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.@PatrickMcHenry is negative on the House Facebook hearing: "American innovation is on trial."
.@RepMaxineWaters to Mark Zuckerberg: "You announced a new ad policy that gives politicians a license to lie so you can earn more money off this division, I suppose."
Zuckerberg gets tripped up in describing the Facebook fact checking process to @RepMaxineWaters and why they've decided to exempt political ads from the process.
.@congbillposey complains to Mark Zuckerberg that Facebook isn't allowing ads on the "risk" of vaccinations. Vaccinations are safe and necessary for public health.
.@RepAndyBarr asks Mark Zuckerberg to have Facebook commit to not "censoring" ads from Trump, while railing against Democrats for arguing that Facebook should fact check ads.
.@RepBeatty slams Mark Zuckerberg for his "appalling and disgusting" inability to answer her questions on how Facebook handles civil rights issues and basic questions on how many users are African-American.
.@RashidaTlaib shows Mark Zuckerberg photos from Facebook of white supremacists organizing anti-Muslim events while grilling him on his pledge to stop hate groups from using the service. Zuckerberg: "We're not perfect, we make a lot of mistakes."
Noting that misleading and untruthful advertising has led to death threats against her @RashidaTlaib presses Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook's policy of leaving up deceptive political ads.
.@RepKatiePorter asks Mark Zuckerberg if he would personally commit to work as a Facebook content moderator watching the type of extreme videos that have led contractors to have serious mental health issues. He replies that it wouldn't be a good use of his time.
.@RepRiggleman asks Mark Zuckerberg about the accuracy of the movie The Social Network and says he feels like this hearing is "the beginning of Social Network 2." Other members have asked Zuckerberg serious questions about how Facebook affects the USA and the world...
.@AOC asks Mark Zuckerberg if he would allow her to run Facebook ads saying Republicans supported the Green New Deal. He says he doesn't know. Zuckerberg: "I think lying is bad" but then he claims that it's not Facebook's role to take down lies in political ads.
.@AOC asks Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg about the company's use of the Daily Caller as a fact checker, despite repeated, documented instances of the Daily Caller publishing the work of white nationalists.
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