Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony will come in a hearing slated for 10 a.m. on April 11. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images Zuckerberg confirmed to testify next week before House lawmakers

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is on deck to testify next week before the House Energy and Commerce Committee, panel leaders announced Wednesday.

Zuckerberg will testify during a hearing scheduled for 10 a.m. on April 11. Facebook has been negotiating over the past week with multiple congressional panels that have summoned Zuckerberg to testify. The social media giant is under scrutiny amid revelations that Trump-linked data firm Cambridge Analytica secretly accessed and used some 50 million Facebook users’ data.


This is the first confirmation that Zuckerberg will appear on Capitol Hill.

“This hearing will be an important opportunity to shed light on critical consumer data privacy issues and help all Americans better understand what happens to their personal information online,” Energy and Commerce Chairman Greg Walden (R-Ore.) and ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) said in a joint statement. “We appreciate Mr. Zuckerberg’s willingness to testify before the committee, and we look forward to him answering our questions on April 11th.”



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