Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is testifying before Congress this week. His prepared remarks are out, and they’re verrrrrrrrrry interesting. You can read ’em here.
“It’s clear now that we didn’t do enough to prevent these tools from being used for harm as well. That goes for fake news, foreign interference in elections, and hate speech, as well as developers and data privacy,” Zuckerberg said in the prepared remarks, which were released by the House Committee on Energy and Commerce on Monday.
“We didn’t take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a big mistake. It was my mistake, and I’m sorry. I started Facebook, I run it, and I’m responsible for what happens here.”
So he’s taking responsibility. That’s cool, I guess. But it’d be cooler if he didn’t leave out key chunks of information.
Again, Zuckerberg’s prepared remarks on data collecting skip the years 2008 – 2012. https://t.co/2zL4zjAJRN pic.twitter.com/E2PgDGt051
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018
I guess he just didn’t think those years were very important?
Good thing no major politician or data firm did any mining during those years or this would all seem slightly partisan and incomplete.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018
Totally. It’d be SUPER awkward and obvious.
Oh, weird.https://t.co/Jf2pnJg86T
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018
I’m sure it’s just a minor oversight by Zuckerberg pic.twitter.com/LaXTw3VeGb
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018
He probably just forgot. We shouldn’t be so hard on him!
I mean, I don’t know about you but I’m satisfied. pic.twitter.com/cZgBCjBVPA
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018
Chances any member of Congress still trying to decipher that internetted “series of tubes” or figure out that you actually shouldn’t click those viagra ads asks about this I would say are pretty much zero.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018
Zuckerberg is going to walk in tomorrow and pwn Congress because not a single one of them has the first fucking clue what he’s referencing.
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018
This is pretty much how Zuckerberg’s testimony is going to go https://t.co/XHWp9VOzSA
— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) April 9, 2018
Nothing to see here (or in those Obama years he deliberately skipped over). Move along everyone!
h/t Twitchy