This hot mic moment after Facebook testified this morning will get the most attention but I’ll paste a few other clips in this thread. /1
Canada continues to come prepared to ask fair and challenging questions. For instance, this reference to how FB’s Zuckerberg aggressively pushed back on UK Parliament in 2018. ps are we to believe a FB lobbyist really learned the term, “astroturfing” during Google hearing? /2
And also press on how whistleblower docs showed Facebook plotted to cause chaos in Australia by broadly blocking news and other critical information after the Senate vote but prior to becoming law. /3
Canada even asked about the “Jedi Blue” deal with Google which despite (or maybe because of) being in private and Justice Department lawsuits, Facebook apparently wants to deflect to Google. /4
By the way, when Facebook says they don’t “collect content from news websites,” please ask them about the pixels they’ve disclosed in discovery across over 8 million websites harvesting data to train their ad targeting which is 97% of their revenues. /5
Just in case anyone on Canadian Parliament thinks they actually answered one of your questions here, she quoted their revenues for all of North America which are already publicly available every quarter. /6
And I’ll end with an answer given to Facebook and Google’s most dutiful shield on this committee. FB would like us to know their great concern with the #c18 legislation is that it could tie the fate of the news sector to Facebook and Google due to their revenue payments. 🤦🏻♂️/7
Regarding the first tweet, the audio feed had a little bit more context as the Chair described Facebook witness’s remarks as “quite inappropriate.” /8
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