don't just capture what your respons

media expose the actions of cambridge and aletta the firm accused of improperly access and use information to manipulate u.s. voices and a post on facebook sokoban admitted that his. company made a mistake since data protection is promising an investigation into apps on the platform after a quote is allowed cambridge and other to access to information on millions of profiles that's despite only three hundred thousand users responding to the quiz well that quiz gave cambridge and that of her access to respondents friends as well and because of the facebook maintains that there was no data breach as permission was given by the original users zuckerberg says terms of service have since changed my carrier has more from washington d.c. . head a hearing on election security by the senate intelligence committee discussion about how to protect the electoral process from outside agencies in the light of social media interference and twenty sixteen the elephant not in the room though is facebook founder mark zuckerberg he and facebook chief operating officer sheryl sandberg were also absent from an

for the last several days facebook will be front and center again today we will be joined by ken alettaw yorker writer and article. he will talk about how he sees the evolution of facebook. he thinks it's a problem of engineers running the company and being excited about what they can do. we'll dig into his theories. and the big issue that the street has been concerned about is what this will mean for potential regulation this morning we will be joined by adam schiff, the ranking member from the intelligence committee in the house he can tell us what he thinks is going on, what he would like to hear from facebook and what may be coming down the pike for not just facebook but other silicon valley companies and then what to expect from the administration alex azar will be our "squawk" newsmaker this morning, talking about the budgeting, and health and human services issues. all this is coming up plus you have the fed meeting we have nathan sheets who will be talking to us about what you can expect to hear from the first press conference from our new fed chairman all of that in a few minut