How to live stream the European Parliament Meeting with Mark Zuckerberg online
Mark Zuckerberg is set to appear before the European Parliament to discuss the recent controversies surrounding the social media platform as well as the company’s user privacy policies. The meeting has been scheduled from 12:00 PM ET (18:00 CET) to 1:30 PM ET (19:30 CET) with the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani. The event will begin with a handshake and introductions between Tajani and Zuckerberg at 12:00 PM ET (18:00 CET), and the conference will begin at 12:20 PM ET (18:20 CET).
The meeting was initially set to be a private affair, but protests from several Members of Parliament and the public led to the EP President and Facebook CEO to mutually agree to live stream the hearing. The live stream will be accessible from Tajani’s Facebook page.
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The meeting is scheduled to be approximately 75 minutes long and will be much shorter than the congressional hearing in the US that Zuckerberg was a part of in front of US Senators and the House of Representatives. The meeting with the European Parliament is important because of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect soon and recent Facebook data breaches that require policy changes on the social media company's front. The GDPR was created by the European Union to protect user privacy.
How to Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s European Parliament Meeting (Facebook account required)
- Head to the European Parliament’s page to view the schedule for meetings in your local time.
- Open Antonio Tajani’s Facebook Page during the event.
- If you are not logged into your Facebook account, you will be prompted to log in. Put in your login details to get access to the page and react or comment during the live stream.
- A Facebook Live video will be available on the page when the event starts.
- Click on the play button to view the live stream.
How to Watch Mark Zuckerberg’s European Parliament Meeting (Without Facebook Account)
- Head to the European Parliament’s page to view the schedule for meetings in your local time.
- There will be two live streams available for the introductions between Tajani and Zuckerberg at 12:00 PM ET (18:00 CET) and the conference at 12:20 PM ET (18:20 CET).
- Click on the respective links to view the European Parliament live streams.
Zuckerberg is expected to apologize for the recent Cambridge Analytica scandal and discuss the privacy policies that the social media company is expected to change to prevent such incidents in the future. Facebook has already rolled out some features to comply with the new GDPR guidelines that will go into effect.