Politician urges government to regulate facebook after series of scandals

Facebook Chairman and CEO Mark Zuckerberg previously said the company would put community before profit. [Photo: Courtesy]

There are increasing calls for Facebook to be subject to external regulation after a series of scandals that has seen user data sold and the site's security compromised.

US representative David Cicilline said that Facebook cannot be trusted to regulate itself and that Congress should intervene. Cicilline, a Democrat from Rhode Island, will soon become the Chairman of a congressional antitrust panel.