The American focus period is low this time,

The American focus period is low this time, and if you forget, then you have been forgiven that in January recently people thought seriously that Mark Zuckerberg could run for president in 2020. It was not an absurd suggestion: the 33-year-old industry is the most important American company headlines since Microsoft, whose leaders have organized a revered position in the US since the days of Steve Jobs in order to think about the future. Are there. Last year, the famous publicity tour of Zuckerberg in the country's fortress certainly did not reduce the mind of doubt.


Things change rapidly, especially in technology this week, Zuckerberg had arrived in Washington to clarify the scowling tribunals of MPs on Capitol Hill, as a company whose user base is in the fourth quarter of the world, the personal information of its users Systematically failed to preserve. And to liberate that information which was known about.


After a collective nine-hour investigation, an alternative, worried, defensive, bored and weather-related Zuckerberg - who was sitting on a thick pillow that looked like their 5 feet, 7 inches tall - gave the members of the Congress Tried to understand that Facebook is sorry for its negligence, actively working to activate them for future and open to new laws that regulate social media companies The CEO refused to say a lot about this final point.


Congress was uncompressed Prior to a joint Senate panel, his testimony was a low-kilowatt catastrophe: a demonstration that is more than anything, MPs have very little information about social media platforms, which they expect to regulate. (At one point, Utah's Sen. Aureen Hatch, who is 84 years old, asked Zuckerberg how money is making money. "Senator, we run advertising," Zuckerberg answered with a mixture of that confidence and astonishment. Since then, a GIF of several memes that have gone viral.)


Meanwhile, the House saw, eager to avoid the mistakes of his colleagues in the upper room. On Wednesday, when he got the opportunity of a social media giant grill, a dozen members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee suppressed him from the lack of racial diversity in Facebook's C-suite to a thick federal array of subjects. That platform is being used allegedly for traffic, Fentanyl and ISIS are being used to recruit young jihadis.


It was occasionally hurting the theater, but conversations roamed on most issues, who had created storm clouds of public outrage in the first place, hanging on Zuckerberg. Last month, media outlets told that with the link of Republican operators known as Cambridge Analyst, the shady data-mining firm had acquired personal information of about 87 million American people - this information to take an innocuous personality quiz on the site. Unintentionally given notifications by This, along with the old news, Russian actors used Facebook pages and advertisements to "bury sour" for the presidential election of 2016, rejecting the main nervousness of this moment of calculation: Facebook Acquisition of Power Sites like the 21st Century America


"Facebook is so big, has grown so fast," Republic Bobby Rush, an Illinois Democrat, said in the first hour of the hearing. "This is no longer the company that you started in your hostel room, instead it is one of the great American success stories. It comes with very effective social responsibility, on which you have failed to work and To protect and consider. "


Rush, who was active in civil rights movement in the 1960s, also gave a more embarrassing assessment. "I personally was a victim of Kinetellers," he told Zuckerberg, referring to the domestic rivalry program of the Cold War that illegal entrepreneurs and wandering people and groups deemed destructive, among them civil rights leaders "your organization In my opinion, your method is the same ... Mr. Zuckerberg, the method of Facebook and the method of American political parade J. Edgar Hoover What difference does? "


"This is an important question," Zuckerberg answered. It was not clear whether he was serious


When Zuckerberg was pressurized to tell how the company was addressing the previous oversight, the answer was diluted and repetitive. He repeatedly said that Facebook was auditing third-party actors on the site that could access the users' personal data incorrectly, but will not elaborate or not. Members of the House Committee, many of whom had seen the Senate hearing, experimented a little patience for repetition and were quick to call them.


Michigan Democrat-Republican Debi Dingel said in the last hour of the hearing on Wednesday afternoon, "We are all sitting here for more than four hours, and some things are striking by this conversation." "As CEO, you did not know a few key facts. You did not know some court cases against your company's privacy

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