Senator Mazie Hirono brings up Immiration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) and its interest in using social media data to profile immigrants. She asks: Does Facebook intent to cooperate with this ‘extreme vetting’ process to help Ice target people for deporation?
Zuck says that Facebook would not proactively cooperate with Ice, but does comply with legal requests for information.
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10.20pm BST22:20
Flake: Do you believe Russia or China have harvested Facebook data and have profiles on users?
Zuck: We have kicked off an investigation. “I imagine we’ll find some things.” Says they don’t have specific knowledge of efforts by other nation states but says they assume other countries will try to abuse the system.
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10.18pm BST22:18
Senator Jeff Flake: What are you doing to prevent oppressive governments from going after dissenters?
Zuckerberg: We’re hiring more people who speak more languages, working with civil society groups to identify leaders of hate speech, and making product changes for some countries.
These product changes came up earlier in response to Leahy’s questions about Myanmar, but Zuck didn’t specify what they were. Now he says they may have to do with news literacy and fact checking.
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10.15pm BST22:15
Markey is now asking Zuckerberg to support a privacy bill of rights for children.
Zuck: We already do stuff. [paraphrase]
Markey: I’m talking about a law... Do you believe we need a law to protect children?
Zuck: I’m not sure we need a law.
Markey: I couldn’t disagree more.
Markey says we’re leaving children vulnerable to “rapacious” exploiters of their information.
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10.13pm BST22:13
The Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr, who broke the revelations about Cambridge Analytica’s use of Facebook data, points out that Facebook’s stock has soared during Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony ...
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10.12pm BST22:12
Senator Edward Markey: Would your support a law that says Facebook and and any other company that gathers information has to get affirmative permission before it can be reused for other purposes?
Zuckerberg: In general I think that idea is right.
Markey: But would you support legislation?
Zuckerberg: As a principle, yes, but the details matter a lot.
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10.10pm BST22:10
Sasse: Do you hire consultants to tell you how to tap into dopamine feedback loops to keep people addicted?
Zuckerberg: No.
Sasse didn’t ask whether they hire experts in the field directly.
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10.09pm BST22:09
Sasse is now talking about social media addiction. As a dad, do you worry about social media addition as a worry for American’s teens?
Zuck: “This is certainly something that I think any parent thinks about – how much do you want to your kids to use technology.”
Zuck says that if you’re using the internet to engage with other people, it’s good, but if you’re using the internet to passively consume content, it’s not that good.
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10.07pm BST22:07
Sasse is concerned that Facebook’s hate speech guidelines are based on feelings of unsafety and offense, which he says could result in the censorship of anti-abortion advocates not being allowed to speak against abortion.
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10.05pm BST22:05
Senator Ben Sasse: The conceptual line between mere tech company and content company is difficult.
“Facebook may decide it needs to police a whole bunch of speech that I think America may be better off not having a single company police... Can you define hate speech?”
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10.04pm BST22:04
Coons: “Why do you shift the burden to users to flag inappropriate content and get it taken down?”
Zuckerberg points out that the company started in a dorm room with few resources, a response that rings hollow 2,000,000,000 users and hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue later.
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10.02pm BST22:02
Coons: “At the end of the day, policies aren’t worth the paper they’re written on if Facebook doesn’t follow them.”
Coons mentions that he found accounts impersonating him just this morning, and only got them taken down immediately because he’s a senator.
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