Mark Zuckerberg today said that he will not resign over revelations that Facebook knew about Russian election interference despite denying it and used lobby firms to smear critics.
It was revealed last week that Facebook deliberately misled the public about what it knew about the Kremlin's 2016 election tampering.
The tech giant also employed a 'research firm' to smear protesters by linking them to George Soros and a lobby firm to brand critics anti-Semites.
When asked today if would consider stepping down as chairman Zuckerberg told CNN Business 'That's not the plan.'
He was critical of the use of lobby and research firms to attack opponents.
'I wasn't particularly happy about that piece of it. And that's certainly a lot of what made me want to look into this more deeply,' he said.
'The intention was never to attack an individual but there are lobbying groups out there who are out to attack, it’s fine to push back on them.'
He criticized the decision to link critics to George Soros.
'George Soros has been the target of a lot of really horrendous attacks and I think that that is terrible and I certainly wouldn’t want anyone who is associated with our company to be a part of that,' he said.
'A lot of the critique that folks have had about our company, I read and I think a lot of it is fair and we need to do better and learn from but at the same time I don’t think all of it is fair.'
Embattled Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he has no plans to resign, sounding defiant after a rough year for the social platform
He also defended Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who has drawn criticism over her handling of the social media giant's recent crises
He also defended Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg, who has drawn criticism over her aggressive denial and distract strategy.
Sandberg, formerly of the Clinton administration and Google, has come out of the New York Times' report as an unscrupulous marketing tactician.
In 2016, Zuckerberg described the notion of Russian interference as 'crazy.'
As Zuckerberg toured the world with a meek apology spiel, titled 'We Get It' in internal memos, Sandberg carried out a belligerent damage limitation effort.
Sandberg used her contacts in Washington to fight for her and wooed others who had been convinced it was a politically left-wing outfit.
Facebook has stumbled from one mess to another this year as it grappled with continuing fallout from Russia's use of the platform to interfere in the 2016 US presidential election.
In late September they disclosed a massive data breach which affected 50 million users - including those of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.
That bombshell came after the Cambridge Analytica scandal in which user data was harnessed in a bid to help Donald Trump during his Presidential election.
'Sheryl is a really important part of this company and is leading a lot of the efforts for a lot of the biggest issues we have,' said Zuckerberg.
'She's been an important partner to me for 10 years. I'm really proud of the work we've done together and I hope that we work together for decades more to come.'
Zuckerberg also defended his company against the broader wave of flak it has taken this year.
Sandberg, formerly of the Clinton administration and Google, was savaged in the Times article which accused her of cinical lobbying of politicians from both sides of the House
Stocks in big tech plummeted yesterday, with a bad week for Facebook made worse, as nervousness spread through the markets
'A lot of the criticism around the biggest issues has been fair, but I do think that if we are going to be real, there is this bigger picture as well, which is that we have a different world view than some of the folks who are covering us,' he said.
'There are big issues, and I'm not trying to say that there aren't... But I do think that sometimes, you can get the flavor from some of the coverage that that's all there is, and I don't think that that's right either.'
He said Facebook's use around politics remained important because it gave more people a voice.
The Facebook boss said the company was keen to work with 'governments, other companies and non-profits' to address issues linked with the site - such as misinformation and election interference - because it would not be able to fix these problems by itself.
He said that with support from 'governments, partnerships and with a ton of investment' the site could stay ahead of the 'sophisticated threats' posed by nation states and other organisations looking to interfere in elections.
Tech companies bottomed out on the stock market yesterday and the Dow is still struggling to recover as nervousness spreads throughout the market.
The price of Facebook's stock has taken a battering this year as a result of a series of crushing failings.
FACEBOOK'S PRIVACY DISASTERS
Facebook in late September disclosed that it had been hit by its worst ever data breach, affecting 50 million users - including those of Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg and COO Sheryl Sandberg.
Attackers exploited the site's 'View As' feature, which lets people see what their profiles look like to other users.
The unknown attackers took advantage of a feature in the code called 'Access Tokens,' to take over people's accounts, potentially giving hackers access to private messages, photos and posts - although Facebook said there was no evidence that had been done.
The hackers also tried to harvest people's private information, including name, sex and hometown, from Facebook's systems.
Facebook said it doesn't yet know if information from the affected accounts has been misused or accessed, and is working with the FBI to conduct further investigations.
However, Mark Zuckerberg assured users that passwords and credit card information was not accessed.
Facebook says it has found no evidence 'so far' that hackers broke into third-party apps after a data breach exposed 50 million users (stock image)
As a result of the breach, the firm logged roughly 90 million people out of their accounts earlier today as a security measure.
Facebook made headlines earlier this year after the data of 87 million users was improperly accessed by Cambridge Analytica, a political consultancy.
The disclosure has prompted government inquiries into the company's privacy practices across the world, and fueled a '#deleteFacebook' movement among consumers.
Communications firm Cambridge Analytica had offices in London, New York, Washington, as well as Brazil and Malaysia.
The company boasts it can 'find your voters and move them to action' through data-driven campaigns and a team that includes data scientists and behavioural psychologists.
'Within the United States alone, we have played a pivotal role in winning presidential races as well as congressional and state elections,' with data on more than 230 million American voters, Cambridge Analytica claims on its website.
The company profited from a feature that meant apps could ask for permission to access your own data as well as the data of all your Facebook friends.
The data firm suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix (pictured), after recordings emerged of him making a series of controversial claims, including boasts that Cambridge Analytica had a pivotal role in the election of Donald Trump
This meant the company was able to mine the information of 87 million Facebook users even though just 270,000 people gave them permission to do so.
This was designed to help them create software that can predict and influence voters' choices at the ballot box.
The data firm suspended its chief executive, Alexander Nix, after recordings emerged of him making a series of controversial claims, including boasts that Cambridge Analytica had a pivotal role in the election of Donald Trump.
This information is said to have been used to help the Brexit campaign in the UK.
It has also suffered several previous issues.
2013, Facebook disclosed a software flaw that exposed 6 million users' phone numbers and email addresses to unauthorized viewers for a year, while a technical glitch in 2008 revealed confidential birth-dates on 80 million Facebook users' profiles.
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