Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg has agreed to testify before the U.S. Congress following the data harvesting scandal that has tainted the company’s reputation and prompted several investigations.

According to reports today, Zuckerberg will face the music “within a matter of weeks” and the company is planning a strategy before Zuckerberg meets with the House Energy and Commerce Committee.

But the CEO will not be going to the U.K. to testify before Parliament. In his place, Facebook will send Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer and Chief Product Officer Chris Cox. Zuckerberg had been asked by Conservative MP Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, to discuss political research firm Cambridge Analytica and its possible involvement in the Brexit referendum vote.

On Tuesday, Rebecca Stimson, Facebook’s U.K. head of policy, said the company accepted that those at the most senior levels of the company were expected to make the trip to London, but that they would be “deputies.” Both Zuckerberg and Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg will not be testifying across the pond.

On Tuesday, one of the men at the center of the scandal, Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie, gave oral evidence in front of a parliamentary committee stating that Facebook would have been aware of the data harvesting and that it was reasonable to conclude that data manipulation could have affected the Brexit vote.

“I think, given the extraordinary evidence we’ve heard so far today, it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing, given these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to his users, as well as to this inquiry,” Collins said in a statement, ominously adding, “I would certainly urge him to think again if he has any care for people that use his company’s services.”

Tom Watson, deputy leader of the Labour Party and shadow culture secretary, was equally flustered at the no-show, calling it “cowardly” and “completely unacceptable.”

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