Senate tech critic to Facebook CEO: Sell WhatsApp, Instagram

WASHINGTON — As Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg met Thursday with President Donald Trump and other critics of the tech industry, the Senate's most vocal detractor offered a challenge: Sell your WhatsApp and Instagram properties to prove you're serious about protecting data privacy.

Rather than moving users' personal data from properties such as WhatsApp and Instagram to the core Facebook platform, the company should put a wall around the services or, better yet, sell them off, Hawley said he told Zuckerberg.Zuckerberg"had a good, constructive meeting with President Trump at the White House today," a Facebook spokesman said.

Lee's office said the two discussed bias against conservatives on Facebook's platform, regulation of online services, enforcement of antitrust laws in the tech industry and data privacy issues. It was Zuckerberg's first public visit to Washington since he testified before Congress last spring about privacy, election interference and other issues.

At Facebook's request, Warner helped organize a dinner meeting in Washington on Wednesday night for Zuckerberg and a group of senators.

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