Facebook on Board With FDA Opioid Meeting, CEO Says

The CEO of Facebook said he’ll send a representative to a meeting the FDA wants on ways to curtail opioid abuse.

Mark Zuckerberg told a joint Senate panel as part of a hearing April 10 that he’ll respond to Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb’s request that tech and social media companies do their part to fight the epidemic of pain drug abuse.

“Senator, that sounds like an important initiative, and we will send someone,” Zuckerberg said in response to Republican Sen. Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia.

Capito had asked the Facebook CEO for a commitment, noting that ...