Facebook boss is grilled for wriggling out of Parliament sessions

A senior MP today launched a blistering attack on Facebook - accusing the social media giant of trying to dodge questions and treating Parliament with contempt. Labour MP Helen Jones gave the company a ferocious dressing down for pulling out of appearances in front of her select committee. She warned Karim Palant, Facebook's UK public policy chief, that 'you do not play games with the House of Commons'. Her furious rebuke came as the Facebook boss joined Twitter and Google chiefs in being grilled by MPs on what they are doing to tackle online abuse and extremism. Mr Karim admitted to MPs that the tech firm took down 2.5 million hate speech posts in the first three months of the year. The grilling kicked off to a tense start when Ms Jones, the chairwoman of the petitions select committee, tore into Mr Palant and his colleagues for wriggling out of committee sessions.
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[@williamcallister3276]

People need to leave Facebook and Twitter

[@timothywestwood7566]

"young men in your company may play games..."
I'm not sure that that piece of blatant sexism from the MP was caled for...

[@hj7008]

Facebook sent Dennis the Menace

[@trentrylan882]

A trick : watch series on kaldrostream. I've been using it for watching lots of of movies recently.

[@fletcherenrique6136]

@Trent Rylan Yea, been using Kaldrostream for since december myself :D

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Oh my

[@taradeleeuw2344]

And harm

[@richf6111]

Why wasn’t Aaron Banks threatened with a summons when he walked out of his session because he wanted to get to a ‘luncheon’ Eh .....Eh?...

[@shephrdchivaura8976]

I wonder what he is thinking while she is ranting away.....

[@YourLocalGP]

Can't wait to get back to my Nintendo Switch

[@taradeleeuw2344]

Games is their gig

[@luciansanchez2411]

...thats how we do ot in the UK!

[@helmutspanker]

I'm curious... the company representatives are there voluntarily, right? Seems the old girl is on a bit of a power trip behaving like a school headmaster. She makes a lot of accusations and assumptions and paints the other party in quite a bad light. I was curious to hear what his response was, assuming he was allowed to get a word in edge ways.

[@paulrone2387]

Voluntarily yes, they are invited, they can however be summonsed.

[@MrUnder30seconds]

why do we not play games with the house of commons?
who made up that rule? let me guess.

[@davidallen5066]

Fun boy three companies who have the notion that they are above insight

[@paddynesbitt1538]

Grilled? No. The poor sod was talked at. :-)

[@Peter-dr9ch]

Then what is it to be grilled?

[@krisb-travel]

Power trip by a typical middle aged woman clinging to relevance and authority that’s long gone