Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was offered a challenge by Senator Josh Hawley on Friday to sell his WhatsApp and Instagram properties in order to prove his seriousness about protecting data privacy. Along with this, Hawley challenged him to submit it to independent, third-party censorship. However, Zuckerberg has denied to do eir of it. Senator and Zuckerberg held a private meeting in Senator's Capitol Hill office on Friday.

According to reports, Senator Hawley stated that, "he will believe Facebook when he seems some real action happening." According to him, company should eir put a wall around services or sell m, inste of moving social media users' data. Zuckerberg has denied commenting on matter. However, Senator Josh Hawley stated that former denied challenge.

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In meeting on Friday, Zuckerberg met or senators including Mark Warner, D-Va, Vice Chairman of Senate Intelligence Committee, and Mike Lee, R-Utah, a senior member of Judiciary Committee. y discussed several matters like industry competition, data privacy legislation, election security and accusations by conservatives that Facebook and or social media giants are biased against right-leaning content, said reports. It was Zuckerberg's first public visit to Washington since he testified before Congress last spring about privacy, election interference and or issues.

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Facebook controversy 

Facebook has been under some heavy inspection from lawmakers and regulators after a series of privacy scandals. Though privacy matter has been settled, Facebook, earlier this month disclosed that Federal Tre Commission (FTC) is investigating  company separately for anti-trust issues. FTC along with Justice Department and House Judiciary is conducting investigation of big tech companies. Facebook is a social media giant with nearly 2.5 million users. According to reports, senators' mess for Zuckerberg was that 'self-regulation is t answer'. 

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