Mark Zuckerberg about Hungary and the Hungarian election at his Congress Hearing
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Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, mentioned Hungary as well at his Congress Hearing. According to him, there were several fake profiles deleted before the Hungarian election, as index.hu and napi.hu reported.
The hearing
According to local Hungarian time, Mark Zuckerberg’s Congress Hearing took place on Tuesday evening. The reason for Mark Zuckerberg’s hearing was that unauthorised personnel could have access to millions of Facebook profiles even before the 2016 American election. Therefore, the American Senate questioned the CEO.
Fake profiles and elections
Zuckerberg admitted him being responsible for the misuse of data. However, he highlighted that
his team has been working on artificial intelligence that can detect fake profiles. There were thousands of Facebook accounts deleted before the Mexican, Brasilian, Pakistani, and Hungarian elections.
He listed the elections coming this year and stated that the profiles of those countries’ will be observed so that no misuse can happen. Mistakenly, he also listed Hungary. It seems like his information was not up-to-date since the Hungarian election has ended on Sunday, the 8th of April.