Social media giant Facebook is set to face an international committee consisting of 22 members from seven countries after facing lawmakers earlier this year over data breaches and failure to tackle political interference.

Richard Allan, Vice President of Policy for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), will face Parliament members of Britain, Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Ireland, Latvia and Singapore next week in London, reports Tech Crunch.

The report says an unprecedented international grand committee comprising 22 representatives from seven parliaments will grill Facebook authorities about the online fake news crisis and the social network’s own string of data misuse scandals.
However, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg refused requests for him to answer parliamentarians’ questions. It’s EMEA policy guy, Richard Allan, will face the panel instead.
A spokesperson of UK’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) parliamentary committee confirmed Facebook declined its last request for Zuckerberg to give evidence telling TechCrunch, “The Committee offered the opportunity for him to give evidence over video link, which was also refused. Facebook has offered Richard Allan, vice president of policy solutions, which the Committee has accepted.
“The Committee still believes that Mark Zuckerberg is the appropriate person to answer important questions about data privacy, safety, security and sharing,” she added. “The recent New York Times investigation raises further questions about how recent data breaches were allegedly dealt with within Facebook.
The DCMS committee has spearheaded the international effort to hold Facebook to account for its role in a string of major data scandals, joining forces with similarly concerned committees across the world, as part of an already wide-ranging enquiry into the democratic impacts of online disinformation that’s been keeping it busy for the best part of this year.