Thread by @DominicGwinn

.@Jack staring at his phone with a sloppy beard, no tie, and tweeting during a US Senate Intelligence Hearing encapsulates Silicon Valley's detachment with the rest of the world.

The difference between Sandberg and Dorsey is that Jack looks like he wandered in from a coffee shop in Union Station. Sandberg seems like she's spent the last few weeks preparing with an army of lawyers.

Mark Warner asks Sandberg if people should have a right to know what data Facebook collects. Naturally Sandberg says "privacy control," and "transparency" "innovation" and "let's work on that!"

This is why Facebook is evil.

Facebook was directly responsible for genocide in Myanmar, according to the UN.

Sandberg's response is basically, "yeah...that sucked."

news.un.org/en/story/2018/…
theverge.com/2018/8/28/1778…

Sandberg and Dorsey says their platforms don't allow violence or hate speech.

Dorsey says "Trust and Safety" designs and writes their policies...

Sen. Wyden: Personal data is now the weapon of choice for [bad actors].

Sen. Wyden: Protecting data privacy has to be the higher tier of legislation.

Wyden: What are you doing to prevent microtargeting misinformation during elections? "What do you do to deal with microtargeting"

Sandberg: "We have a combination of people reviewing adsa dna combination of...machine learning."

Dorsey: Yeah, we see some bullshit...
Sandberg: "It depends on you you define a hoax, but we've certainly seen some misinformation campaigns."

Marco Rubio whipping out his retractable spine this morning.

Asking what happens when an authoritarian regime asks to disseminate truthiness?

Many subtle. Such brave. Wow.

Dorsey: We'd like to fight for everyone being screwed over by, like, bad dudes, but, bruh, that shit's, like, mad hard.

AAAANND Rubio's done. He got his photo op. BRUNCH TIME!

Sandberg: "Trust is the cornerstone of our business....people have to trust that this is a positive force for democracy."

Dorsey: "Our incentives are aligned....[but] I believe we need to question the fundamental incentives that are in our product today..."

Blame it on the user

Dorsey: "How do we encourage healthy participation?

It's Simple: ban the Nazis. It's not rocket science.

nytimes.com/2018/09/04/tec…

Susan Collins: What are you doing to stop Russian fuckery?

Dorsey: not enough, LOLOL!!!!!!

Susan Collins: We need to tell people that they were victims of foreign influence campaigns. What is Facebook doing?

Sandberg: we notify people directly if they like IRA accounts, or RSVP to events.

Sen. Collins: Why doesn't Twitter notify individuals that we have been targeted by foreign adversaries?

Dorsey: We recognize we need to communicate more where people are on our service...

Sen. Kamala Harris: Good morning to the INVISIBLE WITNESS!

Sen. Harris: what did you mean when you said amount of money you got from Russia was "immaterial?"

Sandberg: FFFFFFFUUUUUUUU -- wait, I got a talking point for this! "They're .004% of our annual revenue...."

Harris: Wut?

Sandberg: "ads don't run with inorganic content on our service. There's no way to ascertain what inorganic content runs on our service....

Harris: What percentage?

Sandberg: Here, let me throw you some more numbers...

Harris: When did you address hate speech as a policy?

Sandberg: it was a bad policy.

Harris: So...

Sandberg: ...I can get back to you....

Sen. Roy Blunt: Are y'all going to bring back them blue check marks for good boys and girls?

Dorsey: IDK...is the number of followers you have for a good proxy for validation?

That's...actually a good non-answer...

Dorsey: I'd be cool with more transparency as long as it was, you know, legal...

Dorsey: responding to Roy Blunt about notifying hacking is pretty fair here basically says, "All this 'security' stuff? It's as new for us as it is for you. I'm barely making money, and y'all suddenly want me to be Zero Coo? You need to get your shit together as bad as we do!"

Dorsey to King: We need to do better with verifying information on our product, but all the journalists do that for us...sooo....you know...

Thanks dick.

Sen. King: RE: DeepFakes - Is there a technological way to determine how a video has been manipulated so if people see a video it'll have a warning?

Sandberg: We're going to throw money at that problem and hope that solves it.

Sen. Lankford: Do you hold information from suspended accounts?

Dorsey: IDK....
Sandberg: If we think it's like, Russia...

Lankford: OK, but do you store records to correlate fake/fuckery accounts?

Dorsey: Sort of? We work with cops...

Dorsey: we do have a "ban evasion" policy.

Lankford: "What's going on with WhatsApp?"
Sandberg: "We're very committed to encryption."

OK....

Sen. Manchin: What responsibility do you have to people who bought opioids on your platform and died?

---crickets---

Manchin using the hearing to pander to his base by asking why they don't do business in China. Despite the fact that they're both blocked, the Chinese use their own native platforms, and most US firms find it uncomfortable to instal backdoors for CCP.

Except Google.

Sen. Cotton really enjoying hearing himself speak today.

Sen. Cotton: Do you see a difference between cooperating with the US government, Russia, or China? "Do you prefer to see America as the worlds dominant super power?"

Dorsey: "We need to be consistent with our terms of service." We need to protect the rights and privacy of users.

Sen. Reed read a newspaper about the internets. He saw an robot once too, back during the war - mean sum'bitch. Fought a giant lizard. Scary as hell.

Any who, I think we need to talk about "who owns my data."

Warner and Burr acknowledge that this hearing was better than others.
Burr: There is a very human component to all of this. No single algorithm can fix all of this...it serves as the family newsletter...

HotTake: Jack isn't anywhere near as creepy or robotic as Mark Zuckerberg.