Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg met US President Donald Trump and members of Congress on September 20 where he refused to break up entities of world's biggest social media network. Zuckerberg’s meeting was a part of a political reconnaissance mission to Washington. Amid various controversies regarding digital privacy, censorship and transparency in political vertising, Zuckerberg’s visit was aimed at calming down atmosphere. A Facebook spokesman said that discussions were focusing in part on future internet regulation.

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Republican call for break up

US Senator from Missouri and Republican Josh Hawley said that he h a ‘frank’ conversation with Zuckerberg. "Challenged him to do two things to show FB is serious about bias, privacy & competition. 1) Sell WhatsApp & Instagram 2) Submit to independent, third-party audit on censorship. He said to both," tweeted Hawley. While Trump shared an im of him shaking hands with Zuckerberg, he didn’t divulge any details about minutes of meeting. "Nice meeting with Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook in Oval Office today," wrote US President.

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Democrats t on same p

Facebook, Inc. currently owns messaging app WhatsApp and photo, video-sharing social networking service Instagram, which makes company a social media giant. While Hawley called for Facebook’s dismantlement, Democrat Senator Mark Warner said he was t prepared to call for it. "I'm t yet with some of my friends who want to go straight to break up," Warner told an American business news channel. "I am concerned. se are global companies, and I don't want to transfer leership to Chinese companies," he ded.

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Facebook's 'Supreme Court'

Earlier, Facebook h unveiled its blueprint for an independent oversight board, where people can appeal to review company’s content decisions. Facebook gave details on structure of oversight board and its relationship to Facebook in form of a charter. “We are responsible for enforcing our policies every day and we make millions of content decisions every week. But ultimately I don't believe private companies like ours should be making so many important decisions about speech on our own. That's why I've called for governments to set clearer standards around harmful content. It's also why we're w giving people a way to appeal our content decisions by establishing independent Oversight Board,” said Zuckerberg in a Facebook post.

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