WASHINGTON: Facebook Inc chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will be grilled by lawmakers over the company's plan to launch a digital currency and efforts to prevent foreign election interference when he appears before a Congressional panel on Wednesday.
He is also likely to be quizzed on the company's steps to combat misinformation and voter suppression ahead of the November 2020 U.S. presidential election. That scandal badly damaged Facebook's image in Washington and has compounded worries among lawmakers that the social media giant cannot be trusted to launch a global digital currency to its 2.4 billion users.
She has called on Facebook to halt its planned 2020 launch and has drafted legislation that would bar tech companies from entering financial services.
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