<div>Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg was today summoned before a UK parliamentary committee amid a growing row over data breaches linked to the popular social media company.</div>''<div>&nbsp;</div>''<div>The summons letter to 33-year-old Zuckerberg was sent by Damian Collins, the chair of the House of Commons Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, which is investigating the issue of fake news.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The letter states, it is now time to hear from a senior Facebook executive with the sufficient authority to give an accurate account of this catastrophic failure of process.</div>''<div></div>''<div>The letter has come as the UK's Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham said she would be applying to court for a warrant to search the offices of the UK-based political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica.&nbsp;</div>''<div><br />''</div>''<div>The firm is accused of using the data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the 2016 US presidential election.</div>''<div>&nbsp;</div>''<div>The company, which counts India among a list of numerous countries where it has done election-related work, is in the eye of a storm after its senior executives were filmed by an undercover reporter giving examples of how the firm could discredit political rivals by arranging various smear campaigns.</div>''<div><br />''</div>