Senate moves Zuckerberg hearing to a bigger room as interest explodes

By Pete Kasperowicz

Published April 10, 2018 12:30pm ET

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Senate moves Zuckerberg hearing to a bigger room as interest explodes — Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg arrives on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, April 9, 2018, to meet with Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Fla., the ranking member of the Senate Commerce Committee. Zuckerberg will testify Tuesday before a joint hearing of the Commerce and Judiciary Committees about the use of Facebook data to target American voters in the 2016 election. | J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press

Tuesday’s Senate hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been moved to a larger hearing room to accommodate the huge public interest in what’s expected to be hours of testimony on data privacy, “fake news” and Russia’s use of the social media giant to influence the 2016 election.

The hearing was originally set to be held in a room at the U.S. Capitol Visitor Center.

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