How to watch livestream of Mark Zuckerberg at European Parliament

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is set to appear before the European Parliament to face questions about data misuse and privacy on the social network.

A livestream of the hearing will be available to anyone who wants to watch online, after Antonio Tajani, president of the European Parliament, backtracked on an announcement last week that it would take place in private.

“I have personally discussed with Facebook CEO Mr Zuckerberg the possibility of webstreaming meeting with him,” Mr Tajani said on Twitter.

“I am glad to announce that he has accepted this new request. Great news for EU citizens. I thank him for the respect shown towards EP.”

The hearing follows the Cambridge Analytica scandal, in which the profiles of 87 million Facebook users were shared with the UK data firm.

Personal information was then used to profile the users for the purpose of political profiling in the US Presidential Election campaign in 2016 and the UK's EU referendum of the same year.

Mr Zuckerberg has previously appeared before Congress to face questions from US law makers about the scandal.

The UK has previously summoned Mr Zuckerberg to appear at Parliament, but the Facebook founder is yet to agree to a meeting.

"If Facebook truly recognises the 'seriousness' of these issues as it says it does, we would expect that Mark Zuckerberg would want to appear in front of the Committee and answer questions that are of concern not only to the UK Parliament, but Facebook's tens of millions of users in this country," said Damian Collins, chair of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, in a letter to the social network.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who is a Member of the European Parliament, said he will “confront” the Facebook founder on perceived bias on the social network.

The livestream of the hearing at the European Parliament will be hosted here at 5.15 p.m. to 6.30 p.m. BST.

The hearing can also be viewed directly at this link.