The 3 Major Takeaways From Zuckerberg’s Testimony To Congress
Since allowing the social network monopoly to police itself for more than a decade, Washington and federal regulators are finally forcing the company’s hand — for better or worse.
BAILEY T. STEEN | THURSDAY, APRIL 19, 2018
THE WASHINGTON ESTABLISHMENT is no friend to Mark Zuckerberg, the controversial tech CEO who gave two testimonies to Congress last week following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Other than the universal loathing of Lena Dunham, it appears these days the only uniting force in America is the hatred of Facebook —Zuckerberg’s company that’s been left to police itself for more than a decade until they recently exposed the data of up to 87 million users to a Trump-linked political consulting firm.
Reasons behind the Facebook scorn vary, of course. Democrats were quick to blame the company for interfering in the 2016 presidential election, committing the scandalous act of somehow dethroning Hillary Clinton as America’s queen. Republicans also hate the tech giant because globalism, techno-elites and partisan cries of free speech comprise their movement. The average people hate Facebook because it’s an out-of-touch censorship machine…
