2018/05/12

Facebook's increasing PR job in Brussels

Facebook is a regular subject of controversies connected to the use of data shared by its users - in 2013, for example, after the revelations of Edward Snowden, or more recently with the Cambridge Analytica affair. As a consequence, the company has been trying its best to polish its image and reassure both the public and institutions. To this end, it has formed a network to amplify its influence in Washington as well as in Brussels.

“You picked this format for a reason,” one parliamentarian hissed at Zuckerberg as the proceedings ended.

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