phone lines on c-span 3 to get your thoughts. your reaction in general, are you deleting facebook as a result of recent news out of the company? republicans, democrats and all others, we'll look at tweets and some facebook postings this afternoon and will get to your calls and there will be other senators coming owe that microphone position. we may go back out there outside of this hearing room. let's get a call from lansing, illinois. christine, good evening. republican line. >> hi. >> as a registered voter and facebook user i'm concerned that 89 million people zuckerberg claimed today we own our data how is it that he was able to sell it if he didn't own it to sell it? those 89 million people are owed restitution and the profit by which he sold ownership of their data. >>> the chair in opening statement said the contours of the situation of cambridge analystica are still coming to light and that will be the subject of a separate hearing, 89 million users impacted by that in michigan we'll hear from elizabeth on the other line. >> i want to comment on it wasn't hit on about the data c

eastern on c-span. let's get to calls first philadelphia. francis on others line, hello there. >> caller: hey, how is it going? >> fine, thank you. >> caller: well, i've called in because i despise zuckerberg and i'm glad to have seen him get grilled by our government. he is an absolute scumbag. and i was thrilled when i saw congressman duncan hand zuckerberg a copy of the constitution. now, congressman duncan should make sure that zuckerberg reads that and should even test him on it later. now, zuckerberg, of course, is brain dead, so i'm not sure he's going to pass that test. and he probably won't. >> congressman duncan, one of the several members who also praised mark zuckerberg in their use of facebook, members use of facebook. mark, congressman duncan saying it is an invaluable part of what we do. let's hear from andy in san diego, california, on democrats line. andy, hang on just a moment. we'll hear from greg walden chairman of the committee, take you back live and get back to your call. >> facebook was the focus of today's hearing, but ts itch usz we dug into apply to many other

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comments. continue to welcome them on our facebook page. facebook.com scl facebook.com/c-span. i want to remind you we'll reshow tt hearing coming up next, and tonight 9:00 p.m., as much as we can, with today's founder and ceo mark zuckerberg. >>> okay. to i'd ask our guests to please take their seats so we can get t started. the committee on energyn and commerce will now come to order.st before my opening statement, r o just as a reminder to our sides, economy members on both sides, t it's another busy day at energy and commerce, in addition, as hs you will recall to this morning's facebook hearing, toy later today our health subcommittee will hold its third in the series of legislative hearings on solutions to combat the opioid crisis, and rememberr our over sight information gatin subcommittee will hold a a hearing, or get an update of restoration of puerto rico t infrastructure hurricane last tp year.to b so we'll be able to ask otes questions, but after the votes a we will come backck into our subcommittees to do that work ao ray bond used to say the fun s, never stops.ever the chai

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testify before the foreign affairs committee. listen with the free c-span radio app. facebookr today founder and ceo mark zuckerberg testified on access to users data. this should take in front of the senate judiciary. >>> the judiciary and commerce science and transportation will come to order. we welcome everyone to today's hearing on facebook's social media privacy and the use and abuse of data. although not unprecedented, this is a unique hearing. the issues we will consider range from data privacy and security to consumer protection and the federal trade commission enforcement, touching on jurisdictions of these two committees. we have 44 members between our two committees. that may not seem like a large group by facebook standards, but it is significant here for a hearing in the united states senate. we will do our best to keep things moving efficiently, given our circumstances. we will begin with opening statements from the chairman and ranking members of each committee, starting with chairman thune and then provide with mr. zuckerberg's opening statement. we will then move on

live coverage here on c-span 3 and a reminder, too, if you missed yesterday's hearing you will want to want pieces of that or some of today's hearing all of thatcspa. the other house speaker paul ryan that he would not seek re-election. he would retire at the end of this term in january of 2019. that announcement made at a news conference this morning, and that, too, available on our website at c-span.org. we look for your comments as well on today's hearing and yesterday's. you can do that on facebook. our facebook page, facebook.com/c-span. and tweets as well. we are likely to open up our phone lines after the hearing today to get your reaction. >> i call the energy and commerce committee back to order and recognize the gentleman from new jersey for four minutes for purposes of questions. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. mr. zuckerberg, you are here today because you are the face of facebook, and you have come here voluntarily. our questions are based upon our concern about what has occurred and how to move forward. i'm sure you have concluded based upon what we've asked that we

senate commerce committee, day one is done in the senate, we're opening up our phone lines on c-span 3 to get your thoughts. your reaction in general, are you deleting facebook as a result of recent news out of the company?

adults in the workforce and have a better future for all of us. >> voices from the states come apart of c-span's 50 capitals tour. tour.itols >> mark zuckerberg testified about the abuse of data by cambridge analytica. mr. zuckerberg apologized for what he described as facebook's past mistakes in person -- protecting consumer privacy. he returns to capitol hill tomorrow to testify at a house hearing. now, the senate hearing in its entirety. >>> the judiciary and commerce science and transportation will come to order. we welcome everyone to today's >> -- although not se and abuse of data. although not unprecedented, this is a unique hearing. the issues we will consider range from data privacy and security to consumer protection and the federal trade commission enforcement, touching on jurisdictions of these two committees. we have 44 members between our two committees. that may not seem like a large group by facebook standards, but it is significant here for a hearing in the united states senate. we will do our best to keep things moving efficiently, given our circumstances. we will begin

minutes and reconvene. >> tonight on c-span's q&a, hoover institute senior fellow and offer neil ferguson on his book the square in the tower, networks and power, from the freemason to facebook. me whenwas striking to i interact with these groups is not their power, but also their sense of powerlessness. if you think about the events of example,t to take an not many members of the suppose it world government planned that britain would vote to leave the donaldn union and that trump would become president of the united states. donald trump is not somebody who gets invited to those meetings. and take, for example, the 2008, 2000risis of hundred no one sat there at the meeting in 2009 saying i think -- 2009.eed no one sat there at the meeting in 2009 saying i think what we need is more government. on wednesday, the day after his appearance before the senate committees, mr. zuckerberg testified before the house, energy, and commerce committee

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. and sunday at 4:00 on real former alabama governor george wallace. watch this weekend on the c-span network. zuckerberg ceo mark testified at the second day of hearings from capitol hill -- at capitol hill on his company's user privacy policies. today's hearing included questions about how political consulting firm "cambridge analytica" acquired information from facebook accounts. this is 4.5 hours. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> i would ask our guests to please take their seats and we can get started. committee on energy and commerce will now come to order. before my opening statement, just as a reminder to committee members, it's another busy day. in addition as you will recall, later today, our health subcommittee will hold its third on solutions to combat the opioid crisis and there will be hearing where will we get an upon prosecutor's update. when this hearing concludes, we have votes on the house floor and we wil

the committee hearing, foreign relations thursday, 9:30 a.m. eastern live on c-span 3 as well. i want to take you back to the beginning of today's hearing. and remind you today's hearing airing on c-span. here is the opening statement from mark zuckerberg. >> we face a number of important issues around privacy, safety, and democracy. and you are rightfully have hard questions for me to answer. before i talk about the steps we're taking to address them, i want to talk about how we got here. facebook is an ideal lis stick and optimistic company. we focus on the good people can do. and facebook has grown and got a powerful tool to stay connected to the people they love, for making their voices heard and building communities and businesses. recently, we have seen the me too movement and march for our lives on facebook. hurricane harvey, people came together to raise for than $20 million for relief. and businesses use facebook to create jobs and grow. it is clear we didn't do enough to prevent the tools to be used for harm as well, for fake news, foreign elections, hate speech and develope