BALDWIN: British lawmakers think Facebook is nothing more than a bunch of digital gangsters. Parliament just released a scathing report that accuses the social media giant of intentionally and knowingly violating their privacy and competition laws and calls out Mark Zuckerberg for showing contempt by not appearing before Parliament. With me now Donie O'Sullivan, CNN Business Reporter, has more on these allegations. It is a pleasure to have you on. What does Facebook have to say about this?</s>DONIE O'SULLIVAN, CNN BUSINESS REPORTER: The central claim that's made by this committee is that Facebook broke privacy and competition laws. And they are basing that on a trove of secret emails that they have managed to get their hands on where they see Zuckerberg and other senior executives talking about how maybe to make it not so clear that, you know, how to set your privacy settings and sort of skirt around what users know about what they are sharing with the company. What these lawmakers are essentially saying is that the era of self- regulation should come to an end, that is time to properly regulate Facebook, Google and all the Silicon Valley platforms. They can no longer be trusted to regulate themselves.</s>BALDWIN: Digital gangsters is pretty strong from these MPs over in England. We'll look for the fallout. Good to have you on. Come back. All right. That does it for me here on this Monday afternoon on this President's day. Thank you for being here. A reminder of a big event tonight on CNN 10 PM Eastern, Senator Amy Klobuchar in the hot seat taking questions from folks in New Hampshire. The whole thing is moderated by Don Lemon. Please tune in for that. That is it for me. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Let's go to Washington. "THE LEAD" with Jake Tapper starts right now.
Britain Accuses Facebook of Being Digital Gangsters.