Chairman of House Committee Looking Into Facebook Wants 'Facts First,' Not Regulation

Rep. Greg Walden also says Apple should add FM chips to iPhones

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Rep. Greg Walden, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, called Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg “an incredible innovator.”

“He’s changed the world,” Walden said during a keynote discussion at the opening of the NAB Show in Las Vegas.

Zuckerberg will appear before Walden’s committee Wednesday. In fact, just after his appearance at the NAB Show, Walden said he was going to be speaking with Zuckerberg about his testimony.

Zuckerberg, whose opening remarks were released this morning, said Facebook “didn’t do enough to prevent” the social platform’s tools “from being used for harm.”

“That

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