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In his first appearance before Congress since he launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room 14 years ago, Mark Zuckerberg took responsibility on April 10 for how his social network has been improperly used for political means, insisting that the company is working to prevent future malfeasance. The 33-year-old appeared nervous but contrite as he took the stand before a rare joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees, which together comprise nearly half of the members of the Senate on whole. "It was my mistake, and I’m sorry," he said. "I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here." His appearance, which was expected to last several hours, was a dramatic culmination of months of controversy over how Facebook allowed its medium to be misused during the 2016 presidential election. Last year, it was learned that Russians relied on the platform to foster political discord, using Facebook advertisements and pages to disseminate misinformation. Several weeks ago, media outlets reported that Cambridge Analytica, a data-mining company with ties to the Trump campaign and other Republican entities, had acquired from Facebook the private data of nearly 100 million of the site’s users. Read more on TIME.com. Video source: Associated Press

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