Colour me fucking shocked!

One Senator even coquettishly mentioned his grandson by name, as if getting his name recorded on the official record during the "Facebook" hearing was appropriate. Gag. There are times I really miss Pres. Gore.

We expected anything other than this?

...rule limit (5 min) is bad during many hearings. I don't think he spoke much at all... the questioners decided to make "statements" instead. Also, most of them were obviously not familiar with social media - I don't think they've ever used Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube, etc...

and that they depend on community flagging to stop them."

So not only are we the "product" to be bought and sold on their whims, we are required to do the work for them. And if it all goes south then I guess we did not work hard enough?

The most insidious thing the corporate world has done is shift responsibility down to the consumer.

They disagree with the supportive evidence you provide, but themselves don't provide proof that the account is not fake, and then tell you to simply block the account.

They know very well that the consumers who try, in good faith, to help weed out bots and fake accounts, will give up eventually.

paraphrasing -- "we asked CA to delete the data, they said they did, and we trusted their answer".

So, see, facebook was a victim too, they were lied to by CA!

I don't buy it for a millisecond. That data *is* facebook's entire value. I'm betting facebook had a team of attorneys who specialzed in intellectual property and knew that CA was suspicious and may have recommended an audit. But why would facebook mgmt not audit CA bac at that time as Zuckerberg says they now know they should have?

The answer could be you knew that CA holding that data would inevitibly lead to more advertising revenue for facebook, even if the advertising was shady, misguided, whatever.

I'm also betting that CA allowed easy access to the data for the Russian hackers. Allowing the hackers access means the hackers could very specifically target eliminating democratic voters from databased in key states. And by CA allowing that to happen, CA could take public credit for the Trump win, which leads to more business for CA.

Except CA got caught...

There is a potential insidious money trail linking all this together...

That's what we learned from the 60 Minutes piece. All three parties physically, ideologically and financially came together to win the election for Trump/Russia via CA's FB supplied psychograhics (psychological warfare) on Americans. Did this even come up during this superficial show hearing?