When dead children are just the price of doing business, Zuckerberg’s apology is empty | Carole Cadwalladr

The Facebook boss faced the parents of victims in Senate hearings, but until legislators finally stand up to social media giants, nothing will change

I don't generally approve of blood sports but I'm happy to make an exception for the hunting and baiting of Silicon Valley executives in a congressional committee room. But then I like expensive, pointless spectacles. And waterboarding tech CEOs in Congress is right up there with firework displays, a brief, thrillingly meaningless sensation on the retina and then darkness.

Last week's grilling of Mark Zuckerberg and his fellow Silicon Valley Ubermenschen was a classic of the genre: front pages, headlines, and a genuinely stand-out moment of awkwardness in which he was forced to facevictims for the first time ever and apologise: stricken parents holding the photographs of their dead children lost to cyberbullying and sexual exploitation onhis platform.