Mark Zuckerberg confirms Facebook working with special counsel’s office

By Melissa Quinn

Published April 10, 2018 8:10pm ET

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Mark Zuckerberg confirms Facebook working with special counsel’s office — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifies before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, April 10, 2018, about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 presidential election. | Graeme Jennings

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg confirmed Tuesday his company is working with special counsel Robert Mueller’s team as part of the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

Zuckerberg told Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., during a joint hearing before the Senate Commerce and Judiciary committees that Facebook employees have been interviewed by the special counsel’s office, but that he had not.

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