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"Mark Zuckerberg’s
testimonies before Congress: how and where to watch
The Facebook CEO is headed
to Washington.
(By Emily Stewart and Jen
Kirby)
The Facebook founder and
CEO will testify at a joint hearing before the Senate
Judiciary and Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees
on Tuesday, April 10 at 2:15 pm Eastern time. He’ll
be back on Capitol Hill the following day for another hearing before
the House Energy and Commerce Committee on Wednesday, April
11, at 10 am ET.
... The appearance comes in the wake of the Cambridge
Analytica scandal that left the information of tens of millions
of Facebook users exposed and amid enduring questions about how
Russia and other groups have used the platform to influence US
politics.
Sen.
Chuck Grassley (R-IA), chair of the Senate Judiciary
Committee, said in a statement that the hearing “will
explore approaches to privacy that satisfy consumer expectations
while encouraging innovation.”
Sen. John Thune (R-SD), chair of the
Commerce committee, said in a statement that lawmakers will
ask Zuckerberg for his vision on “addressing problems that have
generated significant concern about Facebook’s role in our
democracy, bad actors using the platform, and user privacy.”
Zuckerberg
will probably get grilled with many of the same questions the next
day on the House side...
... Facebook
and Zuckerberg have come under harsh scrutiny following revelations
that Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics firm used by the
Trump campaign in the 2016 election, secretly harvested personal data
from 87 million of its users...
Zuckerberg,
33, has since spoken to multiple media outlets about the scandal and
questions around Facebook’s handling of its users’ data and
information. In tandem, he and the Facebook team are also working to
address continued questions over its role in facilitating Russian
meddling in the 2016 election.
... Vox’s
Ezra Klein spoke with Zuckerberg in a recent podcast, in which
the tech executive admitted the company still has a lot of work to
do.
“I think we will dig through this hole, but it will take a few
years,” Zuckerberg said. “I wish I could solve all these issues
in three months or six months, but I just think the reality is that
solving some of these questions is just going to take a longer period
of time.”
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You can read more here
Plus, "9 things to know about
Facebook privacy and Cambridge Analytica" here
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Personal
Commentary ~
I
am of the mind that, more right now than ever, the American People have to put all of their
concerns about freedom of information, privacy and truth “in
advertising,” so to speak, on the table and work through where
we've been, where we are and where we want to be within the context
of the 21st Century and our American values and principles
as codified in the U.S. Constitution.
I
am not of the mind that a Putin-installed Trump administration,
coupled with a GOP majority Congress that does not care our
sovereignty was invaded by Russia to put him in the Oval Office per a preponderance of the evidence, is who I trust to do the job.
In
fact, to put it right out there –
it seems to me a Trump-led
Federal Communications Commission hell-bent on accommodating big
business by deregulating relevant privacy and net
neutrality regulations
(& a potential media monopoly via Sinclair
Broadcasting, BTW)
is the proverbial canary in the mine – signaling
that a social-media-silenced-People may very well serve to insure
GOP, authoritarian rule for years to come.
At
any rate, #DistrustAndVerify is what I always say!
Please find a December
2014 article that may be helpful in putting Zuckerberg's appearance on
The Hill this week into perspective here
Also, just to provide a
flavor of who might really be interested in controlling the Internet,
Sen. Markey provides a (published March 8, 2017) 5:37 minute snippet of his concerns regarding
“Net Neutrality, Broadband Privacy at FCC Oversight Hearing” here
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→ Direct sources for Democrats:
* ( Personal favored and most informative follows are shared here with the understanding that readers will always apply their own critical thinking to any information provided anywhere by anyone. #StrongerTogether does not share sources of information lightly but -- no one is perfect! -- so always #DistrustAndVerify I am using a star rating that is strictly based on my situational experience with the work of the media personality specifically in relation to issues of interest to me. )
The Democratic Party Website
Also
C-SPAN (a good place for speeches & hearings direct source (s))
→ Fact checking organizations courtesy of the Society of Professional Journalists
in alphabetical order...
→ Some of my favorite, most informative
follows on Twitter include:
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ US Intelligence | Author | Navy Senior Chief | NBC/MSNBC
⭐⭐⭐ Federal Government Operations | Vanity Fair | Newsweek | MSNBC Contributor | Author
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Voting Rights/Voter Suppression | Author | Mother Jones
→ Some of the most credible media -- at the moment:
📰📰📰 Mother Jones
→ Some of the most credible Talking Heads -- at the moment -- and their Twitter handles:
( 📎 Interesting to note: Wallace, a former Republican (or an inactive Republican I believe she calls herself) is new to the job but for right now she has clearly put country over party and her work on Trump GOP has been credible, IMO... )
...for Networking for Democrats today!
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g. (Unapologetic Democrat)
📎 Note: I rarely get involved in primary races -- outside of those in my own area. And, unless there is a glaring reason that can not be ignored, I support Democratic Party nominees winning in general elections.
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(Linked) "...is our 2016 platform...a declaration of how we plan to move America forward. Democrats believe that cooperation is better than conflict, unity is better than division, empowerment is better than resentment, and bridges are better than walls.
It’s a simple but powerful idea: We are stronger together."
Eleanor Roosevelt with female reporters
at her first White House press conference
on March 6, 1933
“ … At first Eleanor Roosevelt adhered to her own...political topics. She told about her daily schedules, discussed the prints on the White House Walls, and shared low-cost menus for Depression-era households. But reporters pressed the First Lady for more news on public policy, and the press conference sessions soon broadened their scope. As early as April 1933 Eleanor Roosevelt provided a political scoop; she announced that beer would be served in the White House once Prohibition ended. By the end of 1933, according to UP reporter Ruby Black, the First Lady had defended low cost housing, the subsistence homestead program, equal pay for equal work, old age pensions, and the minimum wage. “Tea Pouring Items Give Way to Big News,” Black declared. “No newspaperwoman could have asked for better luck,” reporter Bess Furman recalled. The First Lady, she wrote, “conducts classes on scores of subjects, always seeing beyond her immediate hearers to ‘the women of the country.’” … “ ( You can read more here )
( #its2018now )
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