Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on Capital Hill last week where he was grilled by Senators and Congressmen over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Host Dan Loney speaks with Lyle Ungar, Professor of Computer and Information Science at Penn Engineering, and Jennifer Golbeck, Director of the Social Intelligence Lab and an Information Studies Professor at the University of Maryland, to discuss the information revealed at the hearing and whether regulation is inevitable for social media giants on Knowledge at Wharton.

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