Mark Zuckerberg admitted to storing every click from users

Yesterday, Facebook CEO – Mark Zuckerberg participated in the first hearing before the US Senate that lasted nearly 5 hours.

Mark answered questions from 44 US senators after the user data leak scandal.

He continued to apologize for a series of recent Facebook problems, from personal data security to foreign influence on the US Presidential election.

During the hearing, senators frankly questioned Facebook’s boss about the security of user data.

But US senators haven’t stopped there.

With this honest answer, Senator Blumenthal said that Zuckerberg contradicted the `terms of service` that he and Facebook had given.

Facebook CEO – Mark Zuckerberg in the hearing.

Senator Fischer asked: `How much data do you store? Do you save everything we click`?

Meanwhile, Senator Richard J. Durbin asked Zuckerberg if he was comfortable sharing the name of the hotel he spent the night in and if he was willing to share the names of people he messaged during the week.

`No. I probably wouldn’t choose to do something so public here,` Mr. Zuckerberg admitted.

Immediately, Mr. Durbin said this was what they were interested in.

According to Zuckerberg’s explanation, Facebook divides content into two types: one is voluntarily posted and shared by users and the other is completely controlled by Facebook.

Zuckerberg also expressed agreement when some senators raised the issue of considering an ad-free version of Facebook that users would have to pay to use.

However, a Facebook representative affirmed `will consider` and told congressman Orrin Hatch that there will always be a free version of Facebook.

The first hearing before the US Congress is said to be Mark Zuckerberg’s most difficult challenge ever.

During the hearing, Mark Zuckerberg denied that Facebook has a monopoly and asserted that they are a technology company, not a media company.

Zuckerberg was considered quite calm during the hearing.

And investors welcomed his answers.

“Organizing a joint hearing across councils like this was extraordinary.

Facebook shares yesterday increased by 4.5% to more than 165 USD – the highest in nearly 3 weeks.

The hearing was held nearly a month after the Facebook user information leak scandal broke out.

The scandal caused Facebook shares to plummet, evaporating tens of billions of dollars in capitalization and causing the social network to be under increased scrutiny by authorities on both sides of the Atlantic.