What We Learned From Zuckerberg’s Interviews

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg broke his silence about the crisis over political-advertising firm Cambridge Analytica’s access to user data on the social network, giving a series of interviews to media organizations Wednesday including The New York Times, Wired, CNN and Recode.

Zuckerberg acknowledged Facebook’s mishandling of the data and pledged to take steps to restore the public trust. He said Facebook will inform every one of its two billion-plus users that may have been compromised and promised to investigate whether Cambridge Analytica still holds the information it obtained from a third-party app creator. Facebook is also widening its probe into whether other developers may have run afoul of the company’s rules.