Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Facebook wants to use the Jio deal to get thousands of small businesses on-boarded onto WhatsApp to do commerce in India

Sundar Pichai squirms when asked whether he signed off on the company's 2016 decision to merge data from the advertising company Double Click

Facebook, Trump and Twitter controversy: The story so far

It is unclear how Trump could follow through on the threat of shutting down social media companies. President, himself is a heavy user of Twitter with more than 80 million followers

The backlash against big tech's ideological blind spot comes less than a week after Trump signed an executive order escalating his war with social media companies over how they monitor content

Cambridge Analytica, a British consulting company, was accused of harvesting data of up to 50 million Facebook users