# Professor Vasant Dhar explains how other social media platforms could be subject to similar scrutiny after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional testimony

1 Faculty News April 13, 2018 ![Barron's logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031072.jpg?itok=FtY-yu99)>

Excerpt from [Barron's](https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-took-arrows-from-congress-this-week-google-twitter-could-be-next-1523638934) -- "[Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), a NYU Stern School of Business professor and data scientist, believes social-media platforms such as Twitter and Google’s YouTube are 'likely to be under fire,' though Apple and Google proper are 'in a better position to protect the data of their consumers.'"

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