Facebook Inc. Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer Thursday was grilled in front of a U.K. parliamentary committee over the recent data harvesting scandal and the impact of the social network on society, but he left the politicians wanting much more: namely, his boss.

Schroepfer (pictured) faced what most media believed was a more testing line of questioning from the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee than Facebook founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg endured in front of Congress over two days, seeming to deflect questions relating to the Cambridge Analytica leak and skirting around questions over privacy concerns.

This session sums up the whole Facebook problem. UK parliament wants to understand the threat to our entire democratic structure.  Facebook sends techie-in-chief who talks about details of automated systems. It’s just another sign that Facebook doesn’t get it.

— Carole Cadwalladr (@carolecadwalla) April 26, 2018

Questions aimed at the CTO were mostly along the lines of how much Facebook makes from ads, especially “dark ads,” as well as how individuals might be able to have more control over what they see in terms of ads, what data is collected on non-Facebook users and what Facebook knew about Cambridge Analytica before the cat was let out of the bag.

Another interesting line of questioning was why did move 1.5 billion accounts to Facebook Inc. from Facebook Ireland right before the General Data Protection Regulation on data use goes into effect next month.

Schroepfer, like Zuckerberg, said the company hadn’t done enough in the past to get a handle on political ads and fake news, and assured the committee that only verified accounts will be able to place ads. He also said a “searchable archive” of political ads and who placed them will become available. This will come in time for England’s and Northern Ireland’s 2019 local elections.

Conservative MP Julian Knight didn’t mince his words, calling the platform a “morality-free zone” where the public’s privacy is continually breached. As for the data harvesting scandal, he said not to blame third parties. “Your company is the problem,” he said.

Knight was also critical of how Facebook has dealt with the press, call the company a bully. Schroepfer replied, “I am sorry that journalists feel that we are trying to prevent them from getting the truth out. That is not the intent.”

Damian Collins, the head of the parliamentary committee on digital culture and the media, was not content with the hearing, and said that when Mark Zuckerberg is over in May to testify in front of the European Parliament he will request he also appears in front of the DCMS.

“We believe that, given the large number of outstanding questions for Facebook to answer, Mark Zuckerberg should still appear in front of the Committee,” said Collins.

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