Micah Grimes, head of social right here at NBC information, observed that Mark Zuckerberg's testimony has cracked into Facebooks' trending topics.

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JONATHAN ALLEN3 DAYS in the past
final status update
4 hours and fifty four minutes after he started out testifying, Zuckerberg is completed. He become contrite, and he neither agreed to nor objected to maximum of the senators’ hints, puppy payments and mild condemnations. As many senators referred to, law should virtually be a great aspect for fb — as could a scarcity of latest regulation. however all in all, Zuckerberg emerged unscathed.

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ANNA BRAND3 DAYS in the past
Zuckerberg notes photographed with bulleted speakme factors
Zuckerberg's notes all through the hearing blanketed talking factors round how to protect facebook, election integrity, and, of path, Cambridge Analytica.

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An aide to fb CEO Mark Zuckerberg closes a binder of notes left at the desk as Zuckerberg takes a brief spoil from testifying before a joint listening to of the trade and Judiciary Committees on Capitol Hill in Washington on April 10, 2018, approximately the use of fb records to goal American citizens within the 2016 election. Andrew Harnik / AP
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JONATHAN ALLEN3 DAYS ago
Did fb have the proper incentives?
Sen. Maggie Hassan, D-N.H., informed Zuckerberg she desires to look at developing monetary consequences for companies that don’t defend consumers’ private information.

“there may be little incentive, whether or not it’s facebook or Equifax, to in reality be aggressive in shielding customer privacy,” stated Hassan. “We’ve heard apologies but there may be no financial incentive.” Zuckerberg said he’d sit up for a dialogue of monetary consequences, but he took issue with the concept that facebook hasn’t felt pain.

“This episode has certainly hurt us,” he stated.

even as the business enterprise’s inventory soared 4.five percent Tuesday as Zuckerberg testified, its last rate of $a hundred sixty five.04 in step with share became down from $193.09 on February 1.

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JONATHAN ALLEN3 DAYS ago
'Your person settlement sucks' and other gemstones from Sen. Kennedy
In his surprisingly short time inside the Senate, John Kennedy, R-los angeles., has evolved a popularity for delivering the nice one-liners within the chamber. though he had to wait 4 hours to impeach Zuckerberg Tuesday, he turned into ready along with his quote system. right here are the top five costs from Kennedy.

1. "Your person agreement sucks."

2. "The purpose of that consumer agreement is to cowl facebook's rear stop."

three. "I don’t want to alter facebook, but my God, i'm able to."

1. "There are a few impurities inside the fb punch bowl."

2. And, he advised the social community titan, "I feel like we’re no longer connecting."

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JASON ABBRUZZESE3 DAYS in the past
Sen. Harris drills down on why facebook didn't inform customers about Cambridge Analytica
Sen. Kamala Harris, D-CA, asks a totally pointed query and does not let Zuckerberg steer clear of — did facebook speak notifying its users that their information were taken via a researcher that worked Cambridge Analytica whilst the enterprise discovered out approximately the information's misuse?

"Senator, in retrospect, we sincerely view it as a mistake that we didn't inform humans and we did that based totally on false facts that the case was closed and the statistics had been deleted," Zuckerberg said.

Sen. Harris speedy interjected, "so, there was a choice made on that basis not to inform the customers, is that correct?"

"it's my information, sure. And knowing what we understand now, there may be a lot of factors we need to have finished differently," Zuckerberg said.

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ANNA BRAND3 DAYS ago
we're in our remaining destroy of the day
we're in the final stretch for the nighttime! After the quick ruin, there will be thirteen remaining senators.

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JASON ABBRUZZESE3 DAYS in the past
subsequently, someone asks if facebook is spying on us through cellphone microphones
the whole thing today has been a precursor to this.

Sen. Gary Peters, D-MI, asks whether fb is being attentive to humans's conversations via microphones in their smartphones. that is an incredible query because there's a group of those who fervently believe that facebook is always being attentive to us and then the use of that facts to target advertisements.

This has been a walking conspiracy theory that Mark Zuckerberg has now spoke back to.

Zuckerberg says that the agency does now not.

And simply, isn't it greater marvelous that fb can target advertisements so properly that people think all their conversations are being listened to?

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JASON ABBRUZZESE3 DAYS ago
fb does delete your statistics
Zuckerberg instructed Sen. Heller, R-N.V., that facebook does delete a consumer's facts in the event that they absolutely cancel their account. however he did not know off the top of his head how lengthy facebook hangs out to a user's records earlier than deleting it.

facebook says it may absorb to ninety days for the organisation to delete a user's statistics after they delete their account: "it is able to take up to ninety days from the beginning of the deletion method to delete all the matters you have published, like your snap shots, reputation updates or other facts stored in backup systems. while we are deleting this facts, it's miles inaccessible to other humans using facebook."

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JONATHAN ALLEN3 DAYS ago
No ideal solution on election protection
Democratic senators have requested Zuckerberg over and over what he plans to do to make sure facebook doesn’t get used to improperly have an impact on elections, and he says that’s a pinnacle precedence heading into the 2018 midterms in November.

He wants to make it “a great deal more difficult in the future” for outdoor actors to impropoerly intrude in elections.but, he stated, he can’t guarantees that pictures unfold in 2016 received’t appear on facebook again.

“i can’t assure that,” he stated. “I don’t suppose it might be a realistic expectation … that we’re going to have zero amount of that and that we’re going to be a hundred percentage a hit” at preventing it.

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Why Zuckerberg has had a piece of an area at times
MSNBC's Kasie Hunt notes that it have become quite obtrusive within the first 1/2 of the hearing that some of the questions asked via senators in their 60s and 70s do not quite recognize the fundamentals of facebook generation, which has left Zuckerberg in a prime spot to fireplace back or divert