https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2018/04/06/facebooks-zuckerberg-long-resisted-going-to-congress-now-hell-face-a-reckoning-lawmakers-say/?utm_term=.85e79f0d04e1
Mark Zuckerberg will be testifying in two congressional hearings this week. This will be very interesting to see since Facebook is under investigation all over the world because of their privacy issues, which can have huge implications for the entire tech industry. Many lawmakers want to confront Facebook, “We can no longer go with the mantra ‘trust us’ because they have proven untrustworthy,” Blumenthal said about Facebook." I was surprised to see the responses of many Senators in this article about the big tech companies: Google, Facebook, and Amazon.
I wonder how these hearings will turn out and what Congress will try passing as a result of that. What do you all think about this situation?
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1 comment:
This story even caught SNL's attention. They did a really funny skit on Zuckerberg's "crash course" preparing him for the hearings, his first time testifying before Congress. SNL cast member Alex Moffat played Zuckerberg doing a TV new interview about the upcoming hearings, where Moffat mocked Facebook's approach to personal data.
Here is the skit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqRo9xYKnfA
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