CNN’s Laurie Segall Grills Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg in Rare TV Interview: Can People ‘Trust Facebook?’

With his company’s stock value cratering this week — having fallen nearly 10 percent since Monday — Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg granted a rare TV interview to CNN in order to try to control the damage from the recent revelation that data firm Cambridge Analytica had access to millions of users’ personal data from Facebook without consent.

The interview was conducted by CNN’s senior technology correspondent Laurie Segall. And she put the question directly to Zuckerberg.

“Can [people] trust Facebook?” Segall asked.

“So one of the most important things that I think we need to do here is make sure that we tell everyone whose data was affected by one of these rogue apps, right?” Zuckeberg said — gliding right past Segall’s question. “And we’re going to do that. We’re going to build a tool where anyone can go and see if their data was a part of this.”

Zuckerberg put out a statement earlier today calling Cambridge University researcher Aleksandr Kogan‘s sharing of Facebook user data with Cambridge Analytica and Cambridge Analytica’s potential failure to delete this data when asked is “a breach of trust between Kogan, Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.”

“It was also a breach of trust between Facebook and the people who share their data with us and expect us to protect it,” Zuckerberg wrote. “We need to fix that.”

Senators on both sides of the aisle have been furious over the news. Wednesday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) demanded that Zuckerberg testify before Congress.

“You need to come to Congress and testify to this under oath,” Markey tweeted.

We will post the complete interview momentarily. In the meantime, watch the first part above, via CNN.

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