**OFFICE OF CHARLIE ANGUS NEWS RELEASE**

Timmins—James Bay MP Charlie Angus was in London, UK, this week to participate in an international grand committee on data and misinformation along with parliamentarians from 8 other countries, including the United Kingdom, France and Ireland. He attended with fellow Canadian ethics committee members from the Conservative and Liberal parties.

 

Angus opened the inquiry with questions for Facebook’s representative Richard Allan, asking him to account for Mark Zuckerberg’s failure to appear, as well as about Facebook’s corporate culture and lack of accountability.

 

“Our democratic institutions and our civil conversation seem to have been upended by frat boy billionaires from California. So Mr. Zuckerberg’s decision not to appear here at Westminster to me speaks volumes.”

 

He also asked about the need for regulation or anti-trust scrutiny of Facebook.

 

The exchange between Angus and the UK’s head of Facebook was covered by media as wide ranging as the Chicago Tribune, Irish Times, CNN and the London Times.

 

Angus returns from the United Kingdom Thursday.

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