Honest test: if you closed your eyes, would you even know if it was a Republican or Democrat, asking the questions? Let’s do four clips here: (1 of 4)
Honest test: if you closed your eyes, would you even know if it was a Republican or Democrat, asking the questions? Let’s do four clips here: (2 of 4)
Honest test: if you closed your eyes, would you even know if it was a Republican or Democrat, asking the questions? Let’s do four clips here: (3 of 4)
Honest test: if you closed your eyes, would you even know if it was a Republican or Democrat, asking the questions? Let’s do four clips here: (4 of 4)
This is on top of the note that Senator Hawley and Warren also agree on the antitrust issue.
Anyway, keep me honest. If you watch the four clips above, do you agree they are more aligned than on most other matters? (in honor of @jack):
(for the answer to the question by the way, clip 1 is R - @RepArmstrongND, 2 is D - @RepAnnaEshoo, 3 is R - @RepKinzinger, 4 is D - @FrankPallone... point being, and I’ve seen this globally, these are multiparty concerns. Hence 49 state AGs antitrust lawsuits of GOOG/Facebook.

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25 Mar
Hearing involving CEOs of Facebook and Google starting now. Livestream here (or use cspan here (c-span.org/video/?510053-…) in U.S. if watching Congress grill CEO of Google on issues caused by YouTube on YouTube is understandably awkward to you). /1 energycommerce.house.gov/committee-acti…
here is a link to their written testimonies published last night. I'll be threading here starting around 12:45pm once they get past opening statements. /2
ok, I'm here. Just in time for @RepJeffDuncan's point of order on why the witnesses aren't being sworn in and their ability to also ask questions of counsel during the sessions. Next @USRepMikeDoyle gets straight to heart of the matter. /3
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25 Mar
OK, I’ve read written testimony for CEOs of Twitter, Facebook and Google. Most remarkable, as @zamaan_qureshi noted, Zuckerberg elects to not discuss Facebook’s moves or role around January 6th. This will prove to be a bad way to start to hearing; Google has an entire section.
Zuckerberg spends a lot of time on fact-checking process. It’s too in the weeds for hearing but a reminder how Facebook gives Russia Today and other state actors the benefit of doubt over hundreds of legitimate local news organizations. digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2020/11/1…
Also BREAKING: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg supports new regulations for platform liability, privacy, data portability, and elections. All of them!
As long as he gets to write them. Pretty please. 🤦🏽‍♀️
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24 Mar
This German antitrust hearing appeal tmw frightens Facebook (and Google) as it combines antitrust enforcement with data protection. Canada MP @beynate smartly asked FB about it in 2019. Watch the discomfort. ps @davidcicilline gets it, new FTC nominee @linamkhan gets it, too.
Here is the release from German Federal Cartel Office explaining events up until hearing. bundeskartellamt.de/SharedDocs/Mel…
I picked the wrong month to not know German as this looks to be a fabulous set of resources from a class that has been focused on the Facebook German Cartel Office case.
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23 Mar
For Thursday’s hearing with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, Congress is going to need to choose their questions between insurrection, genocide, sex trafficking, prior false testimony, antitrust and privacy abuses.
Do I have this right?
And to be clear, I’m in no way discounting any other issues. I still argue most of these issues are downstream from the intersection of data policy and antitrust. It’s bipartisan, too. Fix that and other issues will improve.
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23 Mar
Quite a report out this morning: “Facebook was a significant catalyst in creating the conditions that swept America down the dark path from election to insurrection.” avaazimages.avaaz.org/facebook_elect…
“An additional problem is that Facebook’s AI is not fit for purpose... Facebook’s detection systems need to be made much more sophisticated to prevent misinformation going viral.”
“American voters were pummeled online every step of the 2020 election cycle, with viral false and misleading info about voter fraud and election rigging...Facebook and its algorithm were one of the lead culprits.”
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21 Mar
Nice to see this. After having watched a few dozen hearings here, Canada, UK, Ireland even Singapore, I have a few thoughts of course. A lot of really great topics here. /1 justsecurity.org/75439/question…
One ask, we do need to stop repeating the meme of the Hatch question 3yrs ago. All parties globally are much more sophisticated, hearings have been a lot smarter. It plays into their hands to repeat it and reinforces the public belief Facebook and Google are invincible. /2
Again, lots of good questions here. Some are too long for a hearing of this size better for Questions for Record - especially if Congress demands actual answers. Here are some of my favorites. /3
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