Mark Zuckerberg concedes Facebook will eventually have to be regulated

By Kelly Cohen

Published April 11, 2018 3:20pm ET

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Mark Zuckerberg concedes Facebook will eventually have to be regulated — Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., leaves a meeting with members of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013. Zuckerberg in April announced the formation of an advocacy group, Fwd.us, to push for more visas for skilled immigrant workers. He pressed that cause yesterday in a meeting with Senator Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat. Photographer: Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images | Bloomberg

Mark Zuckerberg escaped a joint Senate hearing Tuesday afternoon by dodging questions about regulating Facebook, but he conceded Wednesday that regulation is “inevitable.”

“The Internet is growing in importance around the world […] and I think that it is inevitable that there will need to be some regulation,” he told Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., when asked about possible regulations that would affect the company he founded.

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