https://www.cnet.com/news/eu-parliament-grills-facebooks-zuckerberg-over-data-mining-election-meddling-cambridge-analytica-congress-live/

Yes, it's as serious as all that.

The 34-year-old multibillionaire testified before the European Union's Parliament on Tuesday. Lawmakers discussed everything from Russian meddling in the 2016 US presidential election, which some argue handed a victory to Donald Trump, to the 87 million user profiles that were mistakenly shared with a now-defunct UK-based political consultancy called Cambridge Analytica.