Congress tried to crack Zuckerberg – but Facebook still has all the power
by Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#3ME3W)
Analysis: even as senators challenged the social media CEO, they were directing listeners to the social network he created
If there was one moment that crystallized the absurdity of Tuesday's marathon Senate grilling of Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, it was the tweets.
Two tweets, one each from Senators Richard Blumenthal and Kamala Harris, urged their constituents to follow a link to their own Facebook pages, where they were streaming Facebook Live video of the proceedings on Capitol Hill.
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